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(12) AUDEA BETKACTA, 11. sp. 



Head and thorax brown mixed with grey ; abdomen whitish tinged 

 with ochreous and slightly irrorated with fuscous. Forewing grey 

 thickly irrorated with brown and suffused with brown and fuscous ; 

 the antemedial line angled outwards on median nervure and above 

 inner margin and inwards on vein 1 ; a diffused fuscous mark on 

 middle of costa ; the postmedial line minutely sinuous, oblique from 

 costa to below vein 6, at vein 3 retracted to origin of vein 2 and 

 excurved again above inner margin, a diffused fuscous band beyond 

 it with dentate outer edge ; a series of slight streaks in interspaces 

 of terminal area ; cilia fuscous intersected with grey. Hindwing 

 pure white ; the costal area, termen, and base of cilia brown from 

 apex to vein 1. 



Hah. Natal, Estcourt (Hutchinson); Cape Colony, Transkei (Miss 

 F. Barrett). Exp. 36 mill. Type in B.M. 



(13) AuDEA NIGEISTRIA, n. Sp. 



? . Dull brown ; palpi, lower part of frons and legs blackish. 

 Forewing with blackish mark at base of costa ; an obliquely curved 

 sinuous subbasal line from costa to submedian fold ; the antemedial 

 line oblique and slightly sinuous from costa to submedian fold then 

 strongly incurved; the postmedial line bent outwards below costa, 

 strongly excurved to vein 3, then retracted to origin of vein 2 where 

 it is conjoined to a black streak on terminal part of median nervure, 

 then obliquely curved to inner margin ; a black line on termen with 

 a series of short streaks in the interspaces before it. Hindwing 

 whitish tinged with brown, the terminal area broadly and diffusedly 

 fuscous ; cilia white. 



Hah. Cape Colony, Transkei (Miss F. Barrett). Exp. 42 mill. 



Genus CHALCIOPE. 



Chalciope, Hlibn. Verz. p. 268 (1827)... 

 Pseudopihia, Guen. Noct. iii. p. 234 (1852) 

 Grainmodes, Guen. Noct. iii. p. 275 (1852) 

 Trigonodes, Guen. Noct. iii. p. 281 (1852) 

 Bemigia, Guen. Noct. iii. p. 312 (1852) 



Sect. I. Antennge of male bipectinate. 



(1) Chalciope caenicolok, n. sp. 



(? . Head and tegulae rufous ; antenna brownish, white towards 

 base ; thorax and abdomen ochreous yellow. Forewing ochreous 



Type. 



cephise. 



iUunaris. 



geometrica. 



Jiyppasia. 



frugalis. 



