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267. Micragrotis rufescens, n. sp. (Plate LX. jfig. 2.) 



Head and thorax rufous mixed with greyish ; tegul^e with slight 

 dark medial line ; abdomen pale rufous. Fore wing pale rufous 

 with slight dark irroration ; the subbasal line represented by double 

 strite from costa and cell ; a slight black streak below base of cell ; 

 the antemedial line indistinct, double, waved, angled inwards on 

 vein 1 and outwards above inner margin : orbicular and reniform 

 defined by black and with slight fuscous centres, the former round 

 or oblique, elliptical, the latter constricted at middle, the cell 

 between them black ; the postmedial line double, dentate, bent 

 outwards below costa, excurved to vein 4, then incurved ; some 

 pale points on costa towards apex ; the subterminal line indistinct, 

 pale, defined by fuscous suffusion before it at costa, developing into 

 a pale apical patch, angled outwards below costa and excurved 

 at middle. Hind wing yellowish white, the costal area tinged with 

 fuscous and the terminal area in female ; the underside with the 

 costal area irrorated with fuscous, a slight discoidal spot and 

 postmedial series of points on the veins. 



Hah. Cape Colony, Annshaw {Miss F. Barrett), 1 (S type, 

 Bushman L. (Alston), 1 $ . Eaj). 36 millim. 



Sect. II. Fore tibiaj with one claw on outer side and two on inner. 



268. Micragrotis acydonta, n. sp. 



c? . Head and thorax oehreous mixed with black : tarsi with 

 pale rings ; abdomen oehreous tinged with fuscous, and with sub- 

 lateral blackish stripes. Fore wing oehreous, the costal area 

 extending to median nervure and vein 2 suffused with fuscous 

 brown to the postmedial line ; the subbasal line represented by 

 double striae from costa filled in with oehreous ; »a double waved 



Fig. 57. — Micragrotis acydonta, c? , 



antemedial line strongly angled inwards on vein 1 and outwards 

 above inner margin, the claviform being represented by a small 

 black spot on its outer edge ; orbicular and reniform defined by 

 black, the former small, round, white, the latter blackish irrorated 

 with white, the end of cell and area round it suff'used and irrorated 

 with black ; the postmedial line dentate and produced to long black 

 and white points on the veins, bent outwards below costa, slightly 



