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of two ochreous lines of same shape as in jjolymorpha^ divided 

 by a feiTuginous line, and defined outwardly by a prominent 

 black line from costa to inner margin, and inwardly by a broad 

 diffused red-brown band. The " fine red-brown terminal line " 

 of pohjmorpha represented in this form by a fuscous inwardly 

 diffused band. Hind wing with the distal and terminal areas 

 suffused with red-brown a.nd much darker than in polymorj^ha. 



Habitat. Kedai, 12th Nov. 1911, 1 $; 7th April, 1912, 1 ?. 

 Exp. 34 mm. 



182. Anticarsia irrorata Fabricius. 



Habitat. Kedai, 11th April, 1912, 1 J. Masongaleni, 5th 

 June, 1911, 1 S ; 3rd June, 1 $ . 



A very variable species. The Masongaleni specimens are 

 suffused with fuscous. 



This genus has until recently been known as Thermesia 

 Hiibner. 



183. Brevipecten corxNUTA, Hampson, Ann. S. Afr. Mus. ii. 

 p. 404(1902). 



Habitat. Kedai, 8fch Dec. 1912, 1 §. 



184. Brevipecten clearchus, sp. n. (PI. I. fig. 31.) 



Description. — $ . Head and thorax greyish ochreous, abdomen 

 ochreous ; palpi red-brown above, whitish beneath and at ex- 

 tremity of third joint ; pectus and legs whitish. Fore wing 

 greyish ochreous with a pinkish suffusion. Antemedial line 

 outwardly oblique to submedian interspace, wheie it runs 

 parallel with inner margin to meet the postniedial line. Reni- 

 form outwardly indistinct, but defined inwardly by the outer 

 edge of a dark red- brown costal spot. A medial incurved line 

 from below reniform to inner margin. Postmedial line pale, 

 defined by tine black lines, outwardly excurved to vein 5, then 

 recurved to inner margin, and immediately beyond it a dark 

 red-brown subapical spot on the costn, from the outer edge of 

 which arises a, straight indistinct subterminal line. A series 

 of black terminal points on the veins. Cilia bright ochreous. 

 Hind wing pale ochreous, darker towards the apex and along 

 the termen to vein 2. Undei'side pale ochreous, with indistinct 

 postmedial lines and a dark discoidal spot on hind wing. 



Habitat. Kedai, 7th April, 1912, 1 $ ; 27th Kov. 1912, 1 2- 

 Exp. 32 mm. 



Diflers from cornvta in its larger size, want of pearly irro- 

 ration, and in the postmedial line not being angled outwuidly 

 on vein 4 as in that species. 



185. CAi.PE cerxe, sp. n. (PI. J. fig. 22.) 



• Desa-iptimi: — $. Head and tegula? orange red-bl■o^^■n, the 

 head with some tiery orange crests at base of antenna". Thorax 



