NOCTtriD^. 



b^ . Fore wing without blact spot on outer edge of post- 

 medial line in submedian interspace. 

 a^. Fore wing with the reniform narrow bar-shaped . cebece. 

 b"^. Fore wing with the reniform constricted at 



middle apicifascia. 



6284. Phlegetonia catephioides. 



Phlegetonia catephioides, Guen. Noct. ii. p. 301 (1852). 



Head, thorax, and abdomeu fuscous or reddish brown more or less 

 tinged with grey ; tegulse with black line near base. Fore wing 

 fuscous or reddish brown tinged with grey, the inner half greyer 

 except at base and tornus ; subbasal line double, blackish, minutely 

 waved ; antemedial line treble, excurved from below costa to vein 1 ; 

 a whitish streak in terminal part of cell traversing the reniform, 

 which is slightly defined by grey and with brown spots on its upper 

 and lower parts ; a faint oblique sinuous medial line from beyond 

 lower angle of cell to inner margin ; postmedial line treble, oblique 



Fig. 29. — Pldegetonia catephioides, J. i, 



and slightly sinuous from costa to vein 6, incurved at discal fold and 

 below vein 4, an indistinct blackish line beyond it, angled at vein 4, 

 then incurved ; a blue-grey apical patch and a crenulate black line 

 just before termen. Hind wing pure white, the terminal area brown 

 tino-ed with grey at termen and on cilia; a slight crenulate black 

 line just before termen ; the underside irrorated with brown except 

 on inner area, two brown discoidal strise and traces of a medial lino 

 and doulde postmedial line. 



Hab. Transvaal, White E. (Coohe), 1 $ ; Natal, Durban 

 {BowJcer, Bell-Marley), 3 S ,^ $ • l^^^p. 38-40 millim. 



6285. Phlegetonia porphyriota, n. sp. (Plate CLXXV. fig, 28.) 



S . Head, thorax, and abdomen grey mixed with some reddish 

 brown ; palpi fuscous at base. Fore wing purplish grey tinged in 

 parts with fuscous and irrorated with blackish ; antemedial line 

 whitish, erect, sinuous, with a blackish shade before it above and 

 below vein 1 ; a faint pinkish spot in middle of cell and pinkish 

 discoidal bar with black points on it at upper and lower angles of 



