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white. Fore wing yellowish white, the costa and term en narrowly 

 black ; cilia black mixed with some white. Hind wing wiiite, the 

 termen with sliglit black line between vein 6 and submcdiau fcdd 

 and the cilia black between these points. 



Hah. Er. C. Africa, Jvaronga (Grogan), 1 c? ; ^Iashox.vlano 

 (Dobhie), 1 c? , 1 5 ; R-hodesia, Sabakwe, 1 5; Tkaxsvaal {Fead), 

 •2 J . EMp. 40-46 millim. 



Genus SEUDYRA. 



Type. 

 Snidijra, Streteli, Cist. Ent. ii. p. 19 (1873) traiibiens. 



I'roboscis fully developed ; palpi upturned, the 2nd joint reaching about to 

 middle of frons and fringed with hair in front, the ^rd typically moderate ; 

 frons with truncate conical prominence with raised edges at extremity ; eyes 

 large, round ; antenna; of male ciliated ; thorax clothed with hair and hair-like 

 scales and without crests ; fore tibite fringed with long liair, the mid and hind 

 tibiie moderately fringed ; abdouien with dorsal series of hairy crests. Fore 

 wing with the apex rounded, the termen evenly curved and typically not crenu- 

 late ; vein 8 from close to angle of cell ; 5 from well above angle ; 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 dis- 

 eocellulars ; 6, 7 from upper angle ; 8 anastomosing with the cell near base 

 only. 



Sect. I. Palpi with the t^>rd joint long; hind wing with the termen slightly 

 excised at submedian fold and the tornus lobed. 



A. Fore wing with the jDostmedial line very oblique from costa 



to vein 4 ; liind wing without discoidal spot venosa. 



B. Fore wing witli the postmedial line nearly erect and slightly 



incurved from costa to veni 4 ; hind vvnig with black dis- 



coidal spot suhjhwa. 



49u2. Seudyra venosa. 



Seudyra. venosa, Moore, P. Z. S. 1879, p. 389; Waterh. Aid, ii. pi. 131. 

 f. 5; llnipsn. Moths Ind. ii. p. 155; Kirby, Cat. Lep. Het. p. 38. 



Head and thorax dark cholocute red-brown mixed with some 

 greyish ochreous ; tegtihe ochreous at tips ; pecttis and legs orange, 

 the fore and mid tibiaj irrorated with fuscous ; abdomen orange, the 

 crests black-brown. Fore wing deep chocolate red-brown, the costal 

 half to postmedial line thickly irrorated with ochreous, extending to 

 just below cell and vein 2 and beyond the postmedial line to termen 

 between vein 4 and torntis, the veins striated with ochreous except 

 vein 1, the inner area deep red with some purplish plum-colour on 

 middle of inner margin and beyond postmedial line, the apical area 

 deep red to vein 5 with a plum- coloured patch below apex and 

 another between veins 5 and 8 beyond the postmedial line ; subbasal 

 line represented by a slight ochreous striga from cell ; antemedial 

 line obsolete on costal half, ochreous and erect below the cell with 

 some plum-colour defined on inner side by a white line before it in 

 submedian interspace ; orbicular and reniform large, defined by 

 ochreous, the former elongate elliptical, just touching the latter 



