ATHBTIS. 303 



brown; cilia whiter; the underside whitish tinged with brown, 

 the costal area irrorated with brown. 



Hab. Cape Colony, Deelfontein (Shggett), 1 d , 1 £, Transkei 

 (Miss F. Barrett), 1 6 type. Exp. 34 millim. 



3919. Athetis nephrosticta, n. sp. (Plate CXXIX. fig. 1 1.) 



2 . Head and thorax brown mixed with grey ; abdomen grey 

 tinged with brown. Fore wing grey thickly irrorated with brown, 

 the terminal area suffused with brown : antemedial line blackish, 

 oblique, sinuous, angled inwards on vein 1 ; orbicular represented 

 by a minute black point, the reniform by a diffused dark mark 

 with white point near its outer edge ; medial line oblique to 

 reniform, oblique and sinuous from lower angle of cell to inner 

 margin ; postmedial line blackish, minutely dentate, nearly evenly 

 curved; subterminal line whitish, exeurved below vein 7 and at 

 middle. Hind wing grey tinged with brown, a fine dark terminal 

 line; the underside whitish thickly irrorated with brown, a blown 

 discoidal spot and postmedial line incurved below vein 3. 



Hah. Transvaal, White II. (GooTce), 2 $ type. Exp. 28 millim. 



3920. Athetis capicola. 



Spodcptera capicola, Herr.-Schaff. Aussereur. Schmett. f. 131 (1850). 



Head and thorax whitish mixed with pale brown, the head 

 whiter; palpi black, white at tips; abdomen grey suffused with 

 brown. Fore wing grey-white tinged with brown and slightly 

 irrorated with fuscous ; subbasal line represented by small black 

 spots below costa and ceil; antemedial line blackish with black 

 spot at costa, oblique, sinuous ; orbicular a small round white spot 

 with brown scales in centre ; reniform an elliptical black spot 

 defined by white ; an indistinct diffused medial line oblique from 

 costa to reniform and incurved below the cell ; postmedial line fine, 

 black defined slightly by white on outer side and with black spot 

 at costa, bent outwards below costa, then dentate and produced to 

 points on the veins, incurved below vein 4, some white points 

 beyond it on costa; the terminal area tinged with fuscous, the 

 subterminal line indistinct, whitish defined on inner side by slight 

 black marks, exeurved below vein 7 and at middle; a terminal 

 series of black striae slightly defined by white on inner side. Hind 

 wing whitish suffused with brown, the cilia paler; the underside 

 whitish, the costal area irrorated with brown, a slight discoidal 

 lunule. 



Hab. Cape Colony, Transkei (Miss F. Barrett), 3 rf , 1 $ . Exp. 

 26-28 millim. 



3921. Athetis rufipuncta. (Plate CXXIX. fig. 12.) 

 Caradrina rufipuncta, Hmpsn. Ann. S. Afr. Mus. ii. p. 300 (1902). 



3 . Head and thorax grey-white slightly tinged with brown; 

 2nd joint of palpi at sides and pectus in front blackish ; abdomen 



