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Genus LOPHOTARSIA. 



Lophotarsia, Hinpsn. Ann. S. Afr. Mus. ii. p. 299 (1902) 



Type. 



och roprocta. 



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

 middle of frond and moderately fringed with scales in front, the 3rd shore ; 

 frons smooth ; eyes large, round ; antennas of male minutely ciliated ; thorax 

 clothed almost entirely with scales and without crests ; build slender ; tibiae 

 fringed with scales, the tarsi with large tuft of scales on 1st joint; abdomen 

 long and slender, without crests, the anal tuft very long. Fore wing very long 

 and narrow, the margins subparallel, the apes rectangular, the termen evenly 

 curved and not crenulate; vein 3 from before angle of cell; 4, 5 from angle 

 or very shortly stalked ; G from just beiow upper angle; 7,8, 9, 10 stalked; 

 11 from cell. Hind wing with veins 3, 4 stalked; 5 obsolescent from just 

 below middle of discocellulars ; 6, 7 stalked ; 8 anastomosing with the cell to 

 middle. 



3880. Lophotarsia ochroprocta. 



Lophotarsia ochroprocta, Hmusn. Ann. S. Afr. Mus. ii. p. 299 (1902). 



S . Head rufous with deeper rufous bars above frons and 

 between antennae ; thorax grey tinged with rufous, the teguke with 

 rufous medial line defined by pale yellow in front ; legs suffused 

 with brown and rufous ; abdomen grey, the anal tuft and ventral 

 surface pale yellow suffused with rufous. Fore wing grey suffused 

 with fuscous, the inner area from before middle and the postmedial 

 area except at costa tinged with oohreous and rufous, the veins 

 beyond the cell slightly streaked with rufous ; a black-brown 

 subbasal line straight and erect from costa to vein 1, then bent 

 outwards and diffused ; traces of a diffused dark antemedial line ; 

 orbicular with faint diffused dark outline, round, a grey-wliito 



Fig. 70. — Lophotarsia ochroprocta, $ . \. 



patch beyond it before the reniform which has its centre defined by 

 black and pale grey annulus defined by diffused fuscous ; postmedial 

 line represented by a series of black striae and points, strongly bent 

 outwards below costa, excurved to vein 4, then incurved, some 

 faint grey points beyond it on costa ; subterminal line only defined 

 by the contrast between the rufous and grey areas, incurved below 

 vein 3 and bent outwards to tornus ; a terminal series of blackish 

 points ; cilia mixed with rufous at tips. Hind wing pure white, 

 the termen and cilia at apex suffused with fuscous brown ; the 

 underside with the costal area slightly irrorated with brown, a slight 

 postmedial line bent outwards below costa and ending at vein 7, 

 some points on termen from apex to vein 4. 



Hah. Transvaal, White 11. (Cool-e), 1 c? ; Natal, Estcourt 

 Hutchinson), 1 6 type. Exp. 34-38 millim. 



