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slight white sezmental lines. Fore wing yellow suffused with 
rufous and tinged with crimson especially on terminal area; an 
obliquely curved dark antemedial line from costa just before middle 
to inner margin; a dark discoidal point usually present; post- 
medial line dark, oblique from costa to below vein 7, then inwardly 
oblique and slightly incurved; traces of a subterminal series of 
minute dark spots, excurved below costa. Hind wing semihyaline 
white, the termen and cilia yellow. 
Hab, Ruovesta, Bulawayo (Eyles), 2 3,2 Q type; Transvaar, 
Johannesburg (Cooke), 1 3, Warmbad (Janse), 1 9. Hxp, 24- 
millim. 
7088. Neaxestis mesogonia. (Plate CXCI. fig. 6.) 
Paraxestis mesogonia, Hmpsn. A. M. N. H. (7) xvi. p. 585 (1905). 
¢. Head and thorax ochreous tinged with rufous; pectus and 
legs whitish ; abdomen ochreous, the ventral surface white. Fore 
wing ochreous, the basal and costal areas to postmedial line 
irrorated with brown, the medial area except towards costa and 
the terminal area suffused with rufous; a brown antemedial line 
obtusely angled in cell, then oblique and slightly sinuous ; a brown 
postmedial line angled at vein 6, then oblique; traces of a sub- 
terminal line towards costa and an ill-defined spot on inner 
margin ; cilia rufous mixed with brown. Hind wing semihyaline 
yellowish white with a slight rufous tinge towards termen. 
2. Fore wing with the medial area suffused with dark brown, 
the terminal area tinged with brown; hind wing more ochreous, 
the termen brownish. 
Hab. Gameta (Moloney), in Coll. Druce; Axsysstnta, Atbara R. 
(Gerrard),2 3,1 9 type. Hap. gf 24, 2 26 millim. 
7089. Neaxestis irrorata. 
Paraxestis irrorata, Hmpsn. P. Z. 8. 1910, p. 413, pl. xxxvi. f. 10. 
g. Head and thorax whitish ochreous tinged with rufous and 
irrorated with fuscous; antenne tinged with rufous; abdomen 
ochreous dorsally suffused with rufous. Fore wing whitish ochreous 
slightly tinged with rufous and irrorated with black; antemedial 
line very indistinct, angled outwards on median nervure; a black 
discoidal: point ; postmedial line very indistinct and oblique from 
costa to vein 6, then pale rufous, strongly incurved below vein 5; 
a faint diffused rather maculate subterminal blackish shade, 
excurved below costa; cilia blackish at tips. Hind wing yellowish 
white with slight rufous terminal line except towards tornus; the 
underside with the costal area white. 
Hab. N.K, Ruopesia, Luangwa R. (Neave), 1 go type. Exp. 
26 millim. 
