24 KOCTUIDiE. 



pale ochreous, the terminal area suffused with fuscous ; cilia 

 "whitish. Underside whitish with some brown irroration ; both 

 wings with discoidal spot, curved punctiform postmedial line, and 

 diffused fuscous subterminal band. 



Hah. Namaqualanb, O'Okiep {Liglitfoot), 1 S ; Cape Colony 

 {Dr. Smith), 1 $ typo, Declfontoin {Col. Slogrjett), 1 $ , Eosmead, 

 1 (S • ^'i'2>. 36-38 miUim. 



Genus SCOTOGRAMMA, nov. 



' Type. 



Scoiogravima, Smith, Pr. U.S. Nat. Mus. x. p. 469 (1887) suhmarina. 



Proboscis fully developecl ; palpi oblique, the 2nd joint fringed with hair in 

 front, the 'M\\ moderate, porrect ; frons with rounded prominence with slight 

 vertical ridge and corneous plate below it ; eyes large, rounded ; antenna of 

 male ciliated ; head and thorax clothed with hair and scales, the pro- and 

 metathorax with spreading crests ; tibiae fringed with hair ; abdomen with 

 dorsal series of crests and lateral fringes of hair. Fore wing with veins 3 and 

 5 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 middle of discocelhilars ; 6, 7 from upper angle ; 

 8 anastomosing with cell near base only. 



A. Fore wing with vein 2 defined by a dentate pale mark on 



medial area. 



a. Fore wing with the subterminal line dentate to termen on 



vein 6 , armata. 



b. Fore wing with the subterminal line not dentate at 



vein 6. 

 a^. Fore wing with the inner medial area pale above and 



below vein 1 dianthi. 



h^. Fore wing with the inner medial area concolorous ... nana. 



B. Fore wing with veins 4, 3, 2 defined by pale streaks isoloma. 



C. Fore wing with vein 2 not defined by a dentate whitish 



mark on medial area, or pale streaks. 

 a. Fore wing with black streak below cell. 



a^. Fore wing with the claviform obsolete suhmedianata. 



b^. Fore wing with the claviform large, defined by black . ptilodonta. 

 h. Fore wing without black streak below cell. 



a\ Fore wing with distinct ^-mark on subterminal line 

 at veins 4, 3. 

 a*. Fore wing broad, triangular. 



a^. Fore wing grey suffused in parts with brown or 



fuscous trifolii. 



P. Fore wing grey almost wholly suS'used with 



black impolifa. 



V^. Fore wing narrow, elongate hadcnifurmia. 



A'. Fore wing without distinct ^-mark on subterminal 

 line, 

 a^. Fore wing with the postmedial line incurved below 

 vein 4. 



a^. Fore wing with the medial area whitish stigmosa. 



b^. Fore wing with the medial area not whitish. 

 a*. Fore wing with whitish patch beyond the 



claviform agrotiformis. 



h*. Fore wing without whitish patch beyond the 

 claviform. 

 a*. Fore wing with the ground-colour grey- 

 brown. 



