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defined whitish subterniinal line ; small rufescent terminal spots at vein-ends, a 

 pair of fnscous dots or dashes at each vein ; fringe slightly mottled, with a fine 



pale line at its base and another beyond middle. Hindwing moderately broad, 



greyish fuscous, with a double paler, more rufescent postmedian band, which is 

 scarcely bent in middle ; lines very weak ; termen and fringe as on forewing. 



Both wings beneath more sharply marked, largely greyish-fuscous, but with a 

 postmedian band (faintly bisected), some incomplete lines in median area and a fine 

 subterminal (broader and more distinct at costa of forewing) remaining whitish- 

 ochreous ; postmedian line little angled on ft 3 . 



Cape Colony: Thaba'nchn, October 12, 1914, at light (G. Edelsten), type S 

 in coll. L. B. Prout ; Deelfonteiu, March 6 and 8, 1902 (Colonel Sloggett), 2 ? ? in 

 coll. Brit. Mus. 



The British Museum examples have stood in the series of Mimoclystia 

 undalosata Warr. {Nov. Zool. viii. 14), to which it bears a close resemblance, 

 differing, however, in the non-biangulate discocellulars of the hindwing, less reddish 

 colouring, less sharp markings and less irregular postmedian line of both wings. 



16. Chloroclystis lita spec. nov. 



cf ?, 18-21 mm. Face with projecting cone; light ochreous brown, marked 

 with dark fuscous. Palpus one-and-a-half times diameter of eye ; mostly fuscous. 

 Head and body light brown, more or less irrorated or mixed with fuscous. 



Forewing of c? without secondary sexual modification of costal margin, which 

 is merely slightly more shouldered near base than in the $, the underside with a 

 small tuft of hair from near base of SM 2 , extending across M and suggestive of an 

 exaggerated ? retinaculum ; whitish grey, with fuscous irroration, which in the 

 narrow areas bounding the median is almost confined to the bisecting lines ; a 

 slightly darkened basal patch ; a narrow, ill-defined, sub-basal ochreous brown or 

 somewhat ferruginous band ; a moderately broad, darkened median band, traversed 

 by about five wavy, interrupted dark lines, the first (the antemedian) very gently 

 excurved, the last (the postmedian) angled outward behind R 3 , incurved between 

 this and SM 2 , noticeably marked with thick dashes or elongate spots on the veins ; 

 distal area clouded with fuscous in anterior half, except for a proximal patch of 

 ochreous brown from SC 5 across R 1 , less clouded in posterior half, with a narrow 

 band of ochreous brown proximal to the almost obsolete subterminal line ; thick, 

 but noo sharp, dark dashes at termen between the veins ; terminal line fine, scarcely 

 interrupted ; fringe darkened proximally, except for pale markings at vein-ends. 



Hindwing with termen moderately rounded, slightly straighter between SC 2 



and R 3 ; a dark mark close to base ; median band only represented by the lines, 

 the outermost thick, except at costa, acutely angled behind R 3 ; distal area nearly 

 as on forewing but with less clouded apex. 



Underside more glossy, weakly marked, especially the forewing, which is 

 slightly darkened ; both wings with thick postmedian line indicated, traces also (at 

 least on hindwing) of other lines. 



Natal : Estcourt (J. M. Hutchinson), both sexes in coll. Brit. Mus., including 

 the type 3. Also from other localities in Natal, Transvaal, and Cape Colony. 

 Long misidentified by me as the West African marmorata Warr. {Nov. Zool. vi. 38), 

 founded on a ? , but which I find has a strong midcostal protuberance and tuft of 

 hair in the 3. 



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