HYPOPLEXIA. nEIiJ5MA. 



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black streak beyond it in fliscal fold to just before termen and some 

 whitish points on costa ; subterminal line whitish, minutely 

 dentate, angled inwards in submediau fold, with slight dark streaks 

 beyond it in the interspaces to the terminal series of small black 

 lunules ; cilia with fine brown line near base and the tips inter- 

 sected with black. Hind wing pure white with terminal series of 

 black stria3 except towards torn us ; cilia slightly tinged with rufous 

 and with a few black scales at tips at submediun fold; the 

 underside with the costal area irrorated with brown, a blackish 

 discoidal spot and diffused curved postmedial line from costa to 

 vein 2. 



Hah. Cape Colony {Sir A. Smith), 1 d" type, Anushaw (Hiss F. 

 Barrett), 2 c5" . Ex]:>. 32 millim. 



Genus HER^MA. 



Type. 



Hercema, Stand. Eom. Mem. ti. p. 501 (1892) mandschurica. 



Proboscis fully developed ; palpi obliquely porrect, fringed with 

 below; frons sinooth ; eyes large, rounded; antennse of male ciliated; head 

 and thorax clothed witli hair and hair-like scales, the pro- and metatborax 

 with spreading crests ; tibife fringed with hair ; abdomen with dorsal crest at 

 base only. Fore wing rather broad, the (ermen not ci-enulate, rather oblique 

 towards tornus ; veins 3 and 5 from near angle of cell ; 6 from upper angle ; 

 9 from 10 anastomosing with 8 to form the areola ; 11 from cell. Hind wing 

 with veins 3, 4 from angle of cell; 5 obsolescent from just below middle of 

 discocellulars ; 6, 7 shortly stalked ; 8 anastomosing with the cell near 

 base only. 



*3267. Hersma mandschurica. 



Pachiohia mandschurica, Grajs. Berl. ent. Ztit. 1889, p. 2.o6; Stand. Cat. 

 Lep. pal. p. 202. 



Head and thorax deep red-brown ; abdomen pale rufous. Fore 

 Aving pale red-brown with a greyish tinge ; the medial area, 

 postmedial costal area and terminal area deep red-brown ; subbasal 



Fig. 75. — HercEma mandschurica, (^ . \. 



line indistinct, dark, sinuous, from costa to vein 1 ; antemedial line 

 dark, sinuous, oblique, slightly angled outwards below costa and 

 inwards on vein 1, a diffused oblique wedge-shaped greyish band 

 from beyond it on costa to postmedial line at submedian fold ; 

 claviform, orbicular, and reniform obsolete ; postmedial line rather 

 indistinct, dark, bent outwards below costa, then minutely dentate, 

 escurved to vein 4, then very oblique, three white points beyond it 



