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a3, Forewing with a white spot on ciHa below apex . . biputictata, 

 b3. Forewing without white spot on cilia below apex. 

 a*. Hindwing with broad black terminal band. 

 aS. Hindwing with the terminal black band 



extending to costa melanoplaga. 



fes. Hindwing with the terminal band re- 

 stricted to medial part of termen . . . . fatilega. 

 a*. Hindwing with the termen tinged with 



fuscous fumata. 



b. Forewing with the postmedial line retracted to origin of vein 2. 

 a'. Hindwing pure white, the terminal band narrow . . . . retracta. 

 b^. Hindwing tinged with brown, the terminal band broad . . nigristria. 



(2) AuDEA CATOCALA, Feld. Eeis. Nov. pi. 116, ,f. 2 (1874). 



Aktra caupona, Moschl. Verh. Zool. bot. Ges. Wien. xxxiii. p. 304, 



pi. xvi. f. 18 (1884). 

 Hab. Transvaal (Marshall) ; Natal, Estcourt (Hutchinson) ; 



Cape Colony, Queenstown (Bulger). Exp. 60 mill. 



(3) AUDEA VAEIEGATA, n. Sp. 



? . Head and thorax red-brown mixed with dark brown and 

 white ; pectus whitish and grey ; legs yellowish marked with dark 

 brown, the tarsi banded with brown ; abdomen orange, the extremity 

 brownish. Forewing greenish grey irrorated with black ; a short 

 subbasal black line from costa and tufts of black hair below the cell 

 and on inner margin ; a waved antemedial black line with red-brown 

 band on its inner side ; reniform small, brownish ; a black annulus 

 below end of cell with waved line from it to inner margin ; the post- 

 medial line very oblique and somewhat sinuous from costa to vein 6, 

 then very dentate, inwardly oblique and with less distinct similar 

 line beyond it ; a subterminal series of black and white dentate spots, 

 those above veins 4, 5 extending to near termen ; a series of small 

 lunules just before termen. Hindwing orange-yellow with terminal 

 black band narrowing towards tornus and leaving a yellow apical 

 spot. 



Hab. Natal, Victoria District (Gooch). Ex2). 60 mill. Type in 

 B.M. 



(4) AuDEA PEIMULINA, n. Sp. 



Head and thorax dark brown mixed with black ; pectus yellowish ; 

 legs yellowish and brown, the tarsi ringed with yellowish ; abdomen 

 dorsally orange, in male whitish towards base and brownish towards 

 extremity, the ventral surface whitish. Forewing dark reddish 

 brown, irrorated with black ; a short waved subbasal line ; the ante- 



