CAEDIOSACE. 709 



slightly indented, the postraedialline arising from it, black, minutely 

 waved, strongly incurved below vein 4 and with some silvery blue 

 on it at submedian fold; a white point on costa before the sub- 

 terminal line, which is white, interrupted, angled inwards below 

 costa, excurved below vein 7, dentate at veins 4, 3, then incurved 

 and bent outwards to tornus ; a terminal series of black striae ; 

 cilia purple-grey tinged with rufous at base. Hind wing orange- 

 yellow with terminal brown band from apex to vein 4 ; cilia 

 yellowish white ; the underside with brownish medial and post- 

 medial bars from costa. 



2 . Thorax with more brown ; fore wing with the basal area 

 largely suffused with brown, the dark terminal area extending to 

 near antemedial line and with oblique sinuous inner edge ; hind 

 wing with the dark band extending to tornus leaving some orange 

 on tormeu. 



Hab. Mashonaland, Salisbury (Marshall), 1 c? ; IIhodbsia, 

 Bulawayo {Eyles), 1$; Transvaal {Marshall), 1 J , Johannesburg 

 {CooTce), 1 5, Groenvlei (Janse), 1 $; JSTatal, Newcastle, 1 5» 

 Estcourt {Hutchinson), 1 c? , 1 $ ; Orange R. Colony, Bloemfonlein 

 {Eckersley), 2 S, 6 $; Basutoland, Maseru {Crawshay), 1 5; 

 Cape Colony, 1 5 ? Deelfontein {Slogr/ett), 1 c? > 1 $ j Annshaw 

 (Miss F. Barrett), 2 SA $ • Ex^^- 32-33 millim. 



6073. Cardiosace natalis. (Plate CLXX. figs. 23 J , 24 $ .) 



Acontia natalis, Cnien. Noot. ii. p. 217 (1852). 



Acontia aduUerina, Wllgrn. Anteckn. i. Zool. 1, p. 60(1866); id. Kongl. 



Svensk. Vet.-Akad. Handl. v. (3) p. 69 (1864). 

 Acontia formosa, Butl. A. M. N. H. (4) xvi. p. 404 (1875). 



(S . Head, tegulae, and base of patagia white ; palpi, frons, 

 antennas, and tips of patagia and vertex of thorax olive-green ; 

 legs tinged with brown ; abdomen fulvous yellow, the ventral 

 surface white. Pore wing white, the costa brown towards base ; 

 an antemedial olive-green and golden brown band, diffused on inner 

 side ; orbicular and reniform grey with white annuli, the former 

 round, the latter elliptical, an olive patch between them in cell 

 connected by a streak below the cell with the antemedial band ; 

 terminal area olive-green and rufous, its inner edge angled inwards 

 at vein 6, indented by white streaks on bases of veins 4, 3, then 

 incurved ; an indistinct deep rufous subterminal line, strongly 

 incurved below vein 4 and with patches of silvery grey beyond it 

 below vein 6 and from vein 4 to inner margin ; a terminal white 

 line except towards tornus ; cilia white with some rufous at tornus. 

 Hind wing yellowish white, the costa and termen tinged with brown ; 

 the underside pale yellowish. 



5 . Head, thorax, and abdomen wholly suffused with olive- 

 brown ; fore wing darker especially the terminal area; hind wing 

 dark brown, the cilia with white mixed; the underside whitish 



