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series of slight pale points. Hind wing pure wliite ; a terminal 

 blackish patch between veins 6 and 2 enaitting slight streaks on the 

 veins and connected by slight dark marks on termen with a spot at 

 vein 1 ; cilia white with slight fuscous marks at base at veins 5 

 to 2. Underside of fore wing white, a blackish postmedial band, 

 the terminal area blackish except towards tornus. 



Hab. Be. E. Africa, Athi-ya-Mawe (Betton), 1 5 ; Naial, 

 Estcourt {Hutchinson), 1 9 ? Durban (Tinmen), 1 $ ; Cafe Colony, 

 Queenstown. Ecvp. 44-54 millim. 



b. Fore wing of male without silky androconia on underside. 



7334. Audea stenoplisea, n. sp. 



S ■ Head black, the basal joint of antennae ochreous ; tegulae 

 black with some ochreous scales at tips ; thorax ochreous mixed 

 with black ; abdomen ochreous white wdth some fuscous suffusion 

 except at base and lateral series of black spots. Fore wing black- 

 brown mixed with some whitish, the basal area blacker ; traces of 

 an oblique sinuous antemedial line and of a discoidal striga ; post- 

 medial Jiue hardly traceable, oblique from eosta to vein 6, then 



'Fig.12.— Audea sfenophcea, cJ. j. 



erect ; cilia with a white patch just below apex. Hind wing pure 

 white with a terminal black band from apex to vein 2 ; cilia white 

 with slight brown marks at veins 2 and 1. Underside of fore wing 

 white, the costal edge black, a fuscous brown postmedial band from 

 costa to submedian fold, the terminal area fuscous except towards 

 tornus ; hind wing with blackish spot at middle of costa. 



Rab. Madras, Palni Hills {Camphell), 1 S type. Exp. 46 

 millim. 



