470 



N00TUID.3C. 



SeiT. II. Auteunie of nmle cilialeil. 



1817. Grapliaiiia atavistis. 



Aspidifrontia atamtis, Huipsu. Ann. S. Afr. Mus. ii. p. 441 (1902). 



cJ . Head and thorax clothed with pale and dark brown, black 

 and white lifiir ; temiloD with black medial lino ; abdomen brownish 

 ochrcous, whitirih at base. Euro wing pule and dark brown ; tlie 

 costal area ochrcous irrorated with some dark scales to beyond 

 middle, the subcostal veins streaked with white ; the inner area to 

 submedian fold oclireous, leaving vein 1 dark and d;tiaed by pinkish 

 and white scales and an oblique dark streak above inner margin 

 except at base ; claviform a narrow elongate, black-deiined streak 

 from base ; orbicular small, diamond-shaped, ochrcous defined l)y 



Fig. 139. — (jniphania atavis/i.-!, ^J . \. 



black ; reniform with its upper part ochreous, its lower Avhitish and 

 angled inwards on median nervure to origin of vein 2; the inter- 

 spaces beyond the cell slightly streaked with black ; an ochrcous 

 subterminal mark above and below vein G and a V-shaped mark 

 between veins 3 and 4; the extremity of the veins streaked with 

 white ; a terminal series of black points. Hind wing ochreous 

 wliite, the veins tinged with brown, diffused towards termen ; a 

 terminal series of small black lunules ; the underside with the 

 costal and apical half of terminal area irrorated with fuscous ; a 

 discoidal lunule. 



Hab. C.\rE CoLOXT, Transkei (Miss F. Barrett), 1 cJ type. 

 Ex^. 34 millim. 



Genus TMETOLOPHOTA, nov. 



Type, T. propria. 



Proboscis fully developed ; palpi obliquely upturned, the 2ncl joint fringed 

 with long hair iu front ; Irons smooth ; eyes large, rounded ; antennic of male 

 serrate and fasciculate ; head and thorax clothed with hair only, the prothorax 

 with divided anterior crest; abdomen with dorsal crest at base only. Fore 

 wing rather short and broad, the termen rounded ; veins 8 and 5 from near 

 angle of cell ; (5 from upper angle ; 9 from lUana.stomosing with 8 to form the 

 areole ; 11 from cell, liind wing witii veins 3, 4 from angle of cell; 5 obso- 

 lescent from middle of discocellulars ; 6, 7 from upper angle ; 8 anastomosing 

 with the cell near ba.se only. 



A. Fore wing with the orbicular and reniform not forming a 



V-sbaped mark propria. 



B. Fore wing with the orbicular and reniform forming a V-shaped 



mark poh/gona. 



