a mi; rip. 



361 



margin ; postmedial line blackish, oblique from costa to vein 6, 

 then dentate and produced to points on the veins, incurved below 

 vein 4; subterminal line whitish, defined on inner side by dark 

 brown suffusion, excurved below vein 7 and at middle and incurved 

 at submedian fold. Hind wing greyish suffused with brown, the 

 apical area slightly darker ; the underside with the costal area 

 suffused and irrorated with brown, a dark discoidal lunule and 

 faint diffused postmedial line from costa to vein 4. 



llab. U.S.A., Distr. of Columbia, Washington, 1 d, Ohio, 

 Illinois, Quiney (Poling), 1 tf , 1 $ , W.Virginia, Florida. Exp. 

 26-30 millim." 



Larva. Head small, thickly reticulated with dark brown. Body 

 robust, joint 13 enlarged ; obscure brown with a narrow linear 

 whitish dorsal line ; a series of faint oblique subdorsal streaks, the 

 dorsum reddish-shaded, with brown triangular spots on the poste- 

 rior edges of the segments ; a large brown lateral spot on joint 13 ; 

 substigmatal band broad, pale, with a series of brown spots below ; 

 cervical shield coucolorous. — H. (j. 1). 



4009. Athetis smintha. (Plate CXXXI. fig. 1.) 

 Caradrina smintha, Hmpsu. Ann. S. Afr. Mus. ii. p. 305 (1902). 



$ . Head and thorax reddish brown tinged with grey ; abdomen 

 rufous, whitish at base. Fore wing grey-brown with slight dark 

 irroration ; subbasal line indistinct, blackish, from costa to sub- 

 median fold ; antemedial line black, interrupted, oblique, sinuous; 

 orbicular a black point; reniform slightly defined by black at sides 

 only ; traces of a dark medial shade, oblique from costa to lower 

 angle of cell, then inwardly oblique ; postmedial line blackish, bent 

 outwards below costa, then produced to slight streaks on the veins; 

 excurved to vein 4, then oblique; subterminal line faintly defined 

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

 at middle ; a terminal series of slight black striaB ; a fine pale line 

 at base of costa. Hind wing white, the costal area suffused with 

 brown; the underside with the costal area irrorated with brown 

 towards apex, a slight discoidal point. 



2 . Hind wing with the terminal area more or less suffused 

 with fuscous. 



Bab. Natal, Maritzburg (Buvnup), 1 cJ; C. Colony, Transkei 

 (Miss F. Barrett), 1 J , 1 £ t}'P e - Ex P- 28-36 millim. 



Larva. Greyish thickly mottled with brown and with pale seg- 

 mental bands ; subdorsal line indistinct, pale, edged by black marks 

 above, with more prominent marks on 2nd somite and small pale 

 spot on 3rd somite ; lateral line indistinct, pale, edged with brown 

 above and with brown marks above it ; stigmata blackish; ventral 

 surface paler ; head red-brown. 



