A'iO NocTi'in.ic. 



Genus ASPIDIFRONTIA. 



Type. 



Aspidifro7itia, ITinpsn. Ann. S. Afr. Mus. ii. p. 2fi9 (1902) semipallida. 



Proboscis wealc ; palpi short, oblique, fringed witli h;iir in front ; frons with 

 large disk-shaped cdrneiius prciniinence with raised rim and truncate conical 

 centre ; e3'e3 large, round ; antenna; of male ciliated ; head and thorax clotlied 

 with hair and liair-like .scales with some scales mixed, without distinct crests; 

 nbdomen with dorsal crest at base. F'ore wing with veins 3 and 5 from 

 near anqle of cell; G from upper angle; 1) frotu 10 anastomosing with 8 to 

 form the arcole : 11 from cell. Iliud wing with veins 3, 4 from angle of 

 cell; 5 obsolescent from middle of discocelliilars ; 6, 7 from upper angle ; 

 8 anastomosing with the cell near base only. 



A. Fore wing with the subterminal line interrupted by dentate 



white marks on veins 6, 4, ij, 1 radiafa. 



B. Fore wing with the subterminal line not interrupted by 



dentate white marks. 



a. Fore wing with tiie area below cell blackish semipallida. 



b. Fore wing with the area below cell not blackish. 

 a^. Fore wing with the nntemedial line dentate. 



a^. Fore wing with the antemedial line very strongly 

 angled outwards in submcdian fold ; claviform 

 absen t glaucescens. 



h^. Fore wing with the antemedial line moderately 

 angled outwards iu submcdian fold ; claviform 



p rese n t axt/lides. 



fi^. Fore wing with the antemedial line not dentate rufescens. 



1793. Aspidifrontia radiata, n, sp. (Plate XCT. fig. 4.) 



Head and thorax pale rufous mixed with black ; j)alpi and frons 

 blackish ; abdomen ochreous. Fore wing ochreous, the veins 

 streaked with black ; the area below submcdian fold suffused with 

 grey, extending to below vein 1 at middle, the lower part of coll 

 and area between veins 4 and 5 suffused with grej- ; the submcdian 

 fold with black streak, another above inner margin ; the ante- 

 medial line represented by an oblique black striga from submcdian 

 fold to vein 1 ; claviform very elongate and narrow, its upper edge 

 formed by the streaks in submedian fold ; orbicular long and 

 lanceolate, ochreous defined by black, placed on a black streak 

 extending to the reuiform which is narrow, its upper edge produced 

 and indented, with brown centre with ochreous line in it and 

 ochreous annulus defined by black ; faint traces of a dentate post- 

 medial line between veins 5 and 3 ; subterminal line represented 

 by a series of ochreous points on dentate black marks, longest 

 below costa and at middle ; veins 6, 4, 3, 1 defined by dentate 

 whitish marks ; cilia chequered fuscous and ochreous. Hind wing 

 ochreous white, the terminal area tinged with fuscous ; the underside 

 with the costal area suffused with fuscous. 



Hah. Br. E. Africa, Kikuyu (Crawshay), 1 $ type, Kibauni 

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