108 noctuid^;. 



at discal fold, exeurved beyond lower angle of cell, then incurved, 

 some black points beyond it on costa ; subterminal line whitish 

 defined on inner side by brown suffusion and with short black 

 streaks before it between veins 7 and 4, minutely waved, exeurved 

 below vein 7 and at middle and angled inwards above and below 

 subraedian fold, some fuscous suffusion beyond it and an oblique 

 dark streak from apex ; a punctiform black terminal line ; cilia 

 with brown line at middle, the tips chequered with brown. Hind 

 wing ochreous tinged with red-brown ; a fine brown termiual line; 

 cilia brownish at base, whitish at tips ; the underside ochreous 

 white sparsely irrorated with brown. 



Hab. Cape Colo>t, Deelfontein (Sloggett), 1 $ type- Exp. 24 

 millim. 



5129. Eubleinma flavinia. (Plate CLI. fig. 22.) 



Metachrostis flavinia, Hmpsn. Ann. S. Afr. Mus. ii. p. 411 (1902). 



S . Head orange-yellow, the antenna? brownish ; thorax rufous 

 mixed with greyish ; pectus, legs, and abdomen yellow, fore tibiae 

 and tarsi brownish with pale rings. Fore wing greyish ochreous 

 suffused and irrorated with red-brown ; subbasal line ill-defined, 

 from costa to submedian fold; antemedial line red-brown, diffused, 

 waved, double at costa ; a dark bar at middle of cell and indistinct 

 dark discoidal lunule ; a sinuous medial line with some dark suffusion 

 beyond it from costa to below cell ; postmedial line double filled in 

 w T ith greyish, exeurved below costa and at middle, incurved at 

 discal fold and below vein 4, some pale points beyond it on costa ; 

 subterminal line formed of whitish lunules defined on inner side 

 by red-brown suffusion and on outer by a crenulate line ; a ter- 

 minal series of purple-brown points. Hind wing pale yellow, the 

 veins of inner half slightly irrorated with red ; a terminal series 

 of slight reddish points ; the underside with the costal area slightly 

 irrorated with red. 



$ . Abdomen suffused with red-brown ; fore wing much darker, 

 the ground-colour silvery -purple ; hind wing suffused with red- 

 brown on upper and under sides. 



Hab. Transvaal, Johannesburg (Cooke), 1 J, 1 $. Exp. 24-2S 

 millim. Type t in Coll. Druce. 



5130. Eublemma lacernaria. 



Geometra lacernaria, Hiibn. Eur. Schmett., Geoui. f. 422 (1818) ; Staud. 



Cat. Lep. pal. p. 226. 

 Anthophila glarea, Treit. Eur. Schmett., v. (3) p. 282 (1826) : Gever, Eur. 



Schmett., Noct. ff. 822-3 ; Dup. Lep. Fr., Suppl. iii. p. 561, pi. 47. f. 9; 



Frr. Beitr. pi. 135. f.2 ; Herr.-Schaff. Eur. Schmett., Noct. ff. 259, 278-9. 

 Anthophila cretula, Frr. Neue Beitr. p. 124, pi. 360. ff. 3, 4 (1847) ; Embr. 



Cat. Lep. S. And. pi. 7. f. 5. 

 Glaphyra phlomidis, Guen. Noct. ii. p. 257 (1852). 



Head and thorax pale olive-yellow irrorated with red-brown ; 

 palpi, lower part of Irons, and antennas brown, the frons with 



