174 NO'Cl Tl DM. 



5252. Eublemma daphcena. n. sp. (Plate CLIII. fig. 30.) 



J . Head and tegulse bright rufous : thorax and abdomen pale 

 brownish grey. Fore wing whitish tinged with red-brown and 

 irrorated with dark brown, the apical area more rufous, the costal 

 edge rufous ; antemcdial line dark brown, angled outwards below 

 costa, then oblique and very slightly angled at submedian fold ; a 

 brown discoidal striga ; medial line brown strongly angled outwards 

 beyond upper angle of cell, then oblique; postmedial line brown, 

 angled outwards at vein G and slightly at vein 4, then slightly in- 

 curved ; the costa towards apex blood-red with some yellow points 

 on it and an oblique black striga from apex ; traces of a minutely 

 waved whitish subterminal line with faint blackish points on its 

 outer edge ; a fine brown terminal line; cilia rufous, deep blood- 

 red at tips. Hind wing whitish tinged with brown ; traces of fine 

 sinuous brown postmedial and subterminal lines except towards 

 costa ; a fine brown terminal line; cilia whitish tinged with blood- 

 red. Underside of fore wing bluish white with some dark irroration 

 on costal and terminal areas and the disk suffused with brown, two 

 dark brown postmedial striae from costa with some points beyond 

 them ; hind wing white, the costal area tinged with ochreous and 

 irrorated with brown, a fine minutely waved postmedial line and 

 terminal series of black points from apex to vein 3. 



Hub. Transvaal, White E. (Cooke), 1 d type. Exp. 22 millim. 



5253. Eublemma polygramma. 



Anthdplrihi pel i gramma, T>u\> Lep. Fr.,Suppl. iii. p. f>19, pi. 44. f. 3 (1836) ; 



I'rr.NmieBeitr. pi. 437. f. 2; Herr.-Scliaff. Eur. Schmett., Noct. f . 257 ; 



Knibr. Cat Lep. S. And. pi. 15. f. 5; Stand. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 227. 

 Anfhophila arqillacea, Ev. tauii. Vo'g. & Ur. p. 33'.) (1S44). 

 Thal-pockares 'inula, Christ. Stett. Ent. Zeit, 18t>2, p. 221. 

 Thalpochares 'pudorina, Staud. Stett. Ent. Zeit. 1889, p. 53. 

 Thalpocharcs violetta, Stand. Stett. Ent. Zeit. 1889, p. 53. 



Head, thorax, and abdomen grey-brown, the last with pale seg- 

 mental lines : pectus and base of abdomen on underside white. 

 Fore wing grey-brown with a slight rufous tinge, thickly and 

 minutely irrorated with white ; antemedial line indistinct, dark, 

 sinuous, strongly escurved in submedian interspace ; slight dark 

 points in middle of cell and on discocellulars : medial line white 

 with a fine brown line on its inner edge, angled outwards at vein 6 

 to well beyond the cell, then obliqne and slightly incurved ; post- 

 medial line brown defined on inner side by white, excurved below 

 costa. then obliquely incurved ; the costa towards apex rufous with 

 a whitish point; subterminal line whitish, angled inwards below 

 eosta, then very miniitely dentate ; a fine rufons terminal line and 

 white Hue at base of cilia. Hind wing greyish suffused with reddish 

 brown, the costal and terminal areas greyer: a white medial line 

 from discal fold to inner margin, and indistinct postmedial brown line 

 slightly defined on outer side by whitish except on costal area; a 



