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Genus WESTEEMANNIA. 



Type. 

 Westermannia, Hlibn. Zlitr. ii. 23 (1827) ... superha. 



A. Forewing white with faint lines nivea. 



B. Forewing brown with the ante- and post-medial lines meeting on 



inner margin convergens. 



(1) Westermannia nivea, n. sp. 



Pure white; palpi, antennae, legs, and abdomen tinged with 

 ochreous. Forewing with the costa ochreous ; an indistinct medial 

 series of yellowish grey spots excurved from costa to median ner- 

 vure ; obscure spots on discocellulars and beyond the cell ; an oblique 

 minutely waved postmedial line angled inwards below vein 2 ; a 

 minutely waved subterminal line ; three small spots just before 

 termen below apex ; a terminal series of striae ; ciliae irrorated with 

 brown. Hindwing with slight brownish suffusion towards termen ; 

 the veins, termen, and cilia yellowish. 



Hab. Mashonaland, Salisbury (Marshall). Exp. 32 mill. Type 

 in B.M. 



(2) Westeemannia convergens, n. sp. 



^ . Head and thorax pale rufous brown ; palpi tinged with fus- 

 cous ; abdomen whitish tinged with brown. Forewing pale chocolate- 

 brown slightly irrorated with black; the basal area tinged with grey; 

 an oblique pale antemedial line met on inner margin by the post- 

 medial line which is strongly excurved beyond cell, then very oblique 

 and with a yellowish patch beyond it on costa. Hindwing yellowish 

 white. 



2 . Forewing without the yellowish patch beyond the postmedial 

 line ; hindwing fuscous. 



Hab. Cape Colony, Annshaw (Miss F. Barrett). ExjJ. $ 28, 

 ? 30 mill. 



Genus ACONTIA. 



Type. 



Acontia, Ochs. Eur. Schmett. iv. p. 91 (1816) malva. 



rMg-aTOWsa, Wlk. xxxiii. 979 (1865) apollinis. 



A. Forewing with black spot in end of cell apollinis. 



B. Forewing without black spot in end of cell. 



a. Forewing without transverse lines grcelUi. 



b. Forewing with ante- and post-medial lines iiialvce. 



