708 N0CTUID.E. 



Estcourt {Hutchinson), 1 S , Durban (Leigh), 1 3 ; Basutoland, 

 .Maseru (Crawshay), 1 $: Cape Colony, Grahamstown, 1 <j> , 

 Transkei (Miss F. Barrett), 3 tf , 1 ? . Exp. 24-30 millim. Type 

 t rectanyularis in Mus. Stockholm. 



6071. Cardiosace olivescens, n. sp. (Plate CLXX. fig. 20.) 



S . Head and thorax yellowish white ; palpi olive-brown at tips ; 

 frons with olive-brown bar above ; vertex of thorax suffused with 

 olive-brown ; tarsi blackish ringed with white ; abdomen fulvous 

 yellow with slight dark dorsal bands on basal segments, the ventral 

 surface yellowish white. Fore wing yellowish white; some pale 

 olive marks on basal costal area ; a pale olive antemedial band, 

 oblique from below costa to inner margin ; orbicular a small round 

 olive spot, the reniform a faint olive annulus ; terminal area olive- ' 

 green and deep rufous, its inner edge oblique from costa to just 

 beyond lower angle of cell, then bent inwards to middle of wing 

 and erect to inner margin ; postmedial line represented by a slight 

 dark streak on costa connected by an oblique olive band with the 

 dark terminal area and an indistinct red-brown line from vein 6, 

 incurved below vein 4 ; subterminal line represented by slight 

 white irroration and an oblique sinuous yellowish white bar from 

 vein 3 to tornus ; a terminal i-eries of black points defined on inner 

 side by yellowish white ; cilia with yellowish patches below apex 

 and at middle and a rufous line through them. Hind wing pale 

 yellow, the termen tinged with rufous from apex to vein 2; cilia 

 with a brown line near base and white tips ; the underside yellow 

 with brown discoidal point and fine brown terminal line. 



Hab. Transvaal, WaterbergDistr. (/Smersfrvv), 1 £ type. Exp. 22 

 miUim. 



G072. Cardiosace triphaenoides. (Plate CLXX. figs. 21 j , 22 $ .) 



Acontia trichcenoides, Wllgrn. Anteckn. i. Zool. 1. p. 59 (1856). 



Acontia triphanoides, Wllgrn. Kongl. Svensk. Vet.-Akad. Handl. v. (3) 



p. 67(1864). 

 Acontia lit urifera, Wlk. xxxiii. 784 (1865). 

 Acontia trimenii, Wllgrn. (Efv. Ak. Forh. 1875, p. 110. 



cJ . Head fuscous brown mixed with some white; palpi except 

 at tips and lower part of frons white ; thorax white with some 

 brown scales ; fore a.nd hind tibiae and tarsi banded black and 

 white ; abdomen white tinged with yellow except at base. Fore 

 wing with the basal half white ; subbasal line represented by slight 

 dark striae from costa and in cell with a black bar beyond it in cell ; 

 antemedial line double with dark bars from costa, then obsolescent, 

 oblique, waved; terminal half red-brown with an olive tinge 

 shading to purple-grey towards termen, its inner edge oblique from 

 costa to lower angle of cell, then incurved ; reniform indistinctly 

 defined by silvery grey and some black at sides, elliptical; a quad- 

 rate postmedial white patch from costa to vein 6, its inner edge 



