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(3) Mamestea bulgeri, Feld. Eeis. Nov. pi. 110, f. 18 (1874). 



Hab. Natal, Estcourt (Hutchinson) ; Cape Colony, Queenstown. 

 Exp. 38 mill. 



(4) Mamestea biesoglauca, n. sp. 



? . Head and thorax dark purplish brown mixed with black and 

 white scales ; tarsi with whitish bands ; abdomen greyish, red-brown 

 on terminal half and ventral surface. For awing dark purplish brown 

 mixed with grey and black scales ; some black points on basal part 

 of costa and a black streak below base of cell ; the medial area 

 whitish irrorated with black, defined in inner side by the sinuous 

 interrupted black antemedial line and on outer side by the waved 

 postmedial line which is excurved from costa to vein 3, then incurved, 

 the orbicular, reniform and claviform white defined by black lines, 

 the two former with the area between them purplish brown ; some 

 pale points on costa towards apex ; an irregular ochreous white 

 subterminal line with ochreous patch at apex and g-mark at 

 middle ; a crenulate black terminal line ; cilia fuscous with two 

 ochreous white lines through them. Hindwing fuscous with the 

 basal area whitish ; cilia whitish. 



Hab. Natal, Durban (Innes) ; Cape Colony, Annshaw (Miss F. 

 Barrett). Exp. 36 mill. Type in B.M. 



(5) Mamestea dipterigidia, n. sp. 



Head and thorax dark red-brown mixed with black ; abdomen 

 fuscous, the anal tuft rufous and ochreous. Forewing dark red- 

 brown suffused with black ; traces of some black points on costa and 

 of a sinuous antemedial line, the orbicular and reniform rather small, 

 black-edged and indistinct ; the claviform represented by an obscure 

 blackish streak ; the postmedial black line crenulate, excurved from 

 costa to vein 3 and with a reddish ochreous patch beyond it on inner 

 area extending to tornus ; some pale points on costa towards apex 

 and a series of indistinct dentate subterminal black marks ; a pale 

 waved line at base of cilia. Hindwing fuscous, paler towards base ; 

 cilia pale with a fuscous line through them. 



Hab. Cape Colony, Annshaw (Miss F. Barrett). Exp. 42 mill. 

 Type in B.M. 



(6) Mamestea eenisigna, Wlk. x. 267 (1856). 

 Dianthcecia prcBtermissa, Wlk. xi. 506 (1867). 

 Hadena depulsa, Wlk. xi. 690 (1867). 



,, inculta, Wlk. xxxiii. 727 (1865). 



