36 KocTirrD.E. 



series of black points ; cilia olive-green with a few black scales ; the 

 underside white sparsely irrorated with black and olive-green, a 

 black discoidal bar and terminal series of points. 



Hah. Natal, Durban {Leigh), 2 c? , 1 $ type. Exp. 20- 

 26 millim. 



Larva. Geoinetriform. Ooccidiphagous, pupating in cocoon covered 

 with their exuvise (6'. F. Leigh). 



Genus CATOBLEMMA, nov. 



Type, C. sumhavensis. 



Proboscis fully developed ; paljji obliquely porrect, extpiiding about twice 

 length of head, tlie 2nd joint fringed with hair above, the 3rd moderate ; frons 

 smooth ; eyes large, round ; anrennas of female somewhat laminate and 

 minutely ciliated; thorax clothed almost entirely with scales and without 

 crests; tibise moderately fringed with hair; abdomen without crests. Fore 

 wing with the apex rounded, the termeii not erenulate ; veins 3 and r> from 

 near angle of cell ; 6 from below upper angle ; 7 from angle ; 8, 9, 10 stalked ; 

 11 from cell. Hind wing with veins 3, 4 from angle of cell; 5 nearly fully 

 developed from below middle of discocellulars ; 6, 7 from upper angle ; 

 8 anastomosing with tlie cell near base only. 



Sect. I. Fore wing with the termen somewhat excised below, apex and 

 excurved at middle ; hind wing with the termen excised at discal 

 fold ; palpi with the 2nd joint triangularly fringed with long hair 

 above towards extremity. 



A. Wings tinged with pink rosealis. 



B. Wings not tinged with pink pkfalls. 



5026. Catoblemma rosealis. (Plate CXLIX. fig. 25.) 

 Mimorusa roscahs, Hmpsn. Moth? Ind. iv. p. 620 (1896). 



2 . Head and thorax white ; palpi suffused with dark brown at 

 sides, the fringe blackish at tips ; frons with ridge of black-brown 

 hair above ; legs tinged with ochreous brown, the fore tarsi ringed 

 with white ; abdomen white, dorsally tinged with ochreous, ventrally 

 irrorated with brown. Fore wing white tinged in parts with pale 

 pink ; a subbasal brown point on costa ; an antemedial brown point 

 on costa and traces of a slight ochreous line angled inwards at vein ] ; 

 a slight ochreous spot in middle of cell and another at middle 

 of costa with the slight medial line arising from it, excurved to 

 median nervure, then incurved and with ochreous band beyond it ; 

 a black point at \ipper angle of cell and spot at lower angle diffused 

 on outer side ; a truncate conical ochreous brown patch on post- 

 medial part of costa ; the slight blackish postmedial line arising from 

 its inner edge and bent inwards below vein 4 ; subterminal line 

 white, angled outwards at middle, the area beyond it suflused with 

 brown and irrorated with blackish ; a terminal series of black strise 

 defined on inner side by white ; cilia ochreous brown with fine 

 white line at base and some black scales at middle. Hind wing 



