EUSTROTIA. 593 



5886. Eustrotia genuflexa. (Plate CLXVI. fig. 17.) 



Xanthoptera genuflexa, Hmpsn. Ann. S. Afr. Mus. ii. p. 398 (1902). 



(S . Head and thorax red-brown with a greyish tinge ; palpi at 

 base and pectus whitish; legs brown mixed with whitish, the 

 tarsi ringed with white ; abdomen grey suffused with yellow-brown, 

 the ventral surface white. Fore wing with the basal half purple- 

 brown, the terminal half olive -ochreous ; subbasal line represented 

 by two blackish striae from costa; antemedial line very indistinct, 

 rufous, waved, with blackish point at costa ; a blackish medial line 

 with chocolate-brown band before it, widest at middle, oblique from 

 costa to median nervure, then inwardly oblique, slightly defined by 

 whitish on outer side ; a few black scales on discocellulars ; post- 

 medial line very indistinct, double, with blackish mark at costa, 

 bent outwards below cosl-a, then oblique and touching the medial 

 line below the cell ; subtermihal line whitish defined on inner 

 side by dark brown, exeurved at middle ; terminal area with 

 purplish brown patches above middle and towards tornus ; a ter- 

 minal series of small black lunules ; cilia fuscous and grey. Hind 

 wing orange fulvous, the costal area suiiused with brown ; cilia 

 pale brownish ; the underside orange. 



5 . Fore wing with some fiery red suffusion before subterminal 

 line. 



Hab. DiMAEALAND ; Cape Colony, Annshaw {Miss F. Barrett), 

 1 d , 1 $ type. Exp. 24-26 millim. 



5887. Eustrotia catoxantha, n. sp. (Plate CLXVI. fig. 18.) 



(S . Head and thorax grey tinged with rufous ; abdomen yel- 

 lowish irrorated with rufous ; pectus, legs, and ventral surface of 

 abdomen white, the fore and mid tibige and the tarsi blackish 

 ringed with white. Fore wing grey irrorated with fuscous, the 

 medial area chocolate-brown, the terminal area tinged with rufous ; 

 subbasal line indistinct, brown, from costa to submedian fold ; 

 antemedial line indistinct, double, waved, somewhat oblique ; 

 medial line double, the inner line angled outwards on subcostal 

 and median nervures, then exeurved, the outer oblique from costa 

 to lower angle of cell, then incurved; reniform defined by an 

 oblique white striga on the outer medial line and a small wedge- 

 shaped brown mark beyond its upper extremity ; postmedial line 

 defined on inner side by a dark shade, deeper at costa, exeurved to 

 vein 4, then incurved, followed by a grey-white band, then a 

 rufous shade before the subterminal line, which is slight and greyish 

 defined on inner side by red-brown, exeurved at middle and bent 

 outwards to tornus ; a grey- white apical patch ; a punctiform 

 blackish terminal line. Hind wing yellow, uniform on upper and 

 under sides. 



Hah. Orange E. Colony, Bloemfontein (Eckersley), 2 (S type, 

 Exp. 22 millim. 



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