ASPIDIFRONTIA, 451 



1794. Aspidifrontia semipallida. 



Aspidifrontia semipallida, Hinusn. Ami. S. Afr. Mus. ii. p. 269 (1902). 



Head and thorax black ; anteniioe ochreous white ; tarsi ringed 

 with ochreous; abdomen ochreous white, the ventral surface black. 

 Fore wing black suffused with leaden grey, especially towards inner 

 margin ; the costal area ochreous white, suffused with purplish pink 

 towards costa and with black patch with three pale points on it on 

 costa before apex, on basal area the pale colour extends to just 



Fig. 126. — Aspidifrontia semipallida, rj. \, 



below the cell, on medial area to median nervure, and on post- 

 medial area to vein 5 and includes a black point at lower angle of 

 cell ; an oblique dentate postmedial line, obsolete on costal area, 

 with the area beyond it tinged with rufous to the indistinct 

 whitish subterminal line, which is bent outwards to apex and 

 excurved at middle ; a terminal series of black and white 

 points. Hind wing yellowish white, the apex slightly tinged with 

 fuscous. 



Hah. Mashonaland, Umtali {Marshall, Bobbie), 2 (5,2 $ , type. 

 Exj). 34 millim. 



1795. Aspidifrontia glaucescens, u. sp. (Plate XCI. fig. 5.) 



(S . Head and thorax black mixed with grey ; tarsi with white 

 rings ; abdomen ochreous. Fore wing violaceous grey-white ; some 

 red-brown suffusion on basal inner area; the antemedial line bUick, 

 extremely highly dentate, its teeth running out to middle of wing 

 below costa, in cell, in submedian interspace and above inner margin, 

 and to base below costa and cell, double from median nervure to 

 inner margin ; reniform obscurely defined by rufous and with 

 rufous centre; postmedial line double, black, minutely dentate and 

 produced to points on the veins, oblique from costa to discal fold 

 where it is angled, then inwardly oblique ; the costa tinged with 

 fuscous towards apex; the subterminal line whitish, defined by 

 rufous on inner side, the area beyond it blackish, rufous at apex ; 

 a series of minute white points just before termen ; cilia black, 

 with fine white line through them. Hind wing pure white. 



IJab. 1[ashonala>-d, Salisbury (Marshall, Dobbie), 4 J, type. 

 Exp. 34 millim. 



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