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crenulate line just before termen. Hindwing yellowish tinged with 

 brown ; pale towards base ; cilia whitish with a brown line at base. 



The N'Gamiland specimen is small, has the lines of forewing 

 much less distinct, and the patch on costa before apex more 

 truncate : it may be a distinct species. 



Hah. N'Gamiland (Lugard) ; Delagoa Bay (Mrs. Monteiro). 

 Exp. 26-38 min. 



Genus COEGATHA. 



Type. 



Gorgatha, Wlk. xvi. 215 (1858) zonalis. 



P/ia?iasjja, Wlk. xxxiv. 1211 (1865) thermesialis. 



Sect. I. {Phanaspa). Pore femora and tibias of male thickly tufted 

 with hair ; patagia with tufts of scales reaching beyond meta- 

 thorax ; the base of inner area of both wings with tufts of 

 rough hair. 



(1) Gorgatha theemesialis, Wlk. xxxiv. 1211 (1865). 



Hah. West Africa, Sierra Leone ; British East Africa, Nairobi, 

 Machakos, Eb. Urru ; Mashonaland, Salisbury (Marshall) ; 

 Natal, Malvern (Gueinzius, Marshall) ; Cape Colony, Transkei 

 (Miss R Barrett). Exp. 24-26 mill. 



Sect. II. [Cwgatha). Legs, patagia, and wings of male normal. 



(2) Gorgatha producta, n. sp. 



S . Eather pale rufous ; palpi and frons deep rufous ; a white 

 bar between antennae ; abdomen slightly irrorated with black on 

 dorsum. Forewing with oblique antemedial series of five black 

 points ; a medial line strongly angled outwards below costa and 

 black from costa to angle, then brown and oblique ; a postmedial 

 series of black points incurved to costa, then oblique, the point on 

 vein 2 displaced inwards ; an indistinct, pale, subterminal line 

 slightly defined on each side by fuscous, oblique from costa to 

 vein 5, then excurved at medial nervules ; the apex whitish ; 

 a terminal series of black points with larger spot above tornus. 

 Hindwing with oblique brown antemedial line ; an indistinct post- 

 medial series of white and black points excurved at median nervules ; 

 some slight subterminal and terminal black points ; cilia of both 

 wings brown, whitish at tips. 



Hah. Natal, Durban (Leigh). Exp. 18 mill. Type in B.M. 



