238 ME. E. m'lachlan oisr new species etc. of netjeoptera. 



Thorax supra rufo-fulvus, sparse nigro pilosus, vitta media nigra 

 (raetathorax albido pilosus) ; infra (et supra utrinque) intense niger. 

 Alse latse, apicibus acutiusculis : anticse fulvse, subhyalinse, margine 

 apicali late bnuineo ; punctis costalibus dorsalibusque (ad basin), 

 nonnuUisque discalibus pone medium, nigris ; maculis duabus magnis 

 basin versus, fascia interrupta ante medium, macula costali permagna 

 pone medium, fasciaque apicali nigris ; venis venulisque testaceis, in 

 maculis nigris : posticse albse, maculis duabus oppositis basalibus, 

 macula costali ante apicem fasciisque duabus, latissimis, quarum una 

 ante medium, altera pone medium cum prima vix confluente, circum 

 marginem apicalem extensa, nigris. Pedes intense nigri. Abdomen 

 rufo-brunneum. § . Long. corp. 2" 4'" ; exp. alar. 5" 8'". 



Hab. in Africa australi?. In collect, auct. 



Antennce nearly as long as the thorax, the club attenuated, black. Head 

 greyish ; the vertex strongly inflated, with a deep longitudinal im- 

 pressed line, a black median vitta expanding in front in form of an Y, 

 and with a small black dot on each side ; face yellow, somewhat 

 reddish round the eyes ; palpi black, the labial very long and slender, 

 the terminal joint abruptly clavate and somewhat piceous at the ex- 

 treme apex. Eyes dark grej^ with darker streaks. Thorax reddish 

 fulvous, above with a median black vitta, the sides and the under sur- 

 face intensely black ; prothorax rather broader than long, dilated 

 posteriorly, clothed sparingly with black hairs; metathorax clothed 

 sparingly above and densely at the sides beneath with long white 

 pubescence. Wings broad, acute at the apex, the apical margin 

 slightly sinuated : anterior wings pale fulvous, subhyaline, the apical 

 margin broadly margined with brown ; the costal area with black spots 

 only on the margin at the base, afterwards also with several larger 

 oblique ones ; the median vein at the base, and the base of the dorsal 

 margin, with deep black spots ; and there are numerous small blackish 

 dots towards the apex and on the disk ; a large black blotch near the 

 base below the radius, a smaller one at the postcostal furcation on the 

 dorsal margin ; before the middle a very large black blotch below 

 the radius, more or less connected with a dorsal one and forming a 

 somewhat interrupted fascia ; beyond the middle a still larger black 

 blotch extended to the costal mai'gin and reaching more than half 

 across the wing ; a clouded blackish fascia formed of two connected 

 spots just before the apex ; costal vein black, the other veins and 

 veinlets reddish testaceous, but black where they traverse the black 

 markings : posterior wings white, pinkish towards the apex ; a few 

 black spots on the basal portion of the dorsal margin ; a large black 

 blotch near the base, opposite to a smaller one at the postcostal 

 furcation on the dorsal margin ; a broad black fascia before the middle 

 much dilated on the dorsal margin ; another broad black fascia beyond 

 the middle, with a furcation more or less confluent with the first fascia, 

 and an extension round the apical margin ; a large black spot on the 



