304 NOCTUID-iE. 



white slightly irrorated with brown. Fore wing grey-white 

 slightly irrorated with blackish ; subbasal line represented by some 

 black sc lies below costa ; faint traces of an oblique sinuous ante- 

 medial line ; orbicular a small round white spot with some rufous 

 scales in centre ; reuiform a rufous bar slightly defined by white ; 

 an indistinct oblique dark medial line from lower angle of cell to 

 inner margin ; postmedial line represented by a series of slight 

 blackish points, bent outwards below costa, excurved to vein 4, 

 then oblique ; a subterminal series of slight blackish marks with 

 Avhite points on their outer side, somewhat angled outwards at 

 vein 7 and excurved at middle ; a terminal series of slight black 

 points. Hind wing whitish suffused with brown ; the underside 

 whiter tinged and irrorated with brown, traces of a discoidal point 

 and postmedial series of minute streaks on the veins. 



Hah. Gate Colont, A.nnshaw (Miss F. Barrett), 1 J type. Exp. 

 28 millim. 



3922. Athetis poliostrota, n. sp. (Plate CXXIX. fig. 13.) 



cT . Head, thorax, and abdomen grey tinged with brown and 

 irrorated with fuscous ; palpi black, the extremities of 2nd and 

 3rd joints white: frons with lateral black bars; antenna; black; 

 metathorax with metallic blue-black patch ; tarsi black ringed 

 Avith white. Fore wing grey tinged with reddish brown and irro- 

 rated with black, the terminal area slightly darker; subbasal line 

 represented by small black spots below costa and cell ; antemedial 

 line slight, black with small spot at costa, waved, excurved in sub- 

 median interspace ; orbicular a black point ; reniform represented 

 by two black points with white points on their inner side ; post- 

 medial line represented by a series of black points, bent outwards 

 below costa, then with series of black points beyond it on the veins, 

 slightly incurved below vein 4 ; subterminal line faintly defined by 

 fuscous on inner side and slightly exctirved below vein 7 and at 

 middle; a fine terminal black line. Hind wing white tinged with 

 brown especially on the veins and terminal area ; a fine dark 

 terminal line ; cilia white with a strong fuscous line at middle ; 

 the underside white, the costal area and terminal area to vein 2 

 irrorated with brown, a small discoidal spot and traces of waved 

 postmedial line from apex to vein 4. 



Hah. Mashonaxand, Salisbury (Marshall), 1 $ type. Exp. 

 20 millim. 



3923. Athetis microtera. (Plate CXXIX. fig. 14.) 



Caradrina microtera, Hmpsn. Ann. S. Afr. Mus. ii. p. 301 (1902). 



Head and thorax white mixed with pale brown, the back of 

 head yellowish ; palpi black, white at tips ; antenna; blackish 

 except basal joint ; tarsi brownish with pale rings ; abdomen 

 whitish tinged with brown. Fore wing white thickly irrorated 

 with pale brown, the terminal area tinged with fuscous; subbasal 



