MICRAGEOXIS. 151 



with black medial band ; prothoracic crest with black band ; 

 tegulae rufous ; tibiae and tarsi black with ochreous rings ; abdomen 

 greyish ochreous. Fore wing pale blue-grey with slight black 

 irroration ; the costal area suffused with rufous to near apex ; the 

 subbasal line indistinct, double, waved from costa to submedian 

 fold ; antemedial line indistinct double, waved ; claviform re- 

 presented by a black point at its extremity ; orbicular and reniform 

 small, with black centres and pale annuli detined by black, the 

 former round ; an oblique waved ferruginous line from lower angle 

 of cell to inner margin ; the postmedial line indistinct, double, 

 dentate, and produced to a series of points on the veins, bent 

 outwards below costa, excurved to vein 4, then incurved ; some pale 

 points on costa towards apex ; the subterminal line defined by the 

 area beyond it being rufous, angled outwards at vein 7, excurved at 

 middle and bent outwards to torn us ; a termijial series of black 

 points ; cilia chequered rufous and fuscous. Hind wing pure 

 white, with fine dark punctiform terminal line ; the iinderside with 

 the costal area ochreous irrorated with brown, a slight discoidal 

 point and curved postmedial series. 



Hah. Br. E, Africa, Athi E, (Baton), -1 c? , 1 $ type. 

 Kxy. 28-30 millim. 



266. Micragrotis puncticostata. (Plate LIX. tig. 32.) 

 Affrofis jMaiciirosta/a, Hmpsn. Ann. S. Afr. Mus. ii. p. 263 (1902). 



(^ . Head and thorax black mixed with some grey ; metathorax 

 more or less red-brown ; frons with deep black bar above ; tegulae 

 with black medial line ; tarsi with pale rings ; abdomen ochreous 

 irrorated with fuscous. Fore wing grey, with slight dark irroration 

 and blackish streaks on the veins ; the costal area suffused with 

 rufous and black to the subterminal line ; a diffused rufous patch 

 on base of inner area ; the subbasal line represented by indistinct 

 double striae from costa ; the antemedial line' indistinct, double, 

 waved and angled inwards on the veins ; claviform small, slightly 

 defined by black ; orbicular and reniform small, with black centres 

 and pale annuli defined by black, the former round ; the post- 

 medial line dentate and produced to a series of black and white 

 points on the veins, bent outwards below costa, excurved to vein 4, 

 then incurved ; a series of points on costa towards apex ; the 

 subterminal line pale, defined by the area beyond it being reddish 

 brown, angled outwards at vein 7 and somewhat dentate at 

 veins 3, 4 ; a fine black terminal line ; cilia chequered rufous and 

 black. Hind wing white ; the costal area irrorated with fuscous, a 

 discoidal spot and postmedial series of short streaks on the veins. 



5 . Fore wing rather more sufiused with brown ; hind wing 

 tinged with ochreous. 



Hah. Natal, Estcourt (//n<c7uH5o/0, 1 c? , 1 5 type ; Basutoland, 

 ^laseru {Craivshai/), 2 J . Eo-'^j. 3U millim. 



