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out to a strong angle just below cell, the 2ii(l angled outwards 

 to or to close to lower angle of cell, tlie 3rd strongly cxcurvod from 

 below costa to vein 3, then incurved, sometimes quite obsolete ; 

 three to tive black points on each side of discocellulars ; cilia orange. 

 Hind wing orange-yellow ; a large black discoidal spot and some- 

 times some discoidal spots or points. Underside of fore wing suffused 

 Avith orange or rarely crimson to the postmedial line ; a large black 

 discoidal lunule ; hind wing with the costal area whitish, usually 

 with ante- and postmedial black spots. 



Hah. Transvaal, Potchefstroom, 1 cJ , 1 $ {Ross); Natal (G^w^tn- 

 zhis), 3 d , 1 $ , Malvern {Marshall), 1 5 , Karkloof {Marshall), 

 3 d" ; C. Colony, Transkei {Miss^ F. Barrett), 1 c5' , 1 $ , Uitenhage 

 {S. D. Banistow), 1 S , {Drege) 1 5 ? fype delineata, {Dr. Smith) 1 $ . 

 Kvj)., (S 5G, ? 70 millim. 



Genus TURUPTIANA. 



Type. 



Tuniptiana, Wlk. Char. Lep. Het. p. 19 (1869) obUqiia. 



Sallcsa, Feld. Reis. Nov. p. 8 (1874) obliqua. 



Proboscis small ; palpi porrect, clothed with Ljng hair and reaching as far 

 as the frontal tuft ; tibi;s with the spurs short, mid tibire with the medial spurs 

 absent. Fore wing with vein 3 from near angle of cell; 4, 5 from angle; tJ 

 from upper angle ; 7, 8, 9 stalked ; 10, 11 from cell. Hind wing with vela 3 

 from close to angle of cell ; 4, 5 from angle ; 6, 7 from upper angle ; 8 from 

 middle of cell. 



Sect. I. Antennae of male bipectinate with moderate branches. 



A. Fore wing with oblique brown fascia from or from below 



middle of costa to tornus. 



a. Fore wing without brown costal fascia lacipea. 



h. Fore wing with brown costal fascia ohliqua. 



B. Fore wing without oblique brown fascia ncurophijUa. 



1992. Turuptiana lacipea. 



Sallcea lacipea, Druce, A. M. N. H. (0) v. p. 215 (1890) ; id. Biol. Oentr.- 

 Am., Het. ii. p. 391, pi. 77. ff. 6, 7 ; Kirby, Cat. Het. p. 909. 



S • Head white ; palpi, antennas, tegula), and thorax dark brown ; 

 patagia white, edged with brown above ; pectus orange ; tibia) and 

 tarsi grey-brown ; abdomen orange, witli large dorsal l)Iack-brown 

 patch ; wings white. Fore wing with the costal edge often brown 

 towards base : an oblique brown fascia from below subcostal nervure 

 just beyond middle of cell to tornus, where it joins a fascia on inner 

 margin near base ; cilia usually brown above middle. Hind wing 

 with more or less developed brown patch on terminal half of inner 

 area extending up to vein 3. 



2 . Abdomen with dorsal brown bands on terminal segments ; 

 fore wing wholly white ; hind wing with sliglit traces of brown at 

 tornus. 



J/ab. Gttatkmala {Rodriguez), 4 c? , 1 2 type, tJodmau-lSalvin 

 Coll. E.vp., (S 48, $ 50 millim. 



