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by bright ochreous). Subtermiiml a,rea. of liind wing in some 

 specimens with a broad fuscous band, inwardly much diffused. 

 Underside of fore wing with diffused fuscous subterminal band. 



Habitat. Hermione, Kedai, 1911, 9th Nov., 1 (S , 25th Nov., 1 S 

 (type); 1912, 9th March, 2 J, 15 th Marcli, 2 J . Masongaleni, 

 19 LI, 25th April, Id- 



OcHREATA, Kedai, 1911, 24th Nov., 3 J (inch type). Mason- 

 galeni, 1911, 28th March, 1 ? , 2nd April, 1 $ . 



Exp. 38 mm. 



156. Grammodes stolida Fabricius, Syst. Ent. p. 599 (1775), 

 Habitat. Kedai, 12th Dec. 1911, 1 d . 



157. Remigiodes remigina Mabille, C. R. Soc. Eiit. Belg. 

 xxviii. p. cxci. (1884). 



Habitat. Kedai, 12th Dec. 1911, 1 2 ■ Masongaleni, 14th May, 

 1911, IS; 25th Nov. 1911, 1 S (the last is a very black 

 specimen). 



158. Pericyma umbrina Guen. Noct, iii. p, 4 (1852). 



Habitat. Kedai, 10th Dec. 1912, Id'- Hitherto only recorded 

 from India. 



159. CoRTYTA REMTGiANA Hampson, C. L. p. xii. p. 312 (1913). 

 Hahitat. Kedai, 24th Nov. 1911, 1 2 ; 28th Nov., 1 J • 



4th Jan. 1913, 1 J. 



160. CoRTYTA BALNEARiA Distant, A. M, N. H. (7) i. p. 228 

 (1898). 



Habitat, Kedai, 25th Dec. 1911, 1 $ . 



Hitherto recorded only from the Transvaal and Mashonaland. 



161. CoRTYTA vetusta Walker, Cat. xxxiii. p. 875 (1865). 

 Habitat. Kedai, 12th Nov. 1911, 1 $. 



162. Cortyta minyas, sp. n. 



Description. — S $ . Head and thorax greyish ochreous. Abdo- 

 men ochreous. Fore wing : basal area pale ferruginous ; subbasal 

 line represented by an indistinct black striga from costa to vein 1. 

 Antemedial line black and waved, with a bright ferruginous band 

 inside it on the basal area. Medial area between ante- and post- 

 medial lilies grey, with indistinct waved bands of fuscous irroration. 

 Reniform ochreous indistinctly defined. Postmedial line black, 

 outwardly oblique below costa, sharply angled outwardly at veins 6, 

 4, and 3, and inwai"dly on discal fold and interspace 2, and thence 

 straight to inner margin, Subterminal area pale ferruginous, 

 with two fuscous subapical spots between veins 6, 7, and 8 in the 

 interspaces, one between veins 3 and 4, and one on inner margin 

 before tornus. Two diffused grey subterminal patches between 



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