CYTOTHYMIA. 



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to a trilobate plate, a corneous plate below it ; eyes large, round ; antennae of 

 male minutely ciliated ; thorax smoothly clothed with scales and without 

 crests; tibiae smoothly scaled ; abdomen without crests. Fore wing with the 

 apex rounded, the termen evenly curved and hardly crenulate ; veins 3 and ;"> 

 from near angle of cell ; 6 from upper angle ; 9 from 10 anastomosing with 8 

 to form the areole ; 11 from cell. Hind wing with veins 3, 4 from angle of 

 cell; 5 obsolescent from below middle of diseocellulars ; 6, 7 from upper 

 angle; S anastomosing with the cell near base onlv. 



4822. Cytothymia obsita. 



Metoptria obsita, Feld. Reis. Nov. pi. 108. f. 36 (1874). 



3- Head and thorax ochreous mixed with rufous; abdomen 

 ochreous ; pectus, legs, and ventral surface of abdomen tinged with, 

 rufous and irrorated with brown. Fore wing ochreous irrorated with 

 brown; traces of a waved antemedial line with more distinct spot 

 on costa and striga from inner margin ; traces of a round orbicular 

 stigma with grey point in centre; reniform small, greyish with 

 faint ochreous annulus, constricted at middle and expanding below, 

 two brown points above it on costa ; an oblique rufous band from 



Fig. 169. — Cytothymia obsita, ^ 



lower angle of cell to inner margin on inner side of postmedial line, 

 which is rufous defiued by ochreous on outer side, with brown point 

 at costa, excurved to vein 4, then incurved ; some rufous suffusion 

 on costal area before (he strong ochreous subterminal Hue, which is 

 slightly excurved below vein 7, then oblique and expanding at 

 tornus ; terminal area bright rufous ; cilia greyish and rufous at 

 base with series of slight dark spots, ochreous at tips with slight 

 dark spots. Hind wing ochreous irrorated with brown, the terminal 

 area tinged with rufous; a faint curved postmedial line and diffused 

 brown subterminal band; cilia brown at base, ochreous at tips. 

 Underside of fore wing reddish yellow irrorated with brown, the 

 whole disk suffused with brown leaving a pale discoidal spot ; hind 

 wing yellow irrorated with brown, a diffused brown postmedial 

 band. 



2 . Fore wing with the medial band extending to costa ; hind 

 wing with more prominent subterminal and terminal brown bands. 



Hub. C. Colony, Simons Town {de la Garde), 2 rf, 2 $, Cape 

 Town {Trimen), 3 <$ , 3 $ . Exp. 26-30 millim. 



