534 



N0CTTJIDJ5. 



pinkish white with a black line through them. Hind wing pale 

 ochreous, slightly tinged with brown in female and with indistinct 

 diffused subterminal band ; the underside with the costal area 

 slightly irro rated with brown. 



Hah. Natal, Charleston {Topping 1 J , 1 5 type. Exp. 36 

 millim. 



4264. Procrateria noloides. 



Prccrateria noloides, Hrnpsn. Ann. S. Air. Mus. iii. p. 426 (1905). 



Head and teguloe dark brown slightly mixed with grey ; 

 thorax grey slightly irrorated with brown ; pectus and legs dark 

 brown, the tarsi with slight pale rings; abdomen grey irrorated 

 with black-brown. Fore wing grey-white irrorated with black- 

 brown, the veins streaked w T ith black ; a black patch on basal 

 costal area extending to antemedial line and at extremity to 

 median nervure, and another black patch on costal area from post- 

 medial line to apex, its outer edge obliquely excised ; antemedial 

 line very indistinct, whitish slightly defined by black scales, 

 forming the outer edge of the black patch, then slightly angled 

 outwards on median nervure and oblique to inner margin ; orbicular 



Fig. 145. — Procrateria noloides, <$ . \. 



whitish slightly defined by black, round ; reniform represented by 

 a slight whitish bar defined by blackish on inner side ; traces of a 

 dark sinuous medial line; postmedial line indistinct, dark, defined 

 by whitish on outer side before the costal black patch, bent outward 

 below costa, then strongly dentate and produced to a double series 

 of black points on the veins, oblique below vein 4 ; subterminal 

 line hardly traceable, whitish, defined on inner side by very faint 

 minute rufous streaks in the interspaces, slightly excurved below 

 vein 7 and at middle ; cilia grey mixed with rufous. Hind wing 

 greyish uniformly suffused Avith fuscous brown ; cilia white at 

 tips ; the underside grey thickly irrorated with fuscous, a black 

 point at upper angle of cell with dark mark on costa above it, and 

 an indistinct diffused curved postmedial line. 



Hub. Mashoxat.axd (Dobbie), 1 § type. Exp. 34 millim. 



Genus XYL0M(EA. 



Type. 



Xylomoia, Stand. Eom. Mem. »i. p. 451 (1S92) graminea. 



Proboscis fully developed ; palpi obliquely upturned, short, roughly scaled ; 

 Irons with slight roughened prominence; eyes large, rounded; antenna; of 



