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line. Claviform short and thick, black. A black line on inner 

 margin from base below vein 1 to antemedial line. No ochreous 

 white fascia on medial part of inner margin. Orbicular and 

 reniform large, extending over costa, pinkish defined outwardly 

 by indistinct ochreous. Postuiedial line excurved round reni- 

 form and thence straight to inner margin — a thick black line. 

 An indistinct subapical spot below costa. Hind wing white with 

 some ochreous irroration near the apex. Underside pale ochreous, 

 with discocellnlar spots and diftused postmedial lines. 



This form differs from vittigera Hampson, from Mashonaland 

 and Natal, in being without the ochreous-white fascia on medial 

 part of inner margin, that part of the wing being concolorous 

 with the remainder ; also in the following characters : — the 

 orbicular and reniform are larger and spread out over the costa, 

 and are pinkish in colour ; the ante- and postmedial lines are 

 thick black single lines, not double lines filled in with ochreous ; 

 the subterminal area beyond the postmedial line is plain pinkish 

 brown, without a trace of any marks save a small subapical spot 

 below the costa. 



It also differs from alhivitta Hampson (0. L. P. v. p. 206) in 

 being without the whitish fascia above the claviform, which 

 species is also recorded from British East Africa. 



Habitat. Kedai, 8th December, 1911, 1 S . Expanse 30 mm. 



Subfamily Acronyctin^. 



258. Perigea capensis Guen. Noct. i. p. 213 (1852). 

 Habitat. Masongaleni, 22nd June, 1911, 1 c?. 



259. Laphygma exempta Walker, Cat. x. p. 355 (1856). 

 Habitat. Kedai, 1911, 24th November, 1 J ; 25th November, 



2 S. 



260. Parastichtis oxylus, sp. n. (PI. I. fig. 22.) 



Description. — d" . Head, thorax, abdomen, and fore wing dark 

 red-brown with black-brown markings. Fore wing : subbasal 

 and antemedial lines only represented by strig?e on the costa. 

 Orbicular and reniform defined by fine black lines with a dark 

 shade on and below the costa between them ; an irregular dentate 

 postmedial line angled inwardly above veins 4 and 6, and out- 

 Avardly at veins 4 and 3, with some black lines running from it 

 to the outer margin. A black band starting fi-om base under 

 vein 1, angled up to vein 2, and running below it to postmedial 

 line, and thence on to outer margin. Hind wing pale ochreous 

 basally and fuscous towards the apex. Cilia of fore wing black 

 and ochreous chequered, of hind wing whitish. Underside pale 

 ochreous. 



Habitat. Kedai, 19th November, 1911, 1 J. Expanse 34 mm. 



