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on its outer edge extending to the waved black subterminal line 

 which is bent outwards to apex and excurved at middle ; a terminal 

 series of black and white points. Hindwing yellowish white, the 

 apex slightly tinged with fuscous. 



Bab. Mashonaland, Umtali (Marshall). Exp. 34 mill. 



(2) ASPIDIFRONTIA RUFESCENS, n. Sp. 



? . Head and thorax whitish mixed with brown ; frontal promi- 

 nence blackish and long ; abdomen ochreous white. Forewing 

 ochreous-white thickly irrorated with purplish red ; the veins 

 irrorated with black ; traces of an antemedial line ; a point in 

 end of cell ; an obscure double postmedial series of white points 

 on the veins excurved below costa,' then oblique ; a terminal series 

 of black points. Hindwing yellowish white, the terminal area 

 suffused with brown. 



Hab. Mashonaland, Umtali (Marshall). Exp. 34 mill. Type 

 in B.M. 



Genus DIAPHONE. 



Type. 

 Diaphone, Hiibn. Verz. p. 188 (1827) ewnda. 



A. Forewing with the discoidal spot crimson . . . . eumela. 



B. Forewing with the discoidal spot not crimson dominica. 



(1) Diaphone eumela, StoU. Pap. Exot. iv. pi. 347, g (1781). Larva 



Fawcett, Trans. Z.S. xv. vi. p. 318, pi. 49, ff. 20, 21 (1901). 



Bombyx elegans, Fabr. Mant. Ins. ii. p. 116 (1787). 



Noctua sylvi.ana, StoU. Suppl, Cram. pi. 40, f. 4 (1790). 



Chelonia evidens, Guer. Icon. E. Anim. Ins. p. 513, pi. 88, f. 1 

 (1829). 



Hab. Senegal ; British East Africa, Wadelai ; Portuguese East 

 Africa, Chiperoni ; Natal (Gooch), Newcastle, Karkloof (Mar- 

 shall) ; Basutoland, Masitz (Weigall) ; Cape Colony. Exp. 

 38-46 mill. 



(2) Diaphone dominica. Cram. Pap. Exot. iv. pi. 399, H. (1783). 



Larva Fawcett, Trans. Z.S. xv. v. p. 317, pi. 49, ff. 17, 18 (1901). 



Hab. Mashonaland, Salisbury (Marshall) ; Transvaal, Pre- 

 toria (Distant) ; Natal, Durban (Leigh) ; Cape Colony, 

 Grahamstown ; Mauritius ; India ; Ceylon ; Burma ; Java. 

 Exp. 36-88 mill. 



