314 NOCTUID.E. 



«■''. Fove wing with the postmedial line bent inwards 



below vein 3 to below end of cell ereiiiochrea. 



P. Fore wing with the postmedial line strongly- 

 incurved and somewhat dentate below vein 4. 

 «■*. Hind wing with double medial line. 



a^. Wings with the ground-colour whitish veitisia. 



Ifi. Wings with the ground-colour rufous rosacea. 



b^. Hind wing without double medial line -polycyma. 



c^. Fore wing with the postmedial line very slightly 



incurved and not dentate below vein 4 jplKBOcyma. 



h^. Fore wing with the postmedial line arising from 

 Hie costa towards apex, oblique, excurved at 

 middle canescens. 



8123. Cortyta diapera, n. sp. (Plate CCXXXII. fig. 14.) 



S • Head and thorax white slightly mixed with brown ; palpi 

 white, the extremity of 2nd joint and the 3rd joint black ; f rons at 

 sides and antennae black ; tibiae suffused with brown, the tarsi brown 

 with whitish rings ; abdomen ochreous white, the base of ventral 

 surface whiter. Fore wing white slightly irrorated with brown ; a 

 curved subbasal brown striga from costa ; antemedial line shght, 

 brown, oblique to submedian fold where it is produced to a minute 

 black streak, then inwardly oblique ; a very indistinct double waved 

 brownish medial line ; reniform defined at sides by brown strise ; 

 postmedial line indistinctly double, the inner line blackish, obliqiie 

 to vein 6, incm'ved at discal fold, excurved at vein 4, then incurved, 

 and again slightly excurved above inner margin, met at vein 6 by 

 an oblique rather diffused black fascia from apex, its outer edge 

 then defined by a blackish shade, some slight blackish marks beyond 

 it on costa and slight blackish streaks on the veins ; an indistinct 

 oblique brownish subterminal line, slightly incurved at submedian 

 fold ; a slight waved blackish line just before termen. Hind wing 

 white tinged with ochreous brown, the termen ochreous brown 

 except towards tornus ; a terminal series of blackish points from 

 apex to vein 2 ; cilia white faintly chequered with brown to 

 vein 2 ; the underside white, the costal area slightly irrorated with 

 brown. 



Hah. Tea:n"svaal, Waterberg {Wilde, ZutrencJca), 2 c? type. 

 Uxp. 32 millim. 



8124. Cortyta metaxantha. (Plate CCXXXII. fig. 15.) 



Chalciope metaxantha, Hmpsn. Ann. S. Afr. Mus. ii. p. 334 (1902). 



S • Head and thorax ochreous tinged with reddish and mixed 

 with dark brown ; tarsi blackish ringed with whitish ; abdomen 

 ochreous tinged with fulvous, the ventral surface ochreous white. 

 Fore wing greyish ochreous tinged with brown, the basal area 

 thickly irrorated with blackish ; subbasal line black, sinuous, from 

 costa to submedian fold ; antemedial line strong, black, excurved 

 and waved, a faint diffused line before it ; traces of a double medial 

 line excurved from below costa to median nervm'e, then oblique, a 



