ACRAPEX. 317 



4739. Acrapex hamulifera. 



Mellana hamulifera, Hnipsn. 111. Het. B. M. ix. p. 91, pi. KH. f. 5 (1893); 

 id. Moths Ind. ii. p. 28(). 



Head and thorax ochreous, the head and tegula? sliuhtly mixed 

 with rufous ; abdomen oclireous. Fore wing ochreous, the costal 

 and inner areas slightly irrorated with brown, the cell and area 

 below it to submedian fold from base to the oblique subterminal 

 line and apex thickly irrorated with brown and black leaving a 

 whitish streak on median nervure and thence obliquely to apex, 

 giving off a slight hook on discocellulars ; small very ill-defined 

 black spots at middle of cell and in submedian fold ; traces of an 

 oblique postmedial series of black points between veins 7 and 1 ; 

 an indistinct diffused oblique subterminal line from tei*men below 

 apex to inner margin ; a terminal series of small black lunules. 

 Hind wing pale ochreous suffused with brown ; cilia whitish ; the 

 underside ochreous white irrorated with brown, a brown discoidal 

 spot, indistinct rather diffused oblique postmedial line, and terminal 

 series of strise. 



Hah. Ceylon, Newera Eliya {Green), 1 J type, Diekoya {Green), 

 1 5 . Exp. m millim. 



4740. Acrapex metaphaea, n. sp. (Plate CXLIV. fig. 9.) 



S . Head and thorax ochreous tinged with rufous and mixed 

 with some black-brown ; palpi dark brown ; abdomen dorsally 

 dark brown, ventrally ochreous tinged with rufous. Fore wing 

 rufous, the costal area, median nervure and veins arising from it, 

 and inner margin sufl^used with dark brown, slight white points in 

 and beyond lower angle of cell ; traces of a subterminal series of 

 black points, a slight oblique dark shade from termen below apex ; 

 a terminal series of black points. Hind wing dark reddish brown, 

 the cilia with fine pale line at base ; the underside greyish suffused 

 and irrorated with fuscous. 



Hah. Mashonaland, Salisbury {MarshaU, Dohbie), 2 J type ; 

 Transvaal {Pead), 1 d . Exj). 26 millim. 



4741. Acrapex spoliata. (Plate CXLIV. fig. 10.) 

 Nepho]}teri/.v spo/iaUi, Wlk. xxvii. 63 (1863). 



c? . Head and thorax ochreous tinged with rufous and mixed 

 with some dark brown : palpi with the 2nd joint brown at sides ; 

 abdomen dorsally dark brown, ventrally ochreous tinged with 

 rufous. Fore wing ochreous tinged with rufous, the costal area 

 suffused with dark brown leaving slight pale streaks on the veins ; 

 the median nervure and base of veins arising from it streaked with 

 black- brown ; a black-brown streak in and beyond lower angle of 

 cell with white points on it before and beyond the angle ; a diffused 

 oblique black-brown shade from termen below apex to vein 3 ; a 



