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B. Antennae of male without fasciculate cilia ; tibiae moderately fringed with 

 hair, the fore cox£B tufted with hair, 

 a. Antennae of male with four small tile-like tufts of hair on upperside of 

 shaft four-fifths from base; the fore tibite with group of long spines 

 on inner side at extremity. 



7335. Audea tegulata. 



Audea tegulata, Hmpsn. Ann. S. Afr. Mus. ii. p. 325 (1902). 



Head and thorax black-brown mixed with grey-white ; palpi 

 and frons black-brown ; pectus brownish white; tarsi black ringed 

 with white ; abdomen grey tinged with red-brown and with white 

 segmental lines, the ventral surface white irrorated with brown. 

 Fore wing grey-white thickly irrorated with black-brown ; subbasal 

 line represented by an oblique black bar from costa ; antemedial 

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

 then sinuous and indistinct, a black point before it in cell ; a curved 

 black discoidal striga ; pastmedial line black, oblique and slightly 



Fig. 13. — Audea tegulata, J, \. 



sinuous to below vein 6, then erect and waved, a rather diffused 

 curved minutely waved line beyond it ; a series of slight black 

 lunulas just before termen defined on outer side by whitish ; cilia 

 black at base, chequered black and white at tips. Hind wing 

 white, the veins and inner area tinged with ochreous brown ; the 

 terminal area fuscous brown, narrowing to tornus ; cilia brownish 

 at base, white at tips. Underside of fore wing brownish white, 

 the costa black, a curved dark postmedial shade, the terminal area 

 fuscous except towards tornus ; hind wing whitish, a slight dark 

 postmedial spot on costa, a fuscous terminal band from apex to 

 below vein 2, leaving slight whitish marks on termen. 



Hah. Mashonaland, Salisbury {Marshall), 1 (5' , 1 $ type. Exjp. 

 6 46, $ 50 millim. 



