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produced, defined bj^ d^rk brown except above ; a brown post- 

 medial spot on costa and faint traces of a waved line excurved to 

 vein 4, then oblique ; subterrninal line whitish defined on outer 

 side by dark striae, slightly curved and very slightly waved ; a fine 

 pale line at base of cilia. Hind wing white tinged with red- 

 brown and with dark spot at extremity of vein 4 ; the underside 

 white. 



Ah. 1. varians. Thorax and fore wing grey white. 



Ab. 2. Thorax and fore wing pale yellow, the latter with the 

 terminal area whiter ; hind wing not tinged with brown, the 

 terminal area irrorated with brown ; abdomen not tinged with 

 brown but with faint rufous segmental lines. 



Ab. 3. Similar, but fore wing with the discoidal mark angled 

 inwards on median nervure to well before middle and much produced 

 at lower extremity. 



Ab. 4. Similar, but fore wing with the discoidal mark almost 

 obsolete. 



FTah. Damaealand, Swakop R., type t varians in Mus. Stock- 

 holm ; Br. Bechuanaland, Lake N'gami {Lugard), 3 (S ; Cape 

 CoLOKT {Sir A. Smith), 1 r? type. Exj}. 38-48 millim. 



7493. Acanthonyx pretoriae. (Plate CCXI. fig. 4.) 



ChalcioTpc pretoriw , Dist. Entoin. xxxv. p. 212 (1902). 



cJ . Head and tegulse rufous ; thorax and abdomen ochreous 

 slightly tinged with rufous and irrorated with a few brown scales. 

 Fore wing ochreous suffused with rufous and sparsely irrorated 

 with dark brown ; the subbasal line re^iresented by an oblique 

 striga below costa and point on median nervure; the antemedial 

 line obliquely curved from costa to median nervure, then incurved 

 and obsolescent ; a very large dark brown reniform stigma with 

 reddish brown mark on costa above it ; a postmedial spot on costa 

 and curved series of points on the veins ; subterrninal line curved 

 and very slightly waved; the inner line fi.ne and with slight points 

 on its inner side, the outer diffused and somewhat produced at the 

 veins ; a fine terminal line ; cilia pale with dai-k brown lines 

 through thera. Hind wing pale ochreous, the terminal area tinged 

 with red-brown ; a postmedial series of short dark streaks on the 

 veins. 



$ . Fore wing with the dark marks on costa and postmedial 

 series of points obsolete, the subterminal line not defined by 

 brown. 



Ab. 1. Thorax ochreous white, the tegulae tipped with red-brown ; 

 abdomen white with ochreous segmental lines ; fore wing ochreous 

 without rufous suffusion ; hind wing white, a terminal brown spot 

 at vein 4. — Zululand. 



Hah. Teansvaal, Lydenburgh, 1 $ , Pretoria, 1 <S type ; ZuLxr- 

 LAND ( Wilson), 1 c? . Exj). 58 millim. 



