280 noctuidje. 



vein 3, angled outwards at vein 7 and inwards at vein 5 ; a ter- 

 minal white band with fine dark lines just before and on termen : 

 cilia pale brown with a fine dark line through them. Hind wing 

 pure white, the apex faintly tinged with brown, the veins brown ; 

 a slight dark diseoidal lunule ; the underside with the costal and 

 terminal areas to vein 2 irrorated with brown, a black diseoidal 

 lunule and curved postmedial line from costa to submedian fold. 



Hub. Transvaal, White R. (Cooke), 1 d ; Natal, Muoi R., 1 J ; 

 Madagascar, Betsileo (Coiomi), 2 J , 1 § type graminioolens. 

 Exp. 34-38 millim. 



Sect. II. Antennae of male laminate. 



3898. Mimleucania perstriata, n. sp. 



Head and thorax grey-white tinged with brown ; palpi blackish ; 

 frons with black bars above and between antennae; tegulue with 

 black line near base and dark brown tips ; patagia with dark streak 

 on outer edge and some black scales above ; vertex of thorax with 

 black streak; tibia? and tarsi with dark streaks; abdomen whitish 

 tinged with bx'own except at base and with blackish dorsal streak 

 on basal segments. Fore wing whitish thickly irrorated with 

 brown and with a diffused brown fascia below the cell and thence 

 obliquely to termen below apex, defined by pure white above ; a 

 strong black streak below basal half of cell ; the veins with dark 

 streaks ; antemedial line obsolete on costal half, then slight, ex- 

 tremely strongly angled outwards in submedian fold and above 

 inner margin and inwards on vein 1 ; faint traces of a very oblique 

 orbicular stigma ; reniform represented by slight black striae at 



Fig. 82. — Mimleucania perstriata, tf . \. 



sidos and a black streak with white streak above it below end of 

 cell ; postmedial line hardly traceable on costal half, more distinct 

 below vein 3, bent outwards below costa, oblique below vein 4 and 

 slightly angled inwards in submedian fold ; slight wedge-shaped 

 brown marks from termen above veins 7 and 3 and a stronger mark 

 on vein 2, with black streaks above and below vein 2 ; the extremity 

 of the veins denned by wedge-shaped white marks intersecting the 

 brown cilia ; a terminal series of slight black lunules. Hind wing 

 white, the veins of terminal half and the terminal area from apex 

 to vein 2 tinged with fuscous ; the underside with the costal area 

 and terminal area to vein 2 irrorated with fuscous. 



Hub. Orange River Coloxt, Bloemfontein (//. F, Wilson), 3 J, 

 1 $ . Exp. 32-36 millim. 



