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wing oehreous white faintly tinged with brown: the underside 

 with the costal and terminal areas irrorated with reddish brown, a 

 small brown discoidal spot. 



Fig. 145. — Sesamia sabulosa, $. \. 



Hub. Uganda, Mulema (Doggett), 2 J type, Ketoma (Doggett), 

 1 $ . Exp. 20 millim. 



B. Hind wing with veins 3, 4 from cell. 



a. Fore wing suffused with rufous rufescens. 



h. Fore wing not suffused with rufous epu?ictifera. 



47G1. Sesamia rufescens, n. sp. (Plate CXLIV. fig. 22. ) 



Head and thorax oehreous tinged with bright rufous ; palpi 

 except at tips and sides of irons blackish ; abdomen greyish suffused 

 with dark brown. Fore wing oehreous suffused w r ith bright rufous, 

 especially just below the cell and on inner half of terminal area, 

 the median nervure and veins of terminal area defined on each side 

 by dark streaks ; cilia black-brown. Hind wing whitish tinged 

 with brown. 



Hab. Natal, Durban {Leigh, Clark), 4 tf , 1 $ type. Exp. 

 ;j2 millim. 



4762. Sesamia epunctifera. 

 Sesamia epunctifera, Hmpsn. Ann. S. Afr. Mus. ii. p. 298 (1902). 



Head and thorax oehreous mixed with dark brown ; palpi 

 with the 2nd joint blackish above ; abdomen white irrorated with 



Fig. 146. — Sesamia epunctifera, tf . \. 



dark brown. Fore wing oehreous white thickly irrorated with bla ek- 

 brown, the veins with pale streaks ; usually with black antemedial 

 point in submedian fold, discoidal point and point in discal fold 

 beyond the cell ; a terminal series of rather lunulate black points; 

 cilia white mixed with brown and with slight brown line at middle. 



