COETTTA. 315 



brown shade beyond it, constricted at middle ; postmedial line 

 strong, black, sinuous, strongly incurved below vein 4, a rather 

 diffused brown line beyond it followed by a pale grey band ; traces 

 of a waved dark subterminal line ; a highly waved dark terminal 

 line ; cilia with a fine pale line at base. Hing wing fulvous yellow, 

 the inner area irrorated with a few black scales, the termen tinged 

 with brown from apex to vein 2 ; postmedial line black, from vein 3 

 to inner margin ; a waved black terminal line. Underside of both 

 wings fulvous yellow, the apical areas with patches of brown 

 suffusion. 



Hah. Damaraland ; Cape Colony, 1 S type. Ex2). 

 38 millim. 



8125. Cortyta leucoptera. (Plate CCXXXII. fig. 16.) 

 Hypatra leucoptcra, Hmpsn. P. Z. S. 1896, p. 264, pi. x. f. 1. 



c? . Head and thorax ochreous white with a slight reddish tinge ; 

 antennae ringed with blackish ; palpi white, blackish at tips ; pectus 

 white ; tarsi blackish ringed with white ; abdomen ochreous white. 

 Fore wing ochreous white, the terminal area grey-white ; a slight 

 black subbasal line excm-ved below costa, then oblique to vein 1 

 where it terminates ; some grey suffusion before the strong black 

 antemedial line, which is obhque to submedian fold, then erect and 

 slightly sinuous ; medial area faintly tinged with red-brown ; an 

 indistinct double waved brownish medial line ; reniform defined by 

 blackish, small and elliptical ; some grey suffusion on costal area 

 before the black postmedial line, which is slightly excurved below 

 costa and at middle and incurved at discal fold, strongly incurved 

 and slightly sinuous below vein 4, a grey-brown shade and faint 

 dark line beyond it; some pale points on costa towards apex;^ 

 traces of a pale waved subterminal line, the area beyond it greyer 

 with a blackish patch at apex ; a slight crenulate blackish line just 

 before termen which is ochreous. Hind wing ochreous white, the 

 terminal half with dark striae on veins 2 and 1 ; a fine waved 

 blackish line just before termen with some brown suffusion before 

 it except towards tornus ; cilia with a dark line through them. 

 Underside of both wings creamy white; fore wing with fuscous 

 terminal patch from apex to vein 3. 



Hah. W. Algeria; Somaliland, Beichen {Gillett), 1 d ; 

 Aden (JVtirse, Meade- Waldo), 2 d type. ^^p. 30 millim. 



8126. Cortyta dispar. (Plate CCXXXII. fig. 17 c? , 18 $ .) 



Pericyma dispar, Pilng. Iris, xvi. p. 290, pi. vi. E.7,7 a (1903). 



S . Head and thorax ochreous white, the latter tinged with 

 brown on vertex ; antennae ringed with black ; palpi white, the 

 3rd joint blackish ; tarsi black, ringed with white ; abdomen 

 ochreous white dorsally slightly tinged with brown. Fore wing 

 creamy ochreous, the terminal area grey suffiased with fuscous 

 brown ; subbasal line represented by a curved black striga from 



