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(11) EUTELIA SYMPHONICA, 11. Sp. 



? . Grey-brown tinged with olive and irrorated with black. 

 Forewing with the basal area sometimes suffused with black ; double 

 black minutely waved subbasal and antemedial lines filled in with 

 grey ; reniform whitish with a dark lunule on it ; a double waved 

 postmedial line excurved from below costa to vein 3 with black 

 patches before and beyond it beyond the cell ; a minutely dentate 

 white subterminal line with black spot beyond it below apex; a 

 crenulate black line just before termen. Hind wing with the inter- 

 spaces semihyaline except on terminal half ; a slight white line with 

 blackish marks on each side of it above tornus ; traces of a pale 

 waved subterminal line. 



Hah. German East Africa, Tanga ; Natal, Victoria District 

 (Gooeh). Exp. 30 mill. Type in B.M. 



fl2) EuTELiA FAViLATKix, Wlk. XV. 1778 (1858). Hmpsn. 111. Het. 

 B.M. ix. pi. 163, f. 15. 

 Hah. British East Africa, Athi-ya-Mawe ; Mashonaland, Um- 

 taH (Marshall) ; India ; Ceylon. Exi). 28 mill. 



Sub-Family STICTOPTERIN^. 



Genus STICTOPTEEA. 



Type. 

 Stictoptera, Guen. Noct. iii. p. 51 (1852)... cucuUioides. 



A. Hindwing with the basal semihyaHne area largely suffused with 



black, the veins traversing it black alutacea. 



B. Hindwing with the basal semihyaline area not suffused with black. 



a. Hindwing with the median veins on hyaline area white . . methyalea. 



b. Hindwing with the median veins dark cucidlioides. 



(1) Stictopteea ALUTACEA, Feld. Eeis. Nov. pi. 112, f. 4 (1874). 

 Hab. British East Africa; Natal, Durban (Leigh) ; Cape Colony, 



Transkei (Miss F. Barrett), Murraysberg (Trimen). Ex2}. 28- 

 30 mill. 



(2) Stictopteea methyalea, n. sp. 



<y . Black-brown ; pectus and abdomen below white irrorated 

 with brown. Forewing with the basal area suffused with black ; a 

 double very highly dentate antemedial line followed by a line which 

 is obhque from costa to submedian fold where it is obtusely angled ; 



