.'J52 NOCTtJJDiE. 



wing greyish thicl^l^- suffused and irrorated Avith fuscous Ijrown ; 

 subhasal line blackish, Avaved, from cosfa to submedian fold ; ante- 

 medial line indistinct, dark, oblique from costa to median nervure, 

 then slightly incurved ; orbicular a somewhat oblique black spot 

 touching the antemedial linti ; reniform rather oblique elliptical with 

 small black spot on upper edge ard two at lower extremity ; a rather 

 diffused dark line from lower angle of cell to innermargin : postmedial 

 line indistinct, dark, defined by whitish on outer side, excurved from 

 costa to vein 4, then oblique ; a faint pale curved subterrainal line 

 defined by some black scales on inner side ; a terminal series of 

 slight black points : a fine white line at base of cilia. Hind wing 

 white; the underside with the costal area slightly irrorated with 

 brown, a black discoidal point. 



Hah. Mashonaland, Salisbury {^Marshall), 1 J fype. Exp. 30 

 millim. 



3993. Athetis glauca. (Plate CXXX. fig. 24.) 

 Caradrina glauca, Hmpsn. Ami. S. Afr. Miis. ii. p. 304 (1902). 



Head and thorax brown mixed with grey ; pal[)i black, white at 

 tips; tarsi brown ringed with white ; abdomen grey suffused with 

 brown. Pore wing grej'-brown slightly irrorated with white and 

 with faint ochreous streaks in discal and submedian folds; subbasal 

 line blackish, waved, from costa to submedian fold ; antemedial line 

 blackish, oblique, sinuous, angled outwards in submedian fold and 

 inwards on vein 1 ; orbicular a small round blackish spot; reniform 

 small, defined by blackish and rather constricted at middle ; post- 

 medial line black, bent outwards below costa, then dentate and 

 produced to white points on the veins, excurved to vein 4, then 

 incurved ; subtcrminal line faint, whitish, slightly defined on inner 

 .*:ide by fnscous suffusion, excurved below vein 7 and at middle ; a 

 terminal series of black stripe. Hind wing pure white, the costal 

 area and veins of terminal area tinged with brown, a fine brown 

 terminal line; the underside wirh the costal area suflTused with 

 brown and irrorated with white, traces of a punctiform postmedial 

 line from costa to vein 3. 



Ab. 1. Fore wing with the orbicular elongate. 



Hah. Br. E. Africa, Machakoe {Craivsliay), 5 J, Kikuyu 

 iCrcnvshay), 1 $ , Eb Urru (Betton), 1 $ ; Transvaal (Pead), 1 cT , 

 Piet Ptetief (CrausJiay), 2 J, Johannesburg (Coulee), 1 5 ; Natal, 

 Estcourt (Hutchinson), 1 J , 1 $ type. Exj^. 24-32 millim. 



3994. Athetis melanephra, n. sp. (Plate CXXX. fig. 25.) 



Head and thorax fuscous mixed with grey-white; paljawith the 

 third joint whitish ; antenuse whitish; tegulse tipped with white; 



