354 NocTiin.E. 



3090. Athetis absorbens. (Plate CXXX. fig. 27.) 

 Graphiphora absorbens, Wlk. x. 403 (1856). 



Head, thorax, and abdomen pale rufous mixed with whitish ; 

 palpi tinged with fuscous. Pore wing- pale rufous ; traces of a 

 subhasal dark striga from costa ; an oblique sinuous antemedial line 

 angled inwards on vein 1 ; orbicular and reniform fuscous brown, 

 undefined, the former round, the latter elliptical ; traces of a dark 

 medial line oblique from costa to reniform and sinuous from cell to 

 inner margin; postmedial line indistinct, dark, oblique from costa 

 to vein (j, then dentate and produced to points on the veins, 

 excurved to vein 4, then incurved ; subterminal line slightly defined 

 by fuscous on inner side, angled outwards at vein 7 and excurved 

 at middle : a terminal series ot dark stria? ; cilia fuscous at tips. 

 Hind wing whitish suffused and irrorated with reddish brown, the 

 underside with dark discoidal spot and diffused curved postmedial 

 line. 



Ab. 1. Fore wing with the postmedial area suffused with 

 fuscous. — Kokst ad . 



Hab. Cape Colony (Sir A. Smith), 1 J, 2 5 ^ v P e » Kokstad 

 (Mrs. Pringle), 1 tf . Exp. 32-38 millim. 



3997. Athetis pallicornis. 



Caradrina pallicornis, Fold. Reis. Nov. pi. 101). f. '20 (1874). 



Head and thorax brown mixed with grey-white; palpi and front 

 of pectus fuscous brown ; fore tibiae banded with fuscous, the tarsi 

 luscous ringed with white ; abdomen grey suffused with brown. 

 Pore wing grey-brown ; subhasal line slight, blackish, curved, a 

 black point beyond it in cell; antemedial line blackish, angled 

 outwards below costa and excurved in submedian interspace ; 

 orbicular a minute dark point ; reniform a diffused round black 

 spot ; medial line blackish, sinuous, oblique from costa to reniform ; 

 postmedial line blackish, oblique from costa to vein b', then dentate 

 and produced to black points on the veins, excurved to vein 4, then 

 oblique, subterminal line faintly defined by fuscous on inner side 

 and with fuscous mark before it below vein 7, excurved below 

 vein 7 and at middle ; a terminal series of minute dark lunules. 

 Hind wing grey suffused with fuscous brown, an indistinct 

 discoidal spot and curved postmedial line ; the underside somewhat 

 paler with blackish discoidal lunule, diffused curved postmedial line, 

 and termina. series of minute blackish lunules. 



Hab. Bastjtoiabtd. Maseru (Crawshay), 1 $; C. Colony, Transkei 

 (Miss F. Barrett), 1 6, 1 2, Knysna (Trimen), type f J in Coll. 

 Rothschild. Exp. 32-3b" millim. 



