348 xocTUJD.i;. 



3985. Athetis singula. (Plate CXXX. fig. 17.) 



Caradrina shignla, Moschl. Verli. zool.-bol. Ges. Wien, xxxiii. p. 292, 

 pi. xvi. f. 6 (1883). 



Head and thorax rufous; palpi black, whitish at tips ; antenna? 

 black except basal joint ; pectus and legs ochreous mixed with 

 fuscous, the tarsi black ringed with white ; abdomen pale rufous 

 tinged with fuscous. Fore wing yellowish suffused with rufous ; 

 subbasal line black, escnrved below costa and ending at submedian 

 fold; antemedial line black with small spot at costa, slightly angled 

 outwards below costa, excurved below cell and above inner margin and 

 angled inwards on vein 1 ; orbicular an indistinct round fuscous 

 spot; reniform fuscous with small ochreous white lunule on its 

 outer edge, usuall}^ with points above and below it ; medial line 

 diffused, fuscous, oblique from costa to lower angle of cell, then 

 incurved; postmedial line black with small spot at costa, bent 

 outwards below costa, then minutely dentate and produced to slight 

 streaks on the veins, excurved to vein 4, then incurved ; sub- 

 lerminal line defined by fuscous suffusion on inner side, angled 

 outwards at vein 7 and excurved at middle; a terminal series of 

 black points with white points on their inner side ; cilia greyish 

 fuscous with fine pale lines at base and middle. Hind wing white, 

 the costal area and tcrmen to vein 2 tinged with ochreous brown, 

 a fine brown terminal line ; cilia brownish at apex ; the underside 

 with the costal area irrorated with brown, a blackish discoidal spot, 

 slight postmedial line on costal area, and black terminal line. 



Hah. Mashonaland, Salisbury {Marshall, Bobbie), 1 c? , 3 5 : 

 BBCnuANALAND, jSF'Gami (Lugarcl), 1 J" : Natal, Maritzburg 

 (Burnuj)), 1 d , 1 $ , Duff Eoad, 1 J ; C. Colony, Caffraria. 

 Ex2J. 28-30 millim. 



3986. Athetis heliastis, n. sp. (Plate CXXX. fig. 18.) 



S . Head whitish ; palpi black, white at tips and with black 

 point on 3rd joint ; frons with lateral black spots ; antennae 

 blackish ; thorax black-brown with a slight greyish tinge ; pectus 

 and legs grey mixed with black, the tarsi black ringed with white ; 

 abdomen fuscous mixed with grey. Fore wing black-brown 

 irrorated with grey ; subbasal line black slightly defined by 

 ochreous on outer side, from costa to submedian fold, a white point 

 beyond it in cell : antemedial line black with ochreous point on 

 costa, oblique, waved; orbicular with ochreous points on inner and 

 outer edges ; reniform a small round orange spot with ochreous point 

 oninnerside above, white point on outer, and three w^hite points below 

 all defined by black ; a faint dark line from lower angle of cell to 

 inner margin ; postmedial line indistinct, blackish slightly defined 

 by grey on outer side, bent outwards below costa, then with black 

 points beyond it on the veins, excurved to vein 4, then incurved, 

 some while points beyond it on costa ; subterminal line represented 

 by a series of faint pale points, excurved below vein 7 and at middle; 



