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line represented by small black spots below costa and cell ; ante- 

 medial line black with small spot at, costa, waved, erect ; orbicular 

 a small round blackish annulus ; reniform small, slightly defined 

 by black ; traces of an oblique medial line from cell to inner 

 margin ; postmedial line black with small spot at costa, bent out- 

 wards below costa, then dentate, oblique below vein 4, some pale 

 points beyond it on costa ;. subterminal line slightly defined by 

 fuscous on inner side, excurved below vein 7 and at middle ; a 

 terminal series of black points. Hind wing white, the apex tinged 

 with brown ; a fine terminal dark line from apex to vein 2 ; cilia 

 tinged with brown at apex ; the underside with the apical area 

 irrorated with brown. 



Hab. Mashoxaland, Salisbury (Marshall), 1 <S , 2 9 tyP e - 

 Exp. 26 millim. 



3924. Athetis tenebrata. (Plate CXXIX. fig. 15.) 



Caradrina tenebrata, Hnipsn. Ann. S. Afr. jVTus. ii. p. 301 (1902). 



Head, thorax, and abdomen red-brown mixed with some whitish ; 

 palpi blackish at sides ; tibiae and tarsi blackish, the latter ringed 

 with white. Fore wing reddish brown tinged with grey aud 

 slightly irrorated with fuscous ; subbasal line black defined by grey 

 on outer side, curved, from costa to submedian fold ; antemedial 

 line double, blackish, the lines widely separated and filled in with 

 grey, slightly excurved below costa and cell ; orbicular and reniform 

 represented by some rufous suffusion : a diffused blackish medial 

 shade; postmedial line double, blackish, the lines widely separated 

 and filled in with grey, bent outwards below costa, then oblique 

 and slightly sinuous ; subterminal line slightly defined by brown 

 on inner side and somewhat angled outwards at vein 7 and excurved 

 at middle ; a fine pale line at base of cilia. Hind wing whitish 

 suffused with reddish brown especially on the veins and terminal 

 area, a fine dark terminal line ; cilia brownish at base, whitish at 

 tips; the underside white, the costal and terminal areas thickly 

 irrorated with red-brown, a large black discoidal lunule and slightly 

 sinuous brown postmedial line. 



Hah. Cape Colony, Transkei (Miss F. Barrett), 1 J , 1 5 type. 

 Exp. 28 millim. 



3925. Athetis expolita. (Plate CXXIX. fig. 16.) 



Caradrina expolita, Butl. A. M. N. H. (4) xvii. p. 407 (1876). 



5 . Head, thorax, and abdomen reddish brown mixed with some 

 greyish ; palpi black at sides, white in front and at tips ; pectus, 

 legs, and ventral surface of abdomen whitish irrorated with brown. 

 Fore wing reddish brown mixed with grey and slightly irrorated 

 with fuscous ; subbasal line slight, black, from costa to vein 1 ; 

 antemedial line slight, black, oblique from costa to median nervure, 

 then erect ; orbicular absent ; reniform a faint dark lunule with 



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