84 South African Heterocera 
tornus till a little beyond vein 6; only a faint indication of a mark 
at disco-cellular ; cilia of both wings of ground-colour, but somewhat 
whitish between the veins especially in the female. 
Under-side: ground-colour of both wings as on upper-side, but less 
covered with scales of other colours; post-medial band in fore-wing 
only indicated on outer side by a rather sharply defined post-medial 
line; costal post-medial orange-rufous patch as on upper-side, but no 
orange-rufous at tornus and the costal scales beyond the post-medial 
line not white but ecru-drab (XLVI); hind-wing with medial and 
post-medial lines well defined, medial line beginning below vein 8 near 
the base ; terminal area as on upper-side. 
The ¢ of this species differs from the ¢ of H. smilax in colour of 
wings, less defined and differently shaped post-medial band, different 
shape of hyaline mark and the more concave costa, in the outer- 
margin of hind-wing not being concave at veins 2 to 4, but being even 
somewhat projected at vein 3. 
9. Differs from the ¢ in its larger size and in the fore-wing 
having a less concave costa and less faleate apex, while the outer- 
margin of both wings is much more crenulate ; the general pattern of 
both wings is as in the ¢, but the ground-colour is coral pink (XIII); 
the hyaline mark in the fore-wing is larger and the terminal area from 
apex to beyond vein 2 is orange-rufous; in the hind-wing is a well 
defined hyaline curved streak beyond disco-cellular between vein 3 
and 4 and extended to vein 5 as a dark line; the abdomen has on 
the upper-side four transverse rows of cream-buff, elongate scales, 
apparently at each corresponding segment; terminal segment above 
and all segments on under-side orange-rufous; under-side of both 
wings asin ¢ but ground-colour coral pink, medial line of hind-wing 
orange-rufous and terminal area orange-rufous from tornus to apex ; 
costa of fore-wing and hind-wing, and the hind-wings here and there 
at other places, sprinkled with cream-buff elongate scales and a series 
of lateral cream-buff elongate scales on the abdomen between the hairs. 
The venation of this species is as in H. smilax, the type of the 
genus, but the ¢ has the fore-wing more faleate and the costa more 
concave, while the tornus is more rounded. 
Expanse: ¢ 56°6-58 mm.; 9 75 mm. 
Four specimens from Salisbury; ¢ type 23rd Jan., 1917; co-type 
22nd Jan., 1917; 9% type 27th Feb., 1917; co-type 19th Jan., 1917 ; 
all bred by the Rev. Father J. O’Neil, who kindly gave them to me. 
