244 KOCTUID^. 



M-ith large flattened tuft of scales above; e.ves large, round ; antennce of male 

 with fasciculate cilia ; thorax clothed almost entirely with scales and without 

 crests; tibite moderately fringed with hair; fore tibia; not spined, the hind 

 tibiae spined between the medial and terminal spurs only ; abdomen smootiily 

 scaled and without crests. Fore wing rather long and narrow, the apex 

 rounded, the termen evenly curved and not crenulate ; veins 3 and 5 from 

 near angle of cell ; 6 from upper angle ; 9 from 10 anastomosing with 8 to 

 form the areole ; 11 from cell. Hind wing with the cell more than half the 

 length of wing ; veins 3, 4 from angle ; 5 fully developed from just above 

 angle; 6, 7 from upper angle; 8 anastomosing with the cell near base only. 



A. Fore wing with the postmedial line retracted to lower angle 



of cell. 



o. Hind wing wholly tinged with brown nigristria. 



h. Hind wing white, the termen suffused with brown. 



a}. Fore wing with the lines not defined by yellow, a small 



white spot beyond lower angle of cell retracta. 



/ji. Fore wing with the lines defined by yellow, no small 



white spot beyond lower angle of cell indecisa. 



B. Fore wing with the postmedial line not retracted to lower 



angle of cell ochrihaxalis. 



7365. Hypotacha nigristria. (Plate CCIII. fig. 3.) 



Audea nigristria, Hmpsn. Ann. S. Afr. Mus. ii. p. 329 (1902). 



2 . Head and thorax brown tinged with purplish grey and with 

 a few blackish scales ; palpi and lower part of frons blackish ; 

 tegulee with blackish medial band ; pectus and legs blackish, the 

 tarsi ringed with wliitish ; abdomen brownish grey irrorated with 

 fuscous. Fore wing grey-brown slightly suffused with fuscous ; 

 subbasal line black, sinuous, fi'om costa to subraedian fold ; ante- 

 medial line black, oblique and slightly sinuous to submedian fold, 

 then incurved ; a slight blackish mark at middle of costa and 

 strong black streak in end of cell ; postmedial line black, excurved 

 from below costa to just above vein 3, then retracted to the streak 

 in end of cell and oblique to inner margin ; subterminal line very 

 indistinct, pale faintly defined on inner side by fuscous, slightly 

 angled outwards at vein 7, then minutely waved ; the interspaces 

 of terminal area with slight black streaks ; a fine terminal black 

 line. Hind wing ochreous white, the inner aiea tinged with 

 brown, the terminal area suffused with brown ; cilia ochreous 

 white ; the underside irrorated with fuscous especially on costal 

 and terminal arens, a faint discoidal spot. 



Hah. Cape Colony, Transkei (Miss F. Barrett), 1 $ type. ^.rp. 

 40 millim. 



7366. Hypotacha retracta. 



Audea retracta, Hmpsn. Ann. S. Afr. Mus. ii. p. 329 (1902). 



Head and thorax grey mixed with brown and fuscous ; palpi 

 white in front towards base ; lower part of frons blackish ; abdo- 

 men ochreous white dorsally tinged with brown. Fore wing grej'- 

 white mixed witb brown and fuscous, the veins streaked with 

 blackish ; a slight subbasal brown striga from costa and oblique 



