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medial line, very strongly excurved below vein 2 and ending in 

 a tuft of rufous and black scales on inner margin ; the orbicular 

 and reniform small, indistinct with pale outlines, the latter strongly 

 constricted at middle ; the postmedial line dark, minutely waved, 

 very strongly excurved below costa, then obhquely curved to middle 

 of inner margin, with two pale waved lines on its inner side ; the 

 terminal area purplish grey irrorated with fuscous ; an indistinct 

 mmutely waved curved fuscous subterminal hne and a fine crenulate 

 black terminal line. Hindwing ochreous suffused with brown, espe- 

 cially on terminal half, and with darker terminal band with traces of 

 a curved pale line on it. 

 Hah. N'Gamiland (Lugard). Exi). 26 mill. Type in B.M. 



(3) Xanthoptera porphyeea, Butl. P.Z.S. 1898, p. 420. 



Hah. West Africa, Accra: British . East Africa, Neugia, Voi ; 

 N'Gamiland (Lugard). Exp. 20-24 mill. 

 The types of this species are both females, the so-called male 

 belonging to this species, the female to Mcgalodes insocia, Wlk. 



(4) Xanthoptera olivula, Guen. Noct. ii. p. 231 (1852). 



Hah. Natal coast belt (Barker) ; Cape Colony. Exp. 26 mill. 



(5) Xanthoptera excisa, Swinh. P.Z.S. 1885, p. 455. 

 Tarache athiops, Dist. A.M.N.H. (7) i. p. 223 (1898). 



Hah. Gambia, Bathurst ; British East Africa, Machakos, Kili- 

 makiu ; Mashonaland, Sahsbury (Marshall) ; Transvaal, Pre- 

 toria (Distant) ; India. Exp. 18-22 mill. 



(6) Xanthoptera namacensis, Guen. Noct. ii. p. 258 (1852). 



Hah. Abyssinia; Angola, Ambriz ; JS amaqualand ; Natal, Mal- 

 vern (Marshall), Durban (Bowksr) ; Cape Colony, Annshaw 

 (Miss P. Barrett). Exp. 24 mill. 



(7)*Xanthoptera carcaroda, Dist. Entom. 1901, p. 284. 

 Hah. Transvaal. Exp. 34 mill. 



(8)^:=Xanthoptera abunda, Feld. Eeis Nov. pi. 108, f. 46 (1874). 

 Hah. Cape Colony. Exp. 28 mill. 



(9) Xanthoptera grandieena, n. sp. 



(?. Ochreous whitish; fore- and mid-legs tinged with fuscous 

 above; abdomen dorsally tinged with fuscous. Forewing with a 



