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between them ; the postmedial hne double, minutely waved, bent 

 outwards below costa, angled outwards in discal fold and inwards in 

 submedian fold ; the subterminal line indistinct, pale, defined on 

 each side by diffused fuscous, angled outwards at vein 7 and excurved 

 at middle ; a fine terminal line ; cilia intersected with black. Hind- 

 wing fuscous ; the imder side whitish irrorated with brown, an 

 indistinct sinuous postmedial line and diffused subterminal line. 



Hah. Cape Colony, Transkei (Miss F. Barrett). Exp. 26 mill. 

 Type in B.M. 



(3) Eeasteia quadeimaculata, Mab. Ann. Soc. Ent. Fr. 1888, 

 p. 729. 

 Hah. East Africa; Natal coast belt (Barker). Exp. 34 mill. 



AUCTOEUM. 



ETastriavaripalpis,y^l'k. xxxiii. 792 (1865). 



Type lost South Africa. 



Genus MEGALODBS. 



Type. 



Megalocles, Guen. Noct. ii. p. 261 (1852) eximia. 



Metaplioplasta, Wllgrn. Kongl. Svensk. Vet. 



Akad. Handl. v. 3, p. 70 (1864) insocia. 



Sect. I. Prons with the process trilobate at exti-emity ; antennEe of 

 male nearly simple. 



A. "Wings with the ground-colour ochreous. 



a. Forewing with large rounded patches on basal and apical areas 



shaded with brown achatina. 



b. Forewing without rounded patches on basal and apical areas 

 shaded with brown obsita. 



B. Wings with the ground-colour white insocia. 



(1) Megalodes achatina, Weymer. Berl. Ent. Zeit. 1896, p. 90. 

 Hah. Central Africa; Natal, Estcourt (Hutchinson). Exp. 



34 mill. 



(2) Megalodes obsita, Eeld. Eeis. Nov. pi. 108, f. 39 (1874). 

 Hah. Cape Colony, Capetown (Trimen). Exp. 26 mill. 



(3) Megalodes insocia, Wlk. xii. 788 (1857). 

 Acontia concimiula, Wlk. xii. 789 (1858). 



pyralina, Wlk. xii. 789 (1857). 



