338 NOCTUID^, 



Genus CONICOFRONTIA. 



Type. 



Conicofrontia, Hmpsn. Ann. S. Afr. Mus. ii. p. 296 (1902) sesamiodes. 



Proboscis aborted, small ; palpi obliquely upturned, the 2nd joint reaching 

 about to middle of frons and moderately fringed with hair in front, the 3rd short, 

 porrect ; frons with pointed conical prominence ; eyes large, round ; antennse 

 of male bipeotinate with very short branches, serrate towards apex ; thorax 

 clothed with hair only and without crests ; tibiie fringed with rather long hair ; 

 abdomen elongate, without crests. Fore wing narrow and elongate, the apex 

 produced and acute, the termen obliquely curved and not crenulate; veins 3 

 and 5 from near angle of cell ; 6 from upper angle ; 9 from 10 anastomosing 

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

 angle of cell ; 5 obsolescent from middle of discocellulars ; 6, 7 from upper 

 angle ; 8 anastomosing with the cell near base only. 



4776. Conicofrontia sesamiodes. 



Conicofrontia sesamiodes, Hmpsn. Ann. S. Afr. Mus. ii. p. 296 (1C02). 



S . Head, thorax, and abdomen whitisli tinged with rufous. Fore 

 "wing whitish tinged with ritfous and irrorated with fuscous ; black 

 points at base below costa and cell ; a black point at lower angle 

 of cell and two minute streaks beyond the angle ; a postmedial 



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Fig. 152. — Conicofrontia sesamiodes, <f. }. 



series of slight black points on the veins ex curved from costa to 

 vein 4, then oblique. Hind wing white, the veins tinged with 

 ochreous ; the underside with the costal area slightly tinged with 

 rufous. 



$ . Fore wing with some short subterminal black streaks between 

 veins 6 and 3 ; hind wing browner. 



Hah. Natal, Durban {Leigh), 3 (5 ; C. Colony, Transkei (Miss F. 

 Barrett), 1 $ type. Exp. J 54, $ 38 millim. 



Genus ARCILASISA. 



Type. 

 Arcilasisa, Wlk. xxxii. 470 (1865) subria. 



Proboscis fully developed ; palpi obliquely upturned, the 2nd joint reaching 

 about to middle of frons and fringed with rather loDg hair in front, the 3rd 

 short ; frons with rounded prominence ; eyes large, round ; antennae of male 



