386 



NOCTUID^. 



2566. Hypotype scotomista. 



Folia scotomista, Hmpsu. Aun. S. Air. Mus. ii. p. 278 (1902). 



S . Head and thorax clothed with white and black-hrown scales ; 

 tarsi blackish with pale rings ; abdomen ochreous white dorsally 

 snflfused with fnscous. Fore wing rather narrow, white, thickly 

 irrorated with black-brown ; subbasal line represented by a white 

 point on costa ; antemedial line very indistinct, curved, with 

 white point at costa ; claviform represented by a slight white 

 mark ; orbicular a small white ocellus ; reniform large, indistinctly 

 defined, with whitish annulus ; traces of a dark medial shade ; 

 postmedial line with white point at costa, bent outwards below 

 costa, then minutely dentate, indistinct, excurved to vein 4, then 



Fig. 128. — Hyfotyfe scotomista, ^ . \. 



incurved ; subterminal line very indistinct, whitish defined by 

 fuscous on inner side, somewhat dentate at veins 7, 6 and excurved 

 at middle ; a terminal series of small black lunules ; cilia chequered 

 fuscous and white. Hind wing ochreous whitish tinged with brown 

 especially on terminal area ; cilia white ; the underside white with 

 slight dark streak in cell and discoidal spot, a sinuous postmedial 

 line and some brown irroration on terminal area. 



5 . Pore wing broader ; hind wing neai4y uniformly suffused 

 with fuscous and without markings on underside. 



Hah. JSTatal, Coast belt ; Cape Colony, Kokstad {Mrs. Pringle), 

 1 $ , Cape Town, 1 S type. My. 42-48 millim. 



Genus BRYOMIMA. 

 Bryomima, Stand. Iris, xii. p. 357 (1899) 



Type. 

 carducha. 



Proboscis fully developed ; palpi obliquely upturned, the 2nd joint fringed 

 with hair, the 3rd short ; frons smooth ; eyes large, rounded ; antennte of male 

 ciliated or almost simple; head and thorax clothed with hair and a few scales 

 mixed, without distinct crests; tibiae fringed with long hair on outer side; 

 abdomen with dorsal crest at base only. Fore wing with the termen obliquely 

 curved ; reins 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 from angle of cell ; b obsolescent from middle of discocellulars ; 6, 7 from 

 upper angle; 8 anastomosing with the cell near base only. 



