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2 ; the postmedial line dentate, oblique from costa to vein 6 where it 

 is angled, then inwardly oblique ; the subterminal line indistinct 

 waved, angled outwards at vein 7 and excurved at middle and with a 

 darker patch before it on costa extending down to vein 6 ; a series of 

 black points just before termen. Hindwing fuscous brown, paler 

 towards base. 



Ab. 1. Porewing with some reddish ochreous on each side of 

 antemedial line and beyond the postmedial line where it is developed 

 into a large patch on costa before the subterminal line. 



Hab. Transvaal (Marshall) ; Cape Colony, Annshaw, Transkei 

 (Miss F. Barrett). Ex2:). 56 mill. Type in B.M. 



(14) Ophiusa proxima, n. sp. 



? . Head and thorax dark red-brown shghtly irrorated with 

 white ; abdomen fuscous brown. Forewing purplish grey ; the 

 basal area suffused with cupreous red- brown ; an indistinct subbasal 

 line from costa to submedian fold ; the antemedial line straight, 

 inwardly oblique ; the area before the postmedial line suffused with 

 cupreous red-brown leaving a purple-grey band beyond the ante- 

 medial line ; two indistinct discoidal points ; a dentate medial line 

 excurved beyond cell ; the postmedial line oblique from costa to vein 

 6 where it is acutely angled outwards, then minutely waved and 

 inwardly oblique, its angle met by an obhque streak from apex; 

 some brown suffusion beyond it before the indistinct double dentate 

 subterminal line ; a series of black points just before termen. Hind- 

 wing dark brown with mdistinct medial line ; a greyish subterminal 

 line near tornus and some grey on termen between vein 5 and 

 tornus ; the under side greyer with two minutely waved curved 

 medial lines. 



Hab. Natal, Victoria District (Gooch). Exp. 50 mill. Type in 

 B.M. 



B. Hind tarsi with the first joint not fringed with hair above. 



a. Hindwing with the apical area orange bryoxantha. 



b. Hindwing with apical white patch mornioides. 



c. Hindwing without yellow or white at apex. 



a^. Hindwing with medial white band algira. 



&'. Hindwing without medial white band. 



a-. Forewing with the antemedial line curved. 



a'i. Forewing with the postmedial line incurved to 



near angle of cell at middle angularis. 



b3. Forewing with the postmedial line slightly in- 

 curved at middle derogans. 



b'^. Forewing with the antemedial line almost straight . . erectata. 

 C-. Forewing with the antemedial line waved palumbiodes. 



