CORTTTA. 321 



Hah. Uganda, Ruwenzori (JVoIlaston), 1 $ type; N.E. 

 Rhodesia, Up. Luangwa R. (JSTeave), 1 $ . IJa^j). 34-38 millim. 



;8134. Cortyta phssocyma, n. sp. (Plate CCXXXII. fig. 25.) 



5 . Head, tliorax, and abdomen grey suffused with fuscous 

 brown ; palpi at base, pectus, and ventral surface of abdomen 

 whitish ; tarsi black with pale rings. Fore wing grey suffused 

 with fuscous brown ; subbasal line black, sinuous, fi'oni costa to 

 submedian fold ; antemedial line black, excurved and slightl_y 

 waved, a small triangular dark mark beyond it representing the 

 claviform ; an indistinct double sinuous medial line ; reniform with 

 whitish centre defined' by black, elliptical, a sinuous blackish line 

 from it to inner margin ; postmedial line black, bent outwards 

 below costa, slightly incurved at discal fold, incurved below vein 4, 

 with faint lines before and beyond it ; an oblique white mark from 

 postmedial part of costa ; subterminal line pale grey, excurved 

 below vein 7 and at middle, with slight black streaks beyond it 

 below vein 7 and at submedian fold ; a crenulate black line just 

 before termen. Hind wing whitish tinged with reddish brown, 

 the termen suffused with fuscous brown except towards tornus, a 

 dark patch on vein 1 towards tornus, a waved blackish terminal 

 line ; cilia with a fine pale line at base ; the underside with the 

 costal area and terminal area to vein 2 tinged and irrorated with 

 brown. 



Hab. Transvaal, Warmbad (Cooke), 1 5 type. J^xp. 

 36 millim. 



8135. Cortyta canescens. (Plate CCXXXII. fig. 26 cJ , 27 $ .) 

 Cortyta careescems, -Wlk. xiii. 1077 (1857). 



<S . Head, thorax, and abdomen pale grey mixed with blackish ; 

 palpi black at sides ; frons blackish ; tegulse with three faint 

 blackish lines ; legs irrorated with blackish, the tarsi blackish 

 ringed with white ; abdomen with slight blackish segmental lines, 

 the ventral surface brownish white irrorated with black. Fore 

 wing pale grey slightly tinged with brown and irrorated with 

 blackish ; traces of a double sinuous dark subbasal line from costa 

 to vein 1 ; antemedial line indistinct, double, inwardly oblique 

 below the cell; the medial area with four slight double oblique 

 sinuous brown lines ; reniform very faintly defined by brown, 

 irregular ; postmedial line blackish, arising from costa towards 

 apex, very oblique, slightly sinuous, and excurved at middle ; an 

 indistinct dark line beyond it arising from apex ; an indistinct 

 double sinuous brown subterminal line ; a slight waved black line 

 before termen, and fine pale line at base of cilia. Hind wing grey- 

 white tinged and irrorated with brown ; a faint oblique blackish 

 antemedial line and three faint oblique slightly sinuous double lines 

 beyond the cell ; an oblique slightly sinuous blackish postmedial 

 line with faint diffused line beyond it ; an indistinct double sinuous 

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