316 NOCTUIDiE. 



slightly ringed with white. Fore wing pale grey-brown with a 

 cupreous gloss, the veins somewhat darker ; subbasal line repre- 

 sented by a black striga from costa and spot below the cell ; ante- 

 medial line black, with black spot at costa, slightly angled outwards 

 below costa and in submedian fold and inwards on median nervure 

 and vein 1 ; orbicular fuscous defined by some white scales, round ; 

 reniform with pale centre defined by fuscous, with slight white 

 annulus, constricted at middle and angled inwards on median 

 nervure ; a slight oblique sinuous medial line from lower angle of 

 cell to inner margin; postmedial line black, bent outwards below 

 costa, then dentate and produced to black points on the veins, 

 oblique below vein 4 ; subterminal line indistinct, ochreous defined 

 on inner side by fuscous suffusion, angled outwards at vein 7 and 

 excurved at middle ; a terminal series of black striae ; cilia fuscous 

 mixed with greyish. Hiiid wing white, the costal area suffused 

 w^ith brown, the veins and a fine terminal line broivn ; cilia brown 

 with a fine white line at base, wholly white towards tornus ; the 

 xmderside with the costal area irrorated with brown. 



Hab. Natal, Maritsburg (QuecJcetf), 1 (S type. E.vp. 24 millim. 



3935. Athetis prsetexta. (Plate CXXIX. fig. 23.) 



Caraclrina prcetexta, Swiiih. A. M. N. H. (7) xv. p. 152 (1905). 



Head and thorax grey tinged with brown ; palpi blackish at sides 

 except at tips ; tarsi blackish ringed with w"hite ; abdomen grey 

 suffused with dark brown, the anal tuft of male yellow. Fore wing 

 grey-white irrorated and in parts suffused with red-brown ; sub- 

 basal line double filled in with whitish, waved, from costa to sub- 

 median fold ; antemedial line double filled in with whitish, angled 

 outwards below costa and excurved below submedian fold ; orbicular 

 a black point defined by whitish ; reniform chocolate-brown with 

 whitish annulus, constricted at middle and slightly angled inwards 

 on median nervure ; a waved dark medial shade ; postmedial line 

 double filled in with whitish, slightly bent outwards below costa, 

 then produced to double black points on the veins, oblique below 

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

 whitish defined on inner side by red-brown, slightlj^ angled out- 

 wards below costa and excurved at middle; terminal area suffused 

 with brown ; a terminal series of small black lunules slightly 

 defined on inner side b}- whitish : cilia brown with a waved white 

 line through them. Hind wing greyish suffused with brown, an 

 indistinct discoidal lunule ; a terminal series of slight dark lunules 

 from apex to vein 2 ; cilia yellowish white with a brown line 

 through them ; the underside greyish irrorated with brown, a large 

 dark discoidal spot, minutely waved postmedial line, incurved below 

 vein 2, traces of a subterminal band and a tei'minal series of small 

 black lunules. 



Hah. Assam, Khiisis, 1 c? , 1 $ type. Eay. 32 millim. 



