320 NOCTUID®. 
above inner margin; an elliptical diseoidal spot defined by rufous, 
its centre also faintly defined by rufous, placed on a large oblique 
elliptical pale rufous patch which extends to submedian fold ; 
postmedial line double, blackish, strongly bent outwards below 
costa, then sinuous, angled inwards at vein 2 and outwards at 
submedian fold; subterminal line black, oblique towards costa, 
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Fig. 114.—Megathripa rufinedia, 2. 3. 
angled ontwards at vein 7 and slightly excurved at middle. Hind 
wing white, the veins towards termen, apical area and termen 
suffused with brown; cilia white, brown at base from apex to 
vein 2. 
Ab. 1. Fore wing without the rufous discal patch, the discoidal 
annulus defined by blackish ; hind wing with the terminal area more 
strongly suffused with brown. 
Hab. MozampBraur, Shilouvane (Junod), 1 2 ; Raopzsra, Bula- 
wayo (Lyles), 1 Q type. xp. 30-36 millim. 
Genus (/DICRASPIS, nov. 
Type, &. subfervida, 
Proboscis fully developed ; palpi obliquely upturned, the 2nd joint reaching 
to vertex of head and with large tuft of scales behind at extremity, the 3rd 
moderate ; frons smooth, with tuft of scales; eyes large, round; antenne of 
female almost simple; thorax clothed almost entirely with scales, the pro- 
thorax with hump-shaped crest, the metathorax with depressed crest; tibix 
slightly fringed with hair; abdomen without crests. Fore wing with the costa 
slightly lobed just beyond middle; the apex rectangular, the termen evenly 
curved and crenulate; veins 3 and 5 from close te angle of cell; 6 from upper 
angle; 9 from 10 anastomosing with 8 to form a short areole; 11 from cell. 
Hind wing with veins 3, 4 from angle of cell; 5 fully developed from well 
above angle; 6, 7 from upper angle; 3 anastomosing with the cell to middle. 
6625. (dicraspis subfervida, n. sp. 
@. Head and thorax purplish grey mixed with black; pectus, 
mid femora, hind leg, and abdomen ocheous tinged with rufous 
and slightly irrorated with brown. Fore wing purple-grey irrorated 
with black and tinged in parts with brown; a black streak below 
base of cell; a slight blackish subbasal spot on costa; antemedial 
line indistinetly double, with black spot on the inner line at costa, 
slightly excurved to median nervure and strongly incurved at 
vein 1; an oblique white discoidal bar; postmedial line arising at 
middle of costa, almost obsolete and downcurved below the costa 
