386 



noctuidj:. 



25()<!. Hypotype scotomista. 



PoUa fcotomisia, Ilnipsii. Ann. S. Afr. :Mus. ii. p. 278 (1902). 



cf . Head nnfl thorax clothed with wliito and black-hrown scales; 

 tarsi blackish with pale rings ; abdomen ocbreous white dorsally 

 suffused with fuscous. Fore wing; rather narrow, white, thickly 

 irrorated with black-brown : subbasal line represented by a white 

 point on costa ; antemedial line very indistinct, curved, with 

 white point at costa ; claviform re2)rcsented by a slight white 

 mark ; orbicular a small white ocellus ; reniform large, indistinctly 

 defined, with whitish annulus ; traces of a dark medial shade ; 

 postmedial line with white point at costa, bent outwards below 

 costa, then minutely dentate, indistinct, excurved to vein 4, then 



Fig. 128. — Hypotype xoiomista, <$ . 



incurved ; subterminal line very indistinct, whitish defined by 

 fuscous on inner side, somewhat dentate at veins 7, 6 and excurved 

 at middle ; a terminal series of small black lunules ; cilia chetjuered 

 fuscous and white. Hind wing ochroous whitish tinged with brown 

 especially on terminal area ; cilia white ; the underside white with 

 slight dark streak in cell and discoidal spot, a sinuous postmedial 

 line and some brown irroration on terminal area. 



2 . Fore wing broader ; hind wing nearly uniformly suffused 

 with fuscous and withoiit markings on underside. 



J/ab. X.iT,vL, Coast belt ; Catk Colony, Kokstad {Mrs. Prinijli'), 

 1 2 , Cape Town, 1 <S type. Exp. 42-48 millim. 



Genus BRYOMIMA. 

 jDryomima, Stand. Iris, xii. p. 357 (1899) 



Type 

 carducha. 



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

 with hair, tlie 3rd short ; frons sniootli ; eyes large, rounded ; antenna; of male 

 ciliated or almost simple; head and tliorax clothed willi hair and a tew scales 

 mixed, without distinct crests; tibia' fringed with long hair on outer side; 

 abdomen with dorsal crest at base only. Fore wing with the termen obliquely 

 cm-ved ; veins 3 and a from near anjjie of cell ; from upper angle ; 9 from 1() 

 anastomosing witii 8 to form the areoie ; 11 from cell. Hind wing with veins 

 3, 4 from angle of cell ; 5 obsolescent from middle of discocellulars ; 0, 7 from 

 upper angle; 8 anastomosing with the cell near base only. 



