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red-brown. Fore wing white irrorated with red-brown, the basal 

 ai-ea escept at inner margin and the terminal area suifased with 

 red-brown, the outer part of medial area and the inner medial area 

 whiter; traces of a sinuous dark snbbasal line from costa to sub- 

 median iold; antemedifil line black, oblique, waved ; reniform a 

 small lunule indistinctly defined by brown ; a black looped line from 

 middle of costa to below the cell enclosing the reniform, its inner 

 edge slightly waved, its outer slightly waved to vein 6, angled 

 outwards at discal fold, then oblique to below the cell ; postmedial 

 line black, dentate, oblique to vein 6 and inwardly obli(]ue below 

 vein 4, some white points beyond it on costa ; a series of black 

 points before termen with white points beyond them. Hind wing 

 red-brown ; the cilia white at tips. Underside grey- white thickly 

 irrorated with red-brown; fore wing with some brown suffusion in 

 cell, a faint diffused ])ostmedial line from below costa to submedian 

 fold, and subtenninal shade ; hind wing with diffused slightly waved 

 subterminal line. 



Eah. Cape Coloxy, Plattenburg Bay, 1 5 • Exp. 56 millim. 



Genus CATEPHIODES. 



Type. 

 Catephiodes, Betb.-Bater, IVov. Zool. xv. p. 200 (1908) mecci. 



Proboscis fully developed ; palpi upturned, the 2nd joint reaching fo vertex of 

 bead and broadly scaled, ihe 3rd long and dilated at extremitj; fi-ons smootli, 

 with tuft of hair; eyes large, round; anteniife of female somewhat laminate 

 and almost simple ; thorax clothed with scales and hair mixed, the pro- and 

 inetathoras witli slight spreading crests ; tibia slightly fringed with jiair, the 

 raid and liind tibial spined ; abdomen with very large spreading crest at base 

 only. Fore wing witli the apex rounded, the termen evenly curved and 

 strongly crenulate, the inner margin with large sciile-teeth at middle and near 

 tornus ; veins o and 5 from near angle of cell; (i from upper angle ; 9 from 

 10 anastomosing with 8 to form the areote ; 11 from ceil. Hind wing with 

 the cell about half the length of wing ; veins 3, 4, 5 from lower angle of cell ; 

 6, 7 i'rom upper angle ; S anastomosing with the cell near base only. 



*7608. Catephiodes meeci. 



Catephiodes meeJci, Beth. -Baker, Nov. Zool. xv. p. 201 (1908). 



$ . Head and thorax dark brown mixed with some rufous ; an- 

 tennas with the basal joint whitish in front; small tufts of white scales 

 above the ej-es ; patagia with a few silvery blue scales, their outer 

 edge rufous ; pectus with some grey, whitish behind, the tibiae at 

 extremity and tarsi ringed with ochreous ; abdomen dark brown, 

 the basal crest rtifous, the ventral surface whitish at base. Fore 

 wing dark brown mixed with rufous and with a slight silvery blue 

 gloss especially on the veins ; subbasal line black defined on outer 

 side by rufous, from costa to vein 1 ; antemedial line black defined 

 on each side by rufous, oblique, excurved below costa and above 

 inner margin and incurved between those points ; orbicular black 

 with rufous annulus, small, round ; reniform rufous, elliptical ; a 

 vol.. sir. 2 1 



