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(7) Thermesia hansali, Feld. Eeis. Nov. pi. 117, f. 5 (1874). 



Hab. Upper Egypt ; British East Africa, Neugia ; Natal, Dur- 

 ban (Gooch, Leigh) ; Cape Colony, Transkei (Miss F. Barrett). 

 Exp. 40 mill. 



AUCTORUM. 



Gracillodes amaponda, Feld. Eeis. Nov. pi. 119, 

 f. 28 (1874). Type lost Natal. 



Genus ACANTHOLIPES. 



Type. 



Acantholipes, Led. Noct. Eur. p. 198 (1857)... regularis. 



A. Forewing with the postmedial line arising from close to apex and slightly 

 incurved. 



a. Both wings with silvery line before the postmedial line . . trimeni. 

 h. Neither wing with silvery line before the postmedial line . . circumdata. 



B. Forewing with the postmedial line arising from long before apex, then 

 excurved. 



a. Forewing with the subterminal line slightly curved and with 

 bidentate line beyond it annexa. 



b. Forewing with the subterminal line sinuous and without bidentate line 

 beyond it. 



a'. Forewing with the medial shade bent outwards round end 



of cell rufirena. 



6'. Forewing with the medial shade oblique arctinotata. 



(1) Acantholipes trimeni, Feld. Eeis. Nov. pi. 108, f. 7 (1874). 

 Hab. Mashonaland, Salisbury (Marshall) ; N'Gamiland (Lugard) ; 



Natal, Estcourt (Hutchinson). Exp. 'SO mill. 



(2) Acantholipes circumdata, Wlk. xv. 1763 (1858). 



Hab. West Africa, Nigeria, Congo ; Sokotra ; British East 

 Africa, Sabaki Valley, Kinsembo ; British Central Africa, 

 Nyasa ; Delagoa Bay (Mrs. Monteiro) ; Arabia ; Western India. 



Exp. 24-28 mill. 



(3)*AcANTH0LiPEs ANNEXA, Dist. A.M.N. H. (7) i. p. 230 (1898). 

 Hab. Transvaal, Johannesburg (Cregoe). Exp. 34 mill. 



(4) Acantholipes rufirena, n. sp. 



Brownish grey ; palpi black, pure white at base ; fore and mid 

 tibiae and tarsi black above. Forewing irrorated with black ; the 

 subbasal line represented by dark points below costa and cell ; the 

 antemedial line indistinct, waved ; the reniform small with ochreous 

 centre and rufous and black outline, rarely filled in with black ; the 



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