36 xocrrrD.E. 



series of black points ; cilia olive-green with a few black scales ; the 

 underside white sparsely irrorated with black and olive-green, a 

 black discoidal bar and terminal series of points. 



Hah. Natal, Durban (Leigh), 2^,1$ type. Exp. 20- 

 26 millim. 



Larva. Geometriform. Coecidiphagous, pupating in cocoon covered 

 with their exuviaa ((/. F. Leigh). 



Genus CATOBLEMMA, nov. 



Type, C. sumbavensis. 



Proboscis fully developed; palpi obliquely porrect, extending about twice 

 length of head, the 2nd joint, fringed with hair above, the 3rd moderate ; frons 

 smooth ; eyes large, round ; antenna? of female somewhat laminate and 

 minutely ciliated; thorax clothed almost entirely with scales and without 

 crests: tibia 1 moderately fringed with hair; abdomen without crests. Fore 

 wing with I he apex rounded, the termen not crenulate ; veins 3 and f> from 

 near angle of cell ; 6 from below upper antrle ; 7 from angle ; 8, 9, 10 stalked ; 

 11 from cell. Hind wing with veins 3, 4 from angle of cell; 5 nearly fully 

 developed from below middle of discecellulars ; 6, 7 from upper angle ; 

 8 anastomosing with the cell near base only. 



Sei t. I. Fore wing witli the termen somewhat excised below apex and 

 excurved at middle : hind wing with the termen excised at. discal 

 fold; palpi with the 2nd joint triangularly fringed with long hair 

 above towards extremity. 



A. Wings tinged with pink rosealis. 



B. Wings not tinged with pink phi a lit. 



5026. Catoblemma rosealis. (Plate CXLIX. fig. 25.) 

 Mimoruza rosealis, Hmpsn. Moths Ind. iv. p. 520(1896). 



9. Head and thorax white ; palpi suffused with dark brown at 

 sides, the fringe blackish at tips ; frons with ridge of black-brown 

 hair above : legs tinged with oclireons brown, the fore tarsi ringed 

 with white ; abdomen white, dorsallv tinged with ochreous, ventrally 

 irrorated with brown. Fore wing white tinged in parts with pale 

 pink ; a subbasal brown point on costa ; an antemedial brown point 

 on costa and traces of a slight ochreous line angled inwards at vein 1 ; 

 a slight ochreous spot in middle of cell and another at middle 

 of costa with the slight medial line arising from it, excurved to 

 median nervure, then incurved and with ochreous band beyond it ; 

 a black point at upper angle of cell and spot at lower angle diffused 

 on outer side ; a truncate conical ochreous brown patch on post- 

 medial part of costa; the slight blackish postmedialline arising from 

 its inner edge and bent inwards below vein 4 ; subterruinal line 

 white, angled outwards at middle, the area beyond it suffused with 

 brown and irrorated with blackish ; a terminal series of black striae 

 defined on inner side by white; cilia ochreous brown with fine 

 white line at base and some black scales at middle. Hind wing 



