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whitish-hyaline ; the veins are pale yellowish, but they are dark brown on the dark 

 parts of the pattern. The pattern is blackish, and very like that of peregrina as 

 described by Adams ; the stigma is colourless, with only the upper exterior angle 

 darkened ; a more or less indicated and interrupted oblique fuscous streak departing 

 from the stigma goes to the small cross-vein, which is bordered with fuscous and 

 is isolated from the rest. The blackish apical patch is nearly round, and has no 

 hyaline spots in it, but has 7 great hyaline spots or indentations along its border, 

 thus forming the projecting rays ; these are : one at fore border, directed obliquely ; 

 one below the end of the 2nd vein ; 2 on the ends of the 3rd and 4th veins forming 

 the usual fork ; and 3 in the 2nd posterior cell, the last of which is placed just on 

 the hind cross-vein. There is besides the remnant of a less infuscated band below 

 the 5th vein on the middle of the discoidal cell, not reaching the hind border. 

 Characteristic for the species are : 2 hyaline contiguous rounded spots at the end 

 of the first posterior cell, just before the large apical hyaline spot, thus giving a 

 peculiar shape to the base of the apical fork or Y-shaped spot ; the hyaline spot 

 at base of the first posterior cell in front of the small cross-vein is of greater size, 

 extending from the 3rd to the 4th vein ; it is chiefly the breadth of these 4 hyaline 

 spots which gives to the wing an appearence of reticulation, together with the 

 rounded shape of some of the hyaline spots which form the radiating fuscous streaks. 

 Type <$, type $, and some additional specimens of both sexes from Durban, 

 Umbilo, Eebruary-April 1914 (L. Bevis). 



8. Trypanea aucta, Bezzi, Mem. Ind. Mus., iii, 1913, p. 166, pi. x, fig. 69; var. 

 repleta, var. nov. 



Perfectly corresponding with the Indian female described by me in the important 

 characters of the obtuse anal cell and of the complete middle band of the wings, 

 but differing in the following peculiarities, on which I have to erect here a new 

 variety under the name of repleta. 



cj. Length of the body, 3 '5 mm. ; of the wing, 3 "5 mm. The hyaline spot at the 

 apex of wing just below the end of the second longitudinal vein is reduced to a 



Fig. 3. Trypanea aucta, Bezzi, var. 

 repleta, nov. 



very small dot. The apical hyaline space is broader, being much extended below 

 the 4th vein, and occupying the whole terminal angle of the second posterior cell. 

 The hyaline indentation between the 2 terminal rays of the hind border is entirely 

 wanting, and thus there are only 3 (not 4) dark rays reaching the hind border in 

 the 2nd posterior cell. The apical hyaline spot of the discoidal cell is reduced to 

 a very small streak. The small cross- vein is margined with fuscous as in the typical 

 aucta, as mentioned in the original description, but omitted in the figure. 



