^[Qy tJig NOCTIJID.E. 



define don inner side bj- a red-brown band and on outer side by 

 rufons, slightly excurved below vein 7, exciirved and minutely 

 waved at middle and bent outwards to tornus ; a lunulate ter- 

 minal black line defined on inner side by whitish; cilia wdtb a 

 brown line near tips Avith some whitish before it. Hind wing 

 Avhitish tinged with brown, the terminal area suffused with reddish 

 brown from apex to vein 2 ; the underside white irrorated with 

 brown, a blackish diseoidal spot. 



Hah. Cape Colony, Deelfontein (Sloggett), 2 2 type. Exj). 

 16-18 millim. 



Genus EULOCASTRA. 



ivpe. 



Eiilocasfra, Bud. Trans. Ent. Soc. 1886, p. 419 fasciata. 



Thalerastria, Staud. Iris, x. p. 294 (1S97) dlaphora. 



Proboscis fully developed ; palpi upturned, the 2Dd joint reaching to vertex 

 of head and smoothly scaled, the 3rd rather long ; frons smooth ; eyes large, 

 round; antennie of male somewhat laminate and almost simple; thorax 

 clothed almost entirely with scales and without crests ; tibiae' slightly fringed 

 •with hair ; abdomen without crests. Fore wing with the apex rounded, the 

 termen evenly curved and not crenulate ; veins 3 and 5 from near angle of 

 cell ; 6 from upper angle ; 9 from 10 anastomosing with 8 to form the areole ; 

 11 from cell. Hind wing with veins 3, 4 typically from angle of cell ; 5 almost 

 fully developed from well below middle of discocellulars ; 6, 7 from upper 

 angle ; 8 anastomosing with the cell near base only. 



Sect. I. {Thalerastria). Hind wing with veins 3, 4 stalked. 



A. Fore wins ochreous white, the base, a triangular medial 



mark on costa, and the termen blackish diaphora. 



B. Fore wing fuscous with pale antemedial band. 



a. Fore wing with the band ochreous white ochrisona. 



b. Fore wing witli the band pure white. 



a^. Fore wing with white postmedial spot on costa md<sna. 



h^. Fore wing without white postmedial spot on costa leucobasis. 



o9o5. Eulocastra diaphora. 



Erastria diapliora, Staud. Hor. Ent. Soc. Eoss. xiv. p. 415 (1878) ; id. 



Eom. Mem. ii. p. 74, pi. 3. f. 11 ; id. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 230. 

 Thalpochares triangularis, Warr. P. Z. S. 1883, p. 309, Hmpsn. Moths 



Ind. ii. p. 317. 

 Metachrestis atrihasalis, Hmpsn. P. Z. S. 1806, p. 2ril, pi. x. f. 11. 

 Thalerastria laticincta, Staud. Iris, x. p. 291 (1897). 



Head and thorax black -brown mixed with some grey ; pal])i 

 •whitish mixed with fuscous ; pectus and legs white, the fore tibire 

 and 'the tarsi banded with black; abdomen ochreous white with 

 faint dorsal grey bands. Pore wing yellowish white tinged with 

 rufous ; the basal area black-brown slightly glossed with grey ; 

 an oblique triangular black-brown patch from middle of costa to 

 lower angle of cell ; traces of a pale postmedial line ; a narrow 

 terminal black-brown baud expanding somewhat at apex, discal 



