S-'jS yocTriD.T:. 



Itrowiiisli grey suffused in parts witli dull olivu-grt'oii ; some 

 fuscous brown at base of cell ; subbasal line repix-sented by obrupie 

 ])ale striai from costa and cell defined by fuscous brown*, a pitch 

 of fuscous brown below svibmedian fold in which there is a diifused 

 streak connecting it with the antemedial line, which is indistinctly 

 tlouble, fuscous brown, waved, connected by a diffused streak below 

 submedian fold with the postmedial line ; orbicukr with fuscous 

 brown centre and pale annulus, a fuscous brown patch between it 

 and the reniform, which is represented by a ])ale bar defined on 

 outer side by fuscous brown ; postmedial line pale defined on each 

 side by fuscous brown scales, dentate, oblique to vein 5, then in- 

 Avardly oblique and incurved in submedian interspace, a fuscous 

 lirown patch bcA'ond it above vein G and a patch before and beyond 

 it between veins 4 and 2, the costa beyond it with alternating' pale 

 and dark marks ; subterminal line pale defined on each side bv 

 fuscous brown scales and with a fuscous brown patch beyond h 

 between veins 6 and 4, dentate ; cilia chequered fuscous" brown 

 and whitish. Hind wing greyish tinged Avith fuscous brown ; a 

 fuscous discoidal spot and postmedial line excurved to vein 4, then 

 incurved. 



$ . Hind wing fuscous, the cilia with a fuscous line through 

 them. 



Hab. KiTAL, Durban (Qi(el-etf, Bell-Ma riei/), 1 J , 3 $ tvpe. 

 Exp. cS 38, 5 42-46 milUm. 



Larva. Dorsal surface ]Hn-ple-red ; ventral surface white tinged 

 with purple-red ; each somite with a dorsal black band with two 

 creamy white spots on it, the anterior rounded, the posterior hooked 

 and with a white patch behind it ; lateral line white with the black 

 stigmata on it, each Avith a black-brown spot behind it exeei)t on 

 lOtli somite; Avarts with a few long Avhite hairs; head ochreous, 

 the jaws on a black patch, the lower jmrt of hemispheres Avith 

 black ]iatchcs, the hairs white. 



Fiipa. Semihyaline, the head, wing eases, and legs defnied bv 

 cliocolate-broAvn lines, abdominal segments Avith chocolate-brown 

 bands ; stigmata chocolate-broAvn. 



Skct. II. Antenna; of male scrrtate and fasciculate. 



A. Foic wing vitlioiit wbite patches beyond tlie cell and at 



middle of submedian interspace hrcvicorvis. 



B. Fore wing with white patelies beyond the cell and at middle 



of submedian intcrppace lulcscciis. 



8170. Elseodes brevicornis. 



Xa»/hia hrcvironi/s, Wik. x. -lOG (1856). 

 Mamet^fm tarara, IloU. Psyche, vi. p. bi\(j (1803). 



6 . Head and thorax olive-green mixed Avith ochreous; antenmc 

 brownish ; abdomen ochreous, the crests olive-green. Fore Aving 

 ochreous suffused with olive-green ; a brown ]iatch at base (if 

 costa; subbasal line represented by curved Avhitisli stria^ from custa 



