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(2) CONSERVULA. PULCHERRIMA, 11. Sp. 



(? . Head and thorax bright rufous pencilled with ochreoas ; palpi 

 white below ; outer part of patagia and part of metathorax blue- 

 grey ; pectus and legs mostly white ; abdomen fuscous above, white 

 beneath, the anal tuft brownish. Forewing blue-grey ; the area from 

 base to reniform and down to vein 1 ochreous strongly irrorated with 

 ferruginous ; some whitish spots near base ; a double waved ferrugi- 

 nous antemedial line bent outwards and single below vein 1 ; orbicular 

 and reniform with whitish spots on their edges ; a curved ferruginous 

 medial line ; traces of a sinuous fuscous postmedial line ; a small 

 ochreous and ferruginous patch on costa beyond the medial line and 

 a large patch towards apex traversed by a ferruginous line and with 

 white spots on its outer edge ; the subterminal line represented by 

 some dark red points. Hindwing semihyaline white tinged with 

 fuscous at apex. 



Hab. Mashonaland, SaHsbury (Marshall). Exp. 40 mill. Type 

 ill B.M. 



Genus SVINHCEA. 



Type. 

 Sivinhcea, Hmpsn. Moths Ind. ii. p. 324 (1894) vegefa. 



SviNHOEA vEGETA, Swiuh. P.Z.S., 1885, p. 475, pi. 28, f. 14. 



Hab. Abyssinia; N'Gamiland (Lugard); Mashonaland, Salis- 

 bury (Marshall); India, Ceylon, and Burma; New Guinea. 

 Exp. 22-30 mill. 



Genus OVIOS. 



Type. 

 Ovios, Wlk. iii. 753 (1855) capensis. 



Sect. I. Antennae of male bipectinate with short branches ; the frontal pro- 



mmence short. 



(1) Ovios CAPENSIS, Herr Schaff. Aussereur Schmett. ff. 115-116 



(1853). 

 Hab. Natal, Karkloof (Marshall); Cape Colony, Grahamstown. 

 Exp. 32 mill. 



Sect. II. Antennee of male minutely serrate and ciliated ; the frontal 

 prominence long. 



(2) Ovios ALBA, Eoths. Nov. Zool. IV. p. 183 (1897). 



Hab. British Central Africa, Fort Johnson ; Tropical South 

 Africa (Eriksson). Exp. 48 mill. 



