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from end of coll to apex, leaving a wedge-shaped chocolate patch 

 between them from termen below apex intersected by an ochreous 

 streak below vein 7 ; a hue black streak on inner margin from 

 before middle to torn us ; some grey suffusion in cell ; orbicular and 

 reniform large, with rufous centres and grey anuuli defined by 

 black except above, the former round, the latter with its upper ex- 

 tremity produced and its lower part forming a lobe below the cell ; 

 a blackish streak along vein 4 and short black streaks in the inter- 

 spaces below costa towards apex ; cilia chequered ochreous and 

 rufous mixed with some blackish. Hind wing dark fuscous brown, 

 the cilia ochreous mixed with fuscous ; the underside irrorated with 

 some yellowish white especially on costal area. 



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Genus MATOPO. 



Type. 



Matopo, Dist. A. M. N. H. (7) i. p. 227 (1898) typica. 



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

 about to middle of Irons and moderately scaled, the 3rd short, porrect ; irons 

 i with large rounded prominence with corneous plate below it; eyes large, 

 round; antennai of male typically bipectinate with rather long branches, the 

 apex simple; thorax clothed chiefly with scales, the pro- and metathorax with 

 spreading crests; tibias moderately fringed with hair; abdomen with dorsal 

 crest at base only. Fore wing with the apex rounded, the termen evenly 

 curved and not crenulate; veins 3 and 5 from near angle of cell ; 6 from upper 

 angle; 9 from 10 anastomosing with 8 to form theareole; 11 from cell. Hind 

 wing with veins 3, 4 from angle of cell ; 5 obsolescent from just below middle 

 of discocellulars ; 0, 7 from upper angle; 8 anastomosing with the cell near 

 base only. 



Sect. I. Antennas of male bipectinate with rather long branches, the apex 

 simple, of female with shorter branches. 



A. Fore wing with the reniform figure-of-eight shaped and 



interrupted at midiile nigrivittata. 



B. Fore wing with the reniform lunulate. 



a. Fore wing with the orbicular extremely elongate and 



narrow. 



a}. Fore wing with the postmedial line angled inwards 



in submedian fold inangulata, 



b 1 . Fore wing with the postmedial line incurved in sub- 

 median interspace typica. 



b. Fore wing with the orbicular elliptical actinopkora. 



37S9. Matopo nigrivittata. (Plate CXXVI1. fig. 18.) 



Matopo nigrivittata, llmpsn. Ann. S. Afr. Mus. ii. p. 291 (1902). 



Head and tegulu? grey; palpi, frons, and antennae black-brown; 

 thorax mixed fuscous, brown and grey ; legs fuscous, the tarsi 

 ringed with white ; abdomen fuscous brown. Fore wing grey- 

 brown ; a rufous fascia through the cell to postmedial line, then 

 narrowing to termen above vein 4, with a diffused black fascia below 



