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from near angle of cell ; 6 from upper angle ; 9 from 10 anasto- 

 mosing with 8 to form the areole ; 1 1 from cell. Hind wing with 

 the termen produced to a slight lobe at vein 4 ; the cell nearly 

 half the length of wing ; veins 3, 4 from angle ; 5 from just 

 above angle ; 6, 7 from upper angle ; 8 anastomosing with the 

 cell near base only. 



Ctenusa pallida Hmpsn. Ann. S. Afr. Mus. ii. p. 321 (1902). 

 N.E. Rhodesia, Kalungwisi distr. 



Ctenusa rufirena, sp. n. (PL XXXVII. fig. 12.) 



5 . Head fiery red, the vertex and tegulse chocolate-brown ; 

 palpi with dark line at sides ; thorax and abdomen yellow tinged 

 with rufous, the pectus in front and fringes of hair on fore legs 

 fiery red, the fore tibiae and tarsi fuscous in front, the former 

 irrorated with white. Fore wing yellow tinged with rufous and 

 irrorated with fuscous ; antemedial line indistinct, red slightly 

 defined on inner side by yellow, curved ; reniform rufous defined 

 by yellow, an oblique red striga above it from costa ; postmedial 

 line red slightly defined on outer side by yellow and with dark 

 striga from costa, excurved below costa, then waved ; sub- 

 terminal line yellow, almost str-aight ; a series of slight red points 

 before termen ; cilia red with fine yellow lines at base and middle. 

 Hind wing yellow tinged with rufous and irrorated with fuscous, 

 the costal area whitish to beyond middle ; a minutely waved 

 fuscous postmedial line ; a faint broad fuscous subterminal shade ; 

 cilia with fine yellow lines at base and middle. Underside of 

 fore wing with blackish discoidal striga, hind wing with point, 

 both wings with fuscous subterminal shade. 



Hob. X.W. Rhodesia, Alala plateau, Xdola distr. (Weave), 

 1 2 type. Exp. 54 mm. 



Grammodes geometrica Fabr. Syst. Ent. p. 599 (1775). 



Congo, Katanga, Kambove ; N.W. Rhodesia, Alala plateau ; 

 N.E. Rhodesia, Kalungwisi valley, Chambezi valley, Luangwa 

 valley, E. Luangwa distr., Chinsali distr., Bangweolo distr. 



Grammodes stolida Fabr. Syst. Ent. p. 599 (1775). 

 Portuguese E. Africa, Chinde. 



Grammodes euclidicola Wlk. xiv. 1438 (1858). 

 Congo, Katanga, Kambove. 



Grammodes benitensis Holl. Psyche, vii. p. 85. pi. ii. f. 25 

 (1894). 



X.E. Rhodesia, Kalungwisi distr., Mansya R. 



Grammodes delta Boiscl. Faun. Ent. Madag. & Maur., Lep. 

 p. 105, pi. 13. f. 1 (1883). 



N.E. Rhodesia, E. Luangwa distr., Chambezi valley. 



