710 NOCTtriDiE, 



suffused with brown, with dark discoidal bar and indistinct curved 

 postmedial line. 



Hab. Transvaal, Pretoria (Swierstra), 1 2 ; Natal, Stanger 

 (Delvin), 1 c? , Estcourt (Hutchinson), 1 $, Durban (GoocJi), 1 c? 

 type formosa ; Cape Colony, Pondoland, Nogeleni {Sivinny), 1 6 • 

 Exp. S 24, 5 26 millim. 



6074. Cardiosace sphendonistis. 



Tarache S2')hendonistis, Hmpsn. Ann. S. Afr. Miie. ii. p. 384 (1902). 



S • Head blackish tinged with grey ; palpi white except at tips 

 above; thorax white with some grey scales on patagia and meta- 

 thorax ; fore tibise and the tarsi banded with grey-black ; abdomen 

 white with narrow blackish dorsal bands, the anal tuft oehreous. 

 Fore wing white ; subbasal line grey, double, waved, from costa to 

 submedian fold ; antemedial line grey, double, waved, the lines 

 expanding into patches at costa; orbicular and reni form with slight 

 black annuli open below, the latter hoop-shaped; an oblique olive- 

 grey mark from middle of costa ; terminal area purple-grey shading 

 to olive on inner side and towards apex; postmedial line repre- 

 sented by an oblique olive-grey mark from costa on the white area 

 and an interrupted minutely waved black line on the purple area 

 strongly incurved below vein 4; subterminal line represented by a 

 slight white lunule with black spot before it below vein 7, and from 



Fig. 201. — Cardiosace sp}iendo7iistis, (^ . \. 



vein 5 to inner margin by slight white lunules with small dentate 

 red marks before them, the area beyond it irrorated with white ; 

 a terminal series of small black lunules ; cilia with a patch of white 

 at tips below middle. Hind wing white with broad fuscous 

 terminal band, its inner edge somewhat incurved at vein 2; cilia 

 white ; the underside with fuscous brown discoidal spot and patch 

 on middle of costa. 



5 . Fore wing with the basal area rather greyer ; hind wing 

 almost wholly suffused with fuscous brown, the underside with 

 dark ante- and postmedial bands. 



Hab. Transvaal [Pead), 1 5 ; Orange R. Colony, Bloemfontein 

 (Eokersley, Wilson), 1 c? , 3 2 ; I^at.al, Estcourt (Hutchinson), 1 $ 

 type, Charlestown, 1 2; Bastttoland, Maseru (Grmvshay), 1 $, 

 Masite (Crcmshay), 1 cS . Exp. 34-38 millim. 



