The Moths of South Africa. 399 



shade before it ; the terminal half pale olive-brown with some black 

 scales on discocellulars and a darker shade before the grey subter- 

 minal line which is excurved at middle ; the termen with brown 

 patch above middle and at tornus and with terminal series of black 

 points; cilia dark brown. Hindwing orange, the basal and costal 

 areas tinged with brown ; some slight brown streaks on the veins at 

 termen ; cilia brownish. 



Hah. Damaraland ; Cape Colony, Annshaw (Miss F. Barrett). 

 Exp. 24 mill. Type in B.M. 



(14) Xanthopteea albifascia, Wlk. xxxiii. 771 (1865). 

 Hah. Cape Colony (Dr. Smith). Exp. 22 mill. 



Genus COSMOPHILA. 



Type. 



Cosmophila, Boisd. Faun. Ent. Mad. p. 94 

 (1833) erosa. 



Lineopalpa, Guen. Noct. ii. p. 290 (1852) ... horsfieldi. 



A. Forewing with the postmedial line angled outwards in sub- 

 median interspace. 



a. Forewing with the subterininal line dentate. 



a'. Forewing with the termen slightly angled at vein 4 . . erosa. 



6'. Forewing with the termen curved luperca. 



b. Forewing with the subterminal line not dentate subrosealis. 



B. Forewing with the postmedial line slightly sinuous in sub- 

 median interspace fulvida. 



C. Forewing with the postmedial line incurved in submedian 

 interspace sabulifera. 



(1) Cosmophila eeosa, Hllbn. Zutr. Samml. Exot. Schmett. ii. 19, 



ff. 287-288 (1827). 



Cosviophila inclica, Guen. Noct. ii. p. 396 (1852). 



,, auragoides, Guen. Noct. ii. p. 397 (1852). 



Hah. U.S.A. ; West Indies ; South America ; West Africa ; Soko- 

 tra ; British East Africa ; Mashonaland, Salisbury (Marshall) ; 

 N'Gamiland (Lugard); Natal (Gooch, Burrows), Durban 

 (Leigh) ; Madagascar ; Mauritius ; Japan ; China ; India, 

 Ceylon, and Burma; Australia. Exp. 38 mill. 



(2) Cosmophila lupebca, Moschl. Verb. Zool. bot. Ges. Wien. xxxiii. 



p. 300, pi. xvi. f. 15 (1883). 

 Hah. Gazaland, Chirinda Forest (Marshall) ; Cape Colony, 

 Transkei (Miss F. Barrett). Exp. 42 mill. 



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