228 NocTriD.i5. 



Genus SYNCALAMA, nov. 



Type, S. mimica. 



Proboscis aborted, inimite ; piilpi porroet, lisirdly extending as far as frons 

 and IViiificd with lonp hair below ; irons with large round corneous proininence 

 with iiiised edges and short central process hollowed out in front ; a trilobate 

 corneous jilnte below it ; eyes large, round ; antenna- of male serrate ; thorax 

 clothed witli rough liair and hair-like scales and without crests ; tibial moder- 

 ately fringed with iiair ; abdomen with dorsal crest at base only. Fore wing 

 with the apex rounded, the termen evenly curved and elightly crenulate ; veins 

 8 and f) from near angle of cell ; G from upper angle ; 'J from 10 anastomosing 

 with 8 to form the are(jlp ; 11 from cell. Hind wing with veins 3,4 from 

 angle of cell ; 5 obsolescerit from just below middle of discocellulars; 6, 7 from 

 upper angle ; 8 anasLomosing with tlie cell near base only. 



4602. Syncalama mimica, n. sp. 



c? . Head and thorax oehrcons mixed witli brown; anlennoe 

 red-brown ; upper edge of patagia and metatborax with some 

 blackish scales ; abdomen pale ochreons dorsally suffused with 

 brown. Fore wing ochreous yellow suffused in ])arts with brown, 

 especially on inner ])asal area, in and beyond cell, and on ])ostmedial 

 area ; subbasal line represented by slight black striie from costa 

 and cell ; traces of a black streak below base of cell ; antemedial 

 line rather ill-deTinod, black, oblique, waved ; claviform huge, rather 

 incompletely defined by black ; orbicular and reniform large, yellow 



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Fig. 89.— iSi/ncalaina mimica, c?. 



defined by black, the former round, the latter open above and 

 rather constricted at middle ; an indistinct waved black line from 

 lower angle of cell to inner margin ; ])nstmedial line brown, ratlier 

 ill-defined, excurved from costa to vein 5, then oblique ; subter- 

 minal line hardly defined except by the constrast between the 

 rufous and yellow areas, waved, excurved below vein 7 and at 

 middle, then incurved ; a terminal series of small black lunules ; 

 cilia yellow mixed with rufous. Hind wing yellowish Avhite with 

 terminal series of small black spots ; the underside witli the costal 

 area slightly irrorated with rufous, a small discoidal spot aud rather 

 diffused curved postmedial line from costa to vein 4. 



JIah. Cape CoLONr, Deelfontein {SIo(j(jeit), 1 J type. E.vj). 

 30 niillim. 



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