352 NOCTuri).?:. 



wing greyish thickly suffused and irrorated with fuscous brown ; 

 subbasal line blackish, waved, from costa to submedian told ; ante- 

 medial line indistinct, dark, oblique from costa to median nervnre, 

 then slightly incurved ; orbicular a somewhat oblique black spot 

 touching the antemedial line ; reniform rather oblique elliptical with 

 small black spot on upper edge and two at lower extremity ; a rather 

 diffused dark line from lower angle of cell to innerniargin ; postmedial 

 line indistinct, dark, defined by whitish on outer side, excurved from 

 costa to vein 4, then oblique ; a faint pale curved subterminal line 

 defined by some black scales on inner side ; a terminal series of 

 slight black points : a fine white line at base of cilia. Hind wing 

 white ; the underside with the costal area slightly irrorated with 

 brown, a black discoidal point. 



Hub. Mashonalaxd, Salisbury (Marshall), 1 J type. Exp. 30 

 millim. 



3993. Athetis glauca. (Plate CXXX. fig. 24.) 



Caradrina glauca, Hmpsu. Ann. S. Afr. Mas. ii. p. 304 (1902). 



Head and thorax brown mixed with grey ; palpi black, white at 

 tips; tarsi brown ringed with white ; abdomen grey suffused with 

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

 with faint ochreous streaks in discal and submedian folds ; subbasal 

 line blackish, waved, from costa to submedian fold ; antemedial line 

 blackish, oblique, sinuous, angled outwards in submedian fold and 

 inwards on vein 1 ; orbicular a small round blackish spot; reniform 

 small, defined by blackish and rather constricted at middle; post- 

 medial line black, bent outwards below costa, then dentate and 

 produced to white points on the veins, excurved to vein 4, then 

 incurved ; subterminal line faint, whitish, slightly defined on inner 

 side by fuscous suffusion, excurved below vein 7 and at middle ; a 

 terminal series of black stria?. Hind wing pure white, the costal 

 area and veins of terminal area tinged with brown, a fine brown 

 terminal line; the underside wich the costal area suffused with 

 brown and irrorated with white, traces of a punctiform postmedial 

 line from costa to vein 3. 



Ab. 1. Fore wing with the orbicular elongate. 



Hah. Br. E. Africa, Maehakoe (Crawshay), 5 d , Kikuyu 

 (Crawshay), 1 $ , Eb Urru (Betton), 1 $ ; Transvaal (Bead), 1 d , 

 Piet Retief (Crawshay), 2 tf, Johannesburg (Cooke), 1 $; Natal, 

 Esicourt (Hutchinson), 1 J , 1 $ type. E.vj). 24-32 millim. 



3994. Athetis melanephra, n. sp. (Plate CXXX. fig. 25.) 



Head and thorax fuscous mixed with grey-white; palpi with the 

 third joint whitish; antenna: whitish; tegulse tipped with white; 



