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between veins 5 and 2 and strongly incurved between veins 2 and 1, 

 the area between it and medial line often suffused with black from 

 vein 2 to inner margin ; a terminal series of black points. Hindwing 

 white with fuscous suffusion on terminal area. 



Hab. British East Africa, Machakos (Crawshay), Nairobi (Betton); 

 Mashonaland, Salisbury (Marshall) ; Transvaal, Pretoria (Distant) ; 

 Cape Colony, Transkei (Miss F. Barrett). Exp. 28 mill. Type 

 in B.M. 



AUCTORUM. 



Dianthmcia submcesta, Moschl. Verb. z. b. 



Ges. Wien. xxxiii. p. 294, pi. xvi., f. 8... Natal, Cape Colony. 

 Mamestva or dinar la, Wlk. xxxii. 664 



(1865), type lost South Africa. 



Mamestra catephioides, Wlk. xxxii. 665 



(1865), type lost South Africa. 



Genus ASPIDIFEONTIA, nov. 



Type A. semipallida. 



Proboscis rather weak; palpi porrect to just beyond frous and 

 fringed with hair below ; frons with large disk-shaped corneous 

 prominence with truncate couical centre ; eyes hairy ; antenna of 

 male ciliated ; legs hairy. Forewing with veins 3 and 5 from near 

 angle of cell ; 6 from upper angle ; 9 from 10 anastomosing with 8 to 

 form the areole ; 11 from cell. Hindwing with veins 3, 4 from angle 

 of cell ; 5 obsolescent from middle of discocellulars ; 6, 7 from upper 

 angle. 



A. Forewing blackish with the costal half pale semipallida. 



B. Forewing pale, thickly irrorated with rufous rufescens. 



(1) ASPIDIFRONTIA SEMIPALLIDA, n. Sp. 



Head and thorax black ; antennre ochreous white ; tarsi ringed 

 with ochreous ; abdomen ochreous white, the ventral surface black. 

 Forewing black suffused with leaden grey especially towards inner 

 margin ; the costal area ochreous white, suffused with purplish pink 

 towards costa and with black patch with three pale points on it on 

 costa before apex, on basal area the pale colour extends to just below 

 the cell, on medial area to median nervure, and on postmedial area 

 to vein 5, and includes a black point in lower end of cell ; an oblique 

 crenulate postmedial line obsolete on costal area, with a rufous band 



