390 AECTIAD^. 



830. Siccia caffra. 



S'ccia caffra, Wlk. ii. 639 (1854) ; Kirby, Oat. Het. p. 368. 



Lithosia nigropunctata, Wllgrn. Wieu. Ent. Moc. iv. p. 46 (1860) ; Kirby, 



Cat. Het. p. 368. 

 Melania punctigera, Feld. Eeis. Nov. pi. 106. S. 34, 35 (1874). 



Pale grey-brown ; palpi, frons, and fore legs above blackish. 

 Tore wing irrorated with a few black scales ; subbasal and ante- 

 medial black spots on costa and below cell; medial spots on costa, 

 in cell, and ou inner margin ; a cliscoidal spot ; an indistinct post- 

 medial line strongly bent 

 outwards below costa and 

 angled on veins 6 and 4, 

 then incurved to below end 

 of cell and excurved again ; 

 a diffused triangular wedge- 

 shaped patch from costa to 

 vein 5 ; terminal spots be- 

 Y]g. 303 — Siccia caffra, (S . |. low apex, at middle, and 



above tornus with slight 

 points between them. Hind wing whitish, slightly tinged with 

 brown towards costa and termen and with indistinct discoidal point ; 

 more uniformly tinged with brown in female. 



Ilab. Natal, Estcourt {Hutchinson), 1 c? , 3 $ ; Cape Colony, 

 Knysna {Trimen), 3^,2$, type. Exp. 20-24 millim. 



031. Siccia punctipennis. 



Lithosia punciipennis, Wllgrn. Wien. Ent. Mon. iv. p. 46 (1860) ; Kirby, 



Cat. Het. p. 368. 

 Autoccras nigropunciana, Saalm. Lep. Madag. i. p. 169, pi. 7. f. 103 



(1884) ; Kirby, Cat. Het. p. 368. 



c? . Pale grey-brow n suffused -with fuscous. Fore wing with 

 subbasal spot on costa : the antemedial line arising from a spot on 

 costa, strongly angled outwards to a spot below the cell, then re- 

 tracted ; a spot at middle of cell; the medial line arising from a 

 sj)ot on costa, angled outwards in cell, then oblique and minutely 

 dentate ; a discoidal spot ; the postmedial line minutely dentate, 

 bent outwards below costa and angled at veins 6 and 4, then 

 retracted ; a subterminal spot on costa with an obscure spot below 

 it and two above inner margin ; a terminal series of points. Hind 

 wing fuscous. 



Ab. 1. Yellower brown ; fore wing with the antemedial and 

 medial lines and subterminal spots obsolescent. — Teita. 



Uab. Madagascar, type f $ mgropunctana in Mus. Frankfort ; 

 Br. E. Africa, Teita {F. J. JaeJcson), 1 $ ; Cape Colony, type f c? 

 in Mus. Stockholm. Exp. 18 millim. 



