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margin ; postmedial line blackish, oblique from costs to vein 6, 

 then dentate and produced to points on the veins, incurved below 

 vein 4; subterminal line vrhitish, defined on inner side by dark 

 brown suffusion, excurved below vein 7 and at middle and incurved 

 at submedian fold. Hind wing greyish suffused with brown, the 

 apical area slightly darker ; the underside with the costal area 

 suffused and irrorated with brown, a dark discoidal lunule and 

 faint diffused postmedial line from costa to vein 4. 



Ilah. U.S.A., Distr. of Columbia, Washington, 1 J, Ohio, 

 Illinois, Quincy {Polmg), 1 c5^ , 1 § , W. Virginia, Florida. Exp. 

 26-30 milJim. 



Larva. Head small, thickly reticulated with dark brown. Body 

 robust, joint 13 enlarged ; obscure brown with a narrow linear 

 M'hitish dorsal line ; a series of faint oblique subdorsal streaks, the 

 dorsum reddish-shaded, with brown triangular spots on the poste- 

 rior edges of the segments ; a large brown lateral spot on joint 13 ; 

 substigmatal band broad, pale, with a series of brown spots below ; 

 cervical shield concolorous. — H. G. D. 



4009. Athetis smintha. (Plate CXXXI. fig. 1.) 



Caradrina smintha, Hmpsu. Ann. S. Afr. Mas. ii. p. 305 (1902). 



(J . Head and thorax reddish brown tinged with grey ; abdomen 

 rufous, whitish at base. Fore wing grey-brown with slight dark 

 irroration ; subbasal line indistinct, blackish, from costa to sub- 

 median fold ; antemedial line black, interrupted, oblique, sinuous ; 

 orbicular a black point; reniform slightly defined by black at sides 

 only ; traces of a dark medial shade, oblique from costa to lower 

 angle of cell, then inwardly oblique; postmedial line blackish, bent 

 outwards below costa, then produced to slight streaks on the veins; 

 excurved to vein 4, then oblique ; subterminal line faintly defined 

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

 at middle; a terminal series of slight black striae ; a fine pale line 

 at base of costa. Hind wing white, the costal area suffused with 

 brown ; the underside with the costal area irrorated with brown 

 towards apex, a slight discoidal point. 



$ . Hind wing with the terminal area more or less suffused 

 with fuscous. 



Hab. Xatal, Maritzburg (Bivnup), 1 J ; C. Colony, Transkei 

 (3liss F. Barrett), 1 c? , 1 $ type. E.vp. 28-36 millim. 



Larva. Greyish thickly mottled with brown and with pale seg- 

 mental bands ; subdorsal line indistinct, pale, edged by black marks 

 above, with more prominent marks on 2nd somite and small pale 

 spot on 3rd somite ; lateral line indistinct, pale, edged with brown 

 above and with brown marks above it ; stigmata blackish ; ventral 

 surface paler ; head red-brown. 



