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ochreous irrorated with brown. Porewing variegated with ochreous 

 and purple-brown and irrorated witli black ; the subbasal line repre- 

 sented by obscure black spots with white scales on them below costa 

 and cell ; the antemedial line blackish defined by white on costal 

 half, angled outwards below costa and on median nervure and ex- 

 curved to inner margin; the orbicular a small black spot with 

 white annulus, the reniform a black bar outlined with white and with 

 reniform black-brown patch beyond it before the postmedial line 

 which is minutely dentate and oblique from costa to vein 6, thence 

 incurved to near origin of vein 2, then oblique to inner margin and 

 with a white-edged triangular black patch beyond it on costa ; an 

 obscure dentate subterminal line ; a terminal series of white points. 

 Hindwing yellowish white, the terminal third suffused with fuscous 

 brown ; the under side with discoidal point and postmedial line 

 angled in discal fold, the area beyond it irrorated with brown. 



Hah. Mashonaland, Umtali (Marshall). Exp. 52 mill. Type in 

 B.M. 



Genus CATEPHIA. 



Type. 



Catephia, Ochs. Schmett. Eur. iv. p. 94 



(1816) alchemista. 



uEclia, Hiibn. Verz. p. 260 (1827) leucamelas. 



Sect. I. Antennae of male bipectinate with short branches. 



(1) Catephia nigrescbns, Wllgrn. Anteckn. i. Zool. i. p. 64 (1856). 

 Agrotis inqideta, Wlk. x. 340 (1856). 



Haclena teretiplaga, Wllgrn. Wien. Ent. Mon. iv. p. 170 (1860). 

 ^dia sofala, Feld. Eeis. Nov. pi. 110, f. 2 (1874). 

 Hab. British East Africa, Kikuyu; Cape Colony (Dr. Smith), 

 Annshaw (Miss F. Barrett). Exp. 28-36 mill. 



Sect. II. Antennse of male ciliated. 



A. Forelegs of male fringed with very long thick hair ; hindwing with fold and 

 rough hair at tornus on under side. 



(2) Catephia natalensis, n. sp. 



(? . Black-brown. Fore wing with the apical area paler ; the 

 lines black, indistinct ; the antemedial and medial lines waved ; the 

 orbicular a black point ; the reniform indistinct with a black annulus 

 below it below base of vein 3 ; the postmedial line more prominent, 

 sinuous, oblique from costa to vein 4 then retracted to an angle on 



