300 ARCTIADJE. 



830. Siccia cafiFra. 



Sct-ia cafra, Wlk. ii. im (18o4) : Kirby. Cat. Ilct. p. 368. 



Lithusia mgrojinuctata, Wllgrn. Wien. Ent. Mou. iv. p. 46 (1860) ; Eirby, 



Cut. Hot. p. 308. 

 Uclauiu yMutiijiia, Feld. Eeis. Kov. pi. 106. ff. 34, 35 (1874). 



Pale grey-brown ; pali)i, frons, and fore legs above blackish. 

 Fore wing irroratid with a lew black scales; subbasal and ante- 

 ruedial blark s])(it.s on co-sta and below cell; medial S])ots on costa, 

 in tell, and on inner margin J a discoidal spot; an indistinct post- 

 medial line strongly bent 

 outwards below costa and 

 angled on veins and 4, 

 then incurved to below end 

 of cell and excurvcd again ; 

 a ditiused triangular wedge- 

 shaped patch from costa to 

 vein 5 ; terminal spots be- 

 Y\g. 2QZ.— Skcia caffra, J. |. low apex, at middle, and 



above tornus with slight 

 points between them. Hind wing Avhiti^h, slightly tinged with 

 broAvn towards costa and teimen and with indistinct discoidal point ; 

 more uniformly tinged with brown in female. 



IJah. Natal, Estcourt {Hutchinson), 1 (5,3 $ ; Cape Coloky, 

 Knysna {Trimen), 3 d", ii $ , type. Exp. 20-24 millim. 



C31. Siccia punctipennis. 



Lithosiapunciipennis, ^^Wgvn. Wien. Ent. Mon. iv. p. 40 (1860) ; Kirby, 



Cat. Het. p. 368. 

 Antoceras iiujropunctana, Saalm. Lep. Madag. i. p. 169, pi. 7. f. 103 



(1884) ; Kiroy, Cai. Het. p. 368. 



S. Pale grey -brown suffused Avith fuscous. Fore wing with 

 subbasal spot on costa ; the antemedial line arising from a s])ot on 

 costa, strongly angled outwards to a spot below the cell, tben re- 

 tracted ; a spot at middle of cell; the medial line arising from a 

 spot on costa, angled outwards in cell, then obli(]ue and minutely 

 dentate ; a discoidal spot ; the postmedial line minutely dentate, 

 bent outwards below costa and angled at veins G and 4, then 

 retracted ; a subterminal spot on costa with an obscure spot below 

 it and two above inner margin ; a terminal series of points. Hind 

 wing fuscous. 



Ab. 1. Yellower brown ; fore wing -with the antemedial and 

 medial lines and subterminal spots obsolescent. — Teita. 



JIuh. Map.\g.\scar, type f $ nujropunctana in Mus. Frankfort ; 

 Br. K. Africa, Teita (F. J. Jackson), 1 $ ; Cape Colony, type f c? 

 in Mus. Stockholm. Kc^^. lb millim. 



