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antemedial line with black points at the veins on its inner side ; 

 orbicular extremely indistinct ; reuiform indistinctly defined by 

 blackish and with a blackish bar before it ; the postmedial line 

 bent outwards below costa, then indistinct, dentate, and produced 

 to points on the veins ; some pale poiuts on costa towards apex 

 and a black patch before the very indistinct subterminal line ; 

 a terminal scries of black points ; cilia blackish, with a pale line 

 through them. Hind wing semihj^aline white ; the costal area 

 tinged with fuscous towards apex, some dark strigse on termen ; the 

 underside with the costal area irrorated with brown ; a dark discoidal 

 point and three postmedial points on the veins towards costa. 



Hah. Br. E. Afkica, Machakos (Craivshui/), 1 J type. Exj). 

 32 millim. 



978. Lycophotia perirrorata. (Plate LXXV. fig. 16.) 

 Agrofis pcrirroi-ata, Hmpsn. Ann. S. Afr. Mus. ii. p. 262 (1902). 



Head and thorax pale ochreous mixed with black ; palpi blackish 

 at sides ; tarsi blackish with pale ritigs ; abdomen ochreous irrorated 

 with fuscous, the anal tuft with a fulvous tinge. Fore wing ochreous 

 grey, very thickly irrorated with black ; the costa with some 

 blackish patches ; traces of a pale waved subbasal line from costa 

 to submedian fold; an indistinct waved dark antemedial line; 

 claviform represented by a black point at its extremity ; orbicular 

 and reniform blackish with grey annuli defined by black, the former 

 ratlier small, round ; the posrmedial line bent outwards below 

 costa, then represented by points on the veins, excurved to vein 4, 

 then oblique ; some pale points on costa towards apex ; the sub- 

 terminal line only defined by blackish patches on its inner side at 

 costa and middle ; a terminal series of black points ; cilia ochreous 

 and black. Hind wing semihyaline ochreous white, the costal area 

 slightly irrorated with fuscous ; a terminal series of black points ; 

 the underside with the costal area irrorated with fuscous, a discoidal 

 point. 



Hah. Natal, Estcourt (HutcJiinson), 1 S type ; C Colony, Transkei 

 {Miss F. Barrett), 2 $ , Exjp. 34 millim. 



979. Lycophotia fuscirufa, n. sp. (Plate LXXV. fig. 17.) 



6 . Head and tegulse ochreous and rufous, the latter with black 

 medial line and tips ; thorax rufous sufi'used with fuscous ; tarsi 

 ringed with ochreous. Fore wing rufous suffused with fuscous 

 black except on inner area and between the postmedial and sub- 

 terminal lines from below costa ; an indistinct, waved, black 

 subbasal line from costa to submedian fold ; an oblicjue waved 

 antemedial line ; the orbicular and reniform with obscure rufous 

 annuli defined by black, the former round, a black streak in cell 

 before arid between the stigmata ; the postmedial line double, 

 minutely waved, bent outwards below costa, excurved to vein 4, 

 then incurved : the subterminal line defined by the area beyond it 

 being dark, angled outwards at vein 7 and excurved at middle ; 



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