710 XOCTVIVM. 



suffused with brown, with dark discoidal bar and indistinct curved 

 postmedial line. 



Hub. Transvaal, Pretoria (Swierstra), 1 £ ; Natal, Stanger 

 (Delvin), 1 c?, Estcourt (Hutchinson), 1 $, Durban (Gooch), 1 <j 

 type formosa ; Cape Colony, Pondoland, Nogeleni (Sivinny), 1 J. 

 irp. d 24, $ 26 millim. 



6074. Cardiosace sphendonistis. 



Tarachc sphendonistis, Hmpsn. Ann. S. Afr. Mub. ii. p. 384 (1902). 



S • Head blackish tinged with grey ; palpi white except at tips 

 above; thorax white with some grey scales on patagia and meta-' 

 thorax ; fore tibia? and the tarsi banded with grey-black ; abdomen 

 white with narrow blackish dorsal bands, the anal tuft ochreous.' 

 Fore wing white ; subbasal line grey, double, waved, from costa to 

 submedian fold ; antemedial line grey, double, waved, the lines 

 expanding into patches at costa; orbicular and reniform with slight 

 black annuli open below, the latter hoop-shaped; an oblique olive- 

 grey mark from middle of costa ; terminal area purple-grey shading 

 to olive on inner side and towards apex; postmedial line repre- 

 sented by an oblique olive-grey mark from costa on the white area 

 and an interrupted minutely waved black line on the purple area 

 strongly incurved below vein 4 ; subterminal line represented by a 

 slight white lunule with black spot before it below vein 7, and from 



Fig. 201. — Cardiosace sphendonistis, <$ . {. 



vein 5 to inner margin by slight white lunules with small dentate 

 red marks before them, the area beyond it irrorated with white : 

 a terminal series of small black lunules ; cilia with a patch of white 

 at tips below middle. Hind wing white with broad fuscous 

 terminal band, its inner edge somewhat incurved at vein 2; cilia 

 white; the underside with fuscous brown discoidal spot and patch 

 on middle of costa. 



$. Fore wing with the basal area rather greyer; hind wing 

 almost wholly suffused with fuscous brown, the underside with 

 dark ante- and postmedial bands. 



Hob. Transvaal (Pead), 1 9 ; Orange R. Colonv, Bloemfontein 

 (Eckersley, Wilson), 1 tf , 3 2 ; Natal, Estcourt (Hutchinson), 1 $ 

 type, Charlestown, 1 $; Basutoland, Maseru (Craivshay), 1 £, 

 Masite (Crdwshay), 1 tf . Eorp. 34-38 millim. 



