542 



NOCTUrP.E. 



4273. Catamecia connectens. (Plate CXXXVL fig. 27.) 



Tar ache con ncct ens, Hmpsn. Ann. S. Afr. Mus. ii. p. 392 (1902). 



£ . Head and thorax grey tinged with red-brown, the scales 

 pencilled with black-brown ; palpi white in front ; frons white with 

 a black bar ; pectus and legs whitish, the fore tibiae and the tarsi 

 brown ringed with white ; abdomen red-brown, the ventral surface 

 whitish. Fore wing with the scales rufous and red-brown edged 

 with white : a black streak below base of cell ; antemedial line 

 represented by an oblique black striga from costa and slight streaks 

 on the veins, angled outwards in submedian fold where there is a 

 strong black streak from it to postmedial line ; orbicular and reni- 

 form small and close together, rufous with a black streak between 

 them, the former rather elongate and defined by black, the latter 

 defined by black on inner side only; postmedial line black defined 

 by white on outer side, very indistinct except between veins 3 

 and 1, oblique from costa to vein 6, then inwardly oblique to sub- 

 median fold and angled outwards at vein 1 ; the terminal area with 

 slight dark streaks on the veins and a dark shade at middle. Hind 

 wing whitish, the marginal areas suffused with brown ; cilia white 

 with a brown line near base from apex to vein 2 ; the underside 

 with the costal area tinged with ochreous and irrorated with red- 

 brown. 



Hah. Bechuanaland, X'Gami {Lugard), 1 $ type. Exp. 20 

 millim. 



4274. Catamecia deceptrix. (Plate CXXXYI. fig. 28.) 



Tseudoliadcna. deceptrix, Staud. Iris, xii. p. 369, pi. 5. f. 15 (1900) ; id. 

 Cat. Lep. pal. p. 170. 



c? . Head and thorax brownish grey mixed with dark brown ; 

 antennae ringed with black ; abdomen brownish grey irrorated with 

 fuscous. Fore wing pale grey-brown irrorated with fuscous ; the 

 veins with slight black streaks ; a sinuous black streak below base 

 of cell ; subbasal line represented by two oblique striae from costa ; 

 antemedial line double, more prominent at costa, obliquely excurved 

 from cell to inner margin ; orbicular and reniform rather small, 

 defined by black, the former rather elongate elliptical, the latter 

 open above ; postmedial line indistinctly double, more prominent 

 at costa, bent outwards below costa, then dentate and produced to 

 slight streaks on the veins, excurved to vein 4, then oblique, some 

 pale points beyond it on costa ; subterminal line hardly traceable, 

 with slight fuscous suffusion before it on inner side, and diffused 

 rather wedge-shaped marks beyond it in the interspaces ; a pro- 

 minent waved black terminal line. Hind wing ochreous whito ; a 

 fine slightly waved fuscous terminal line ; the underside with the 

 costal area irrorated with fuscous, a small discoidal spot. 

 llab. Stria, 1 <3 . Exp. 40 millim. 



