300 



N0CTl'ID,?5. 



l)lack defined by greyish on outer side, strongly bent outwards 

 below costa, then minutely dentate and strongly incurved below 

 vein 4, some white points beyond it on costa ; subterminal line 

 slight, greyish, defined on inner side by black suffusion, minutely 

 waved, angled outwards at vein 7 and excurved at middle; a 

 lunulate black terminal line; cilia greyish fuscous with a black 

 line near base. Hind wing white tinged with brown especially on 

 terminal area ; cilia whitish with a fuscous line near base ; the 

 unilerside whitish, the costal and terminal areas suffused and 

 irrorated with fuscous, a small discoidal spot and curved post- 

 medial line from costa to vein 4. 



Huh. Basdtoland, Machaka (CnnvsJuiy), 5 J, 1 5 type. Ed-^y. 

 34 millim. 



3915. Athetis albipuncta. (Plate CXXIX. fig. 9.) 



Scsamia alhipuncta, Hmpsn. Aun. S. Afr. Mus. ii. p. 297 (1902). 



c? . Head, thorax, and abdomen greyish suffused with dark brown ; 

 palpi with the 2nd joint blackish behind, fore legs blackish above. 

 Fore wing cupreous brown; traces of a curved antemedial line 

 from cell to inner margin ; a white discoidal spot with short 

 blackish streak before and beyond it in discal fold ; traces of a 

 curved postmedial line. Hind wing greyish suffused with brown 

 with a slight reddish tinge; the underside paler irrorated with 

 dark brown, the apical area suffused with fuscous, a dark discoidal 

 lunula and diffused curved postmedial line. 



Hah. C. Colony, Trauskei {Miss F. Barrett), 1 cJ type. Exp. 

 30 millim. 



Sect. II. Antenna; of male bipectinate with very short branches, the apex 

 serrate. 



3916. Athetis caeca. 



Charidea cceca, Huipsn. Ann. S. Afr. Mus. ii. p. 442 (1902). 



S . Head and thorax grey mixed with fuscous brown ; palpi and 

 frons black-brown, the former with pale ring at extremity of 2nd 

 joint ; abdomen grey tinged with brown, ventrally blackish irrorated 



-Tig. ^2.— Athetis caca , S . \. 



with~grey. Fore wing grey suffused and thickly irrorated with 

 brown ; subbasal line represented by slight double black stripe from 

 costa ; antemedial line slight, black, bent inwards in cell, then 

 sinuous; claviform an elongate black patch ; orbicular and reniform 



