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vein 3, then incurved and exeurved below subiiiedian fold, some 

 grevisli points beyond it on costa ; sul)terminal line indistinct, pale 

 slightly defined on outer side by blackish, minutely dentate, with 

 three short black streaks before it below costa ; a terminal series 

 of slight dark lunules. Hind u'ing with the basal half white, the 

 veins and inner margin tinged witli brown ; the terminal half 

 fuscous brown ; the underside with the costal area suffused with 

 brown, a blackish discoidal spot. 



5 . Abdomen with the lateral fringes and anal tuft not oehreous; 

 hind wing with the basal area suffused with brown. 



Hah. SiKiiiM {Macjee, MUUcr), 1 J , 1 $ type. Hxp. <S 36, 

 5 -14 millim. 



8440. Abrostola triopis. (Plate CCXXXIX. fig. 29.) 



Ahrostola triojns, Hmpsn. Ann. S. Afr. Mu?. ii. p. 344 (1902). 



Head and thorax dark brown mixed with grey-white, the vertex 

 of head and teguljB oehreous and red-l)rown ; palpi black-l)rown, 

 white in front; pectus black-brown in front; tarsi l)lackish ringed 

 with white ; abdomen grey-brown with some white hair at base of 

 sides, the ventral surface white irrorated with brown. Fore wing 

 gre}^ suffused with dark brown ; sub basal line slight, double, red- 

 brown, curved, from costa to median nervure ; antemedial line 

 double, the inner line red-brown, the outer black, slightly angled 

 outwards below costa and incurved at vein 1 ; orbicular, reniform, 

 and a spot below outer edge of former large, grey defined by black 

 with some raised scales on their edges, their centres slightly defined 

 by brown ; postmedial line double, the inner line black, the outer 

 red-brown, bent ovitwards and obsolescent below costa, then oblique 

 and slightly sinuous to vein 3 and excmwed above inner margin, 

 some grey points beyond it on costa ; subterminal line whitish defined 

 on each side l:)y rather diifused dark brown, waved ; a waved black 

 terminal line. Hind wing with the basal half white tinged with 

 brown and with the veins brown, the terminal half dark cupreous 

 l)rown ; cilia white slightly tinged with l)rown ; the underside white, 

 the veins and costal area irrorated with brown, the terminal area 

 suffused with brown, a small dark discoidal spot and rather (bffused 

 sinuous postmedial line. 



Hah. Br. E. Afeica, Eb Urru {Bdfon), 3 $; Zllulaxd, 

 Tugela 11. {Reynolds), 1 5 ; Natal, Durban (BoioArr, Bo.'is, 

 Iniies, Leif/h), 1 J, G 5 type; Cape Colo^t: {Drege), 1 5- 

 Exp. 28-36 millim. 



8441. Abrostola abrostolina. (Plate CCXXXIX. fig. 30.) 



I)>guridia abrostolina, Bull. A. M. N. II. (5) iv. p. 354 (1879). 



Head and thorax red-brown mixed with dark brown ; pectus and 

 bind legs with some grey; tarsi black-brown ringed with whitish; 



