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7923. Plecopterodes melliflua. (Plate CCXXIV. fig. 29.) 



Varadrinu melliflua, IfoU. ])oiiaklrOii Smith's Unknown Africa, p. 410 



(1897). 

 Chalciope calida, Hmpsn. Ann. S. Afi-. i\rus. ii. p. ,3.31 (1902). 



Head and tliorax red-brown slightly mixed with grey ; pectus 

 grey ; ])al|>i and legs grcv- white mixed with black, the tarsi blackish 

 ringed with wliite ; abdomen brown, the ventral surface white 

 iiTorated with brown. Fore wing grey suffused with red-bj*own 

 and irrorated with brown, the terminal area red-brown ; a slight 

 dark subbasal line from eosta to submedian fold, angled outwards 

 below costa ; antemedial line brown defined on inner side by some 

 white scales, slightl}- angled outwards at the veins ; reniform black- 

 brown, narrow and oblique with slight whitish streaks beyond it on 

 the veins ; a faint waved brown medial line excurved beyond the 

 cell, then incurved ; postmedial line brown slightly defined on outer 

 side bv white, with oblique blackish bar from costa, then slight and 

 waved, with blackish points at the veins, excurved below the costa ; 

 an oblique pale subterminal line with minute white streaks on it at 

 the veins ; cilia fuscous brown, white at tips at apex. Hind wing 

 grev-brown, the terminal area fuscous brown ; an indistinct dark 

 postmedial line slightly excurved in submedian interspace ; an in- 

 distinct pale subterminal line from vein 4 to tornus ; a fine waved 

 dark terminal line ; cilia grey-bro^^^^, white at ti])s towards apex ; 

 the underside grey irrorated with brown, the terminal area s\ifi"used 

 Avith fuscous, a diffused curved postmedial line. 



Ab. 1. Fore wing with the reniform not filled in with black. 



Ab. 2. cnllida. vSnialler ; fore wing more uniform red-brown, the 

 reniform not filled in with black. 



Ab. 3. Fore wing pale grey-brown tinged with rufous to the 

 subterminal line, the lines without white scales or points, the 

 reniform filled in with black. 



Hah. N. Nigeria, Zungeru (Mcicjte), 1 J ; Abyssinia, Atbara 

 ( OerranJ), 1 c? , f^heik Hussein, t>'pe f in Coll. Holland ; Uganda, 

 Wadelai {Em'ni Pasha), 1 c? type calida ; N.E. Rhodesia, 

 Luangwa Yallev (Heave), 1 d" ; Kiiodesta, BviIawuvo (Marshal/), 

 1 J ; Thaxsvaai,, Johannesburg {Coo/cr), Id." liJ.vj^. 32-42 

 millini. 



7924. Plecopterodes heterochroa. 



Jlemiffia heferochnw, Hnipsu. i\ Z. S. 1910, p. -i'lC), pi. xxxvii. f. 1. 



Head and thorax olive-grey mixed with brown ; palpi blackish 

 irrorated with grey ; pectus and legs greyer, the tiii"si fuscous with 

 pale rings ; abdomen grey-brown. Fore wing olive grey-brown 

 irrorated with fuscous; antemedial line blackish, slightly angled 

 outwards below costa, then erect and almost straight ; a .slight 

 brown discoidal striga ; postmedial line indistinctly double, blackish, 

 w ith small black spot at costa, very minutely waved, excurved to 

 vein 1. tlifii creel : subtcvininal line brown, straight, bent outwards 



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