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Sect. II. Autenuai of male without erect hairs on upperside of shaft towards 

 base. 

 A. Fore wing of male on upperside with fringe of large scales from costa 

 from base to end of cell. 



7337. Audea melanoplaga. 



Aiidea melanoplaga^ Hmpsn. Ann. S. Afr. Mus. ii. p. 328 (1902). 



S ' Head, shoulders, and outer edge of patagia black, the back 

 of head with some whitish ; dorsum of thorax white mixed with 

 brown ; pectus white ; legs blackish, the fore and mid femora 

 fulvous above, the tarsi ringed with white ; abdomen white irrorated 

 with fuscous, the extremity fuscous, the ventral surface pure white 

 with the extremity fulvous. Fore wing white irrorated with 

 fuscous, the discal area whiter, the terminal area suffused with 

 fuscous ; an antemedial blackish bar on inner area ; a fine Avhite 

 line at base of cilia. ILind wing pure white, the terminal area 



Fig. 15.~ Audea melanoplaga, (^ . 



black from apex to vein 2 where it narrows to a point, emitting on 

 inner side slight streaks on the veins ; cilia white with some fuscous 

 at base from apex to vein 2. Underside of fore wing white, the 

 terminal area broadly fuscous shading to greyish, the costal edge 

 black, a large black patch on costa beyond middle ; hind wing 

 with the costal edge black, the costal area slightly irrorated with 

 fuscous. 



$ . Tegulae and shoulders black, the patagia not black on outer 

 side ; abdomen white to extremity ; fore wing whiter to beyond 

 middle, the costal area black to near middle and with wedge-shaped 

 black patch beyond middle, an antemedial black point on median 

 nervure and wedge-shaped patch on inner area, a punctiform black 

 postmedial line arising from the costal patch and somewhat oblique 



