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by a waved sti'iga from costa and oblique waved line with a dark 

 shade beyond it from lower angle of cell to inner margin ; post- 

 medial line double, rather diffused, red-brown, obliqnely excurved 

 and very slightly waved, the outer line slightly defined by white ; 

 terminal area with some dark suffusion, the subterminal line bein» 



Fig. 24. — Chkcmetia alternans, S. \, 



represented by white scaling broadly and irregularly diffused from 

 costa to vein 3; a terminal series of black-brown striae; cilia 

 chequered whitish and black. Hind wing grey suffused with brown ; 

 a slight whitish striga below extremity of vein 3 ; cilia with white 

 line at base and white tips ; the underside white irrorated with 

 brown, a black diseoidal point, indistinct oblique minutely waved 

 medial and postmedial lines, double subterminal line, and a terminal 

 series of black points. 



5 . Palpi whiter, blackish at base, tegulse more rufous ; fore wing 

 with an olive-green tinge except on basal and terminal areas. 



Hah. SiEHur, 1800' {Dwlrjeon, MoUer), 1 J, 4 $. Exp. 28-30 

 millim. 



6276. Chliimetia cana, u. sp. (Plate CLXXX. fig. 5.) 



5 . Head white, the palpi with some grey, the antennae grey- 

 brown ; thorax grey mixed with some brown ; abdomen gre)'-whife 

 with slight dark irroration, the ventral surface white towards base. 

 Fore wing pale grey with slight dark irroration, the antemedial area 

 with a pale rufous tinge except at inner margin ; a faint dark 

 medial line, excurved to median nervure, then oblique ; reniform 

 very indistinct, whitish, elliptical, with dark points on its inner and 

 outer sides above ; postmedial line indistinct, double, curved, some 

 white points beyond it on costa with blackish streaks between them ; 

 subterminal line very indistinct, curved, tinged with rufous towards 

 costa ; a terminal series of black points. Hind wing white 

 irrorated with brown ; the terminal area tinged with brown ; cilia 

 chequered with blackish to vein 2 and with blackish mark at vein 1 ; 

 the underside grey-white sparsely irrorated with black, a black dis- 

 eoidal spot, traces of a sinuous postmedial line, some black points 

 on termen towards apex and a striga towards tornus. 



Hab. Germ. E. Afkica, Ruaka Valley, Iringa (Neave), 1 $ type. 

 Exp. 26 millim. 



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