356 Annals of tlie Soiith African Museum. 



vein 1 near medial line and bent outwards again to inner margin ; 

 traces of a pale waved subterminal line. Hindwing fuscous black 

 with rather broad oblique white medial band from vein 7 to sub- 

 median fold where it narrows to a point ; a small subterminal white 

 spot at vein 2 and a small spot at apex. 



Hah. Natal, Victoria District (Gooch). Exp. 52 mill. Type in 

 B.M. 



B. Mid and hind femora of male very thickly fringed with long black scales ; 

 hindwing suffused with black scales below. 



(3) Catephia amplificans, Wlk. xv. 1810 (1858). 



Hah. Natal (Gueinzius, Gooch). Exp. $ 50, ? 54 mill. 



C. Mid tibise of male very thickly fringed with long hair ; hindwing with the 

 base and inner area clothed with yellowish hair on under side. 



(4) Catephia squamosa, Wllgrn. Anteckn. i. Zool. i. p. 64 (1856). 

 Plusia inconclusa, Wlk. xii. 925 (1857). 



Anaphia discistriga, Wlk. xiii. 1128 (1857). 

 Hah. British East Africa, Kikuyu, Tanga ; N'Gamiland (Lugard) ; 

 Natal, Durban (Gueinzius, Leigh). Exp. 34 mill. 



D. Legs of male normal. 



a. Hindwing with the basal area white striata. 



h. Hindwing with white antemedial patch. 

 a^ Forewing without black subapical spots. 



a^. Forewing tinged with olive-green virescens. 



b^. Forewing not tinged with olive-green dulcistriga. 



6'. Forewing with two black subapical spots biptmcta. 



(5) Catephia striata, n. sp. 



? , Head whitish mixed with black ; palpi marked with black at 

 sides ; tegulae pale olive-green with a black medial line ; patagia and 

 thorax black and brown ; pectus, legs, and abdomen pale brownish 

 irrorated with black, the pectus with purplish and white hair in 

 front. Forewing pale brownish tinged with olive-green ; the basal 

 half suffused with black except the inner margin also the terminal 

 half between veins 4 and 1 ; black streaks below the cell and on 

 inner area before middle and on the veins of terminal area also some 

 striae in the interspaces ; orbicular small black-edged ; reniform and 

 transverse lines absent ; some pale points on costa towards apex and 

 some black points on termen ; cilia black between veins 4 and 1. 

 Hindwing white tinged with ochreous ; the terminal area black ; the 

 inner margin tinged with black ; cilia ochreous black between veins 



