286 NOCTUIDiE. 



vein '3, angled outwards at vein 7 and inwai'ds at vein 5 ; a ter- 

 minal white band with fine dark lines just before and on termen ; 

 cilia pale brown with a fine dark line through them. Hind wing 

 pure white, the apex faintly tinged with brown, the veins brown ; 

 a slight dark discoidal lunule ; the underside with the costal and 

 terminal areas to vein 2 irrorated with brown, a black discoidal 

 lunule and curved postmedial line from costa to submedian fold. 



Hub. Transvaal, White 11. (CooJce), 1 c? ; jSTatal, Mooi E,., 1 S; 

 Madagascar, Betsileo (^Coioaii), 2 J , 1 $ t3'pe gramimcolens. 

 Exp. 34-38 millim. 



Sect. II. Antennae of male laminate. 



3898. Mimleucania perstriata, n. sp. 



Head and thora.x grey-white tinged with brown ; palpi blackish ; 

 frons with black bars above and between antennte; tegalye with 

 black line near base and dark brown tips ; patagia with dark streak 

 on outer edge and some black scales above ; vertex of thorax with 

 black streak ; tibiae and tarsi with dark streaks ; abdomen whitish 

 tinged with brown except at base and with blackish dorsal streak 

 on basal segments. Fore wing whitish thickly irrorated with 

 brown and with a diffused brown fascia below the cell and thence 

 obliquely to termen below apex, defined by pure white above ; a 

 strong black streak below basal half of cell ; the veins with dark 

 streaks ; antemedial line obsolete on costal half, then slight, ex- 

 tremely strongly angled outwards in submedian fold and above 

 inner margin and inwards on vein 1 ; faint traces of a very obliiiue 

 orbicular stigma ; reniform represented by slight black striae at 



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Fig. 82. — Mimleucania perstriata, (^ . \. 



sides and a black streak with white streak above it below end of 

 cell ; postmedial line hardly traceable on costal half, more distinct 

 below vein 3, bent outwards below costa, oblique below vein 4 and 

 slightly angled inwards in submedian fold ; slight wedge-shaped 

 brown marks from termen above veins 7 and 3 and a stronger mark 

 on vein 2, with black streaks above and below vein 2 ; the extremity 

 of the veins defined by wedge-shaped white marks intersecting the 

 brown cilia ; a terminal series of slight black lunules. Hind wing 

 white, the veins of terminal half and the terminal area from apex 

 to vein 2 tinged with fuscous ; the underside with the costal area 

 and terminal area to vein 2 irrorated with fuscous. 



Hah. Orange River Coloni, Bloemfouteiu (//. F. Wilson), 3 cS , 

 1 $ . Kqy. 32-36 millim. 



