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out to a strong angle just below cell, the 2nd angled outwards 

 to or to close to lower angle of cell, the 3rd strongly excurved from 

 below eosta to vein 3, then incurved, sometimes quite obsolete ; 

 three to live black points on each side of discocellulars ; cilia orange. 

 Hind wing orange-yellow ; a large black discoidal spot and some- 

 times some discoidal spots or points. Underside of fore wing suffused 

 with orange or rarely crimson to the postmedial line ; a large black 

 discoidal lunule ; hind wing with the costal area whitish, usually 

 with ante- and postmedial black spots. 



Hab. Transvaal, Potchefstroom, 1 c?,l$ (Ross); 'N atal (Guein- 

 zlus), 3 6,1 $ , Malvern {Marshall), 1 § , Karkloof {Marshall), 

 3 c? ; C. Colony, Transkei {Miss F. Barrett), 1 c? , 1 $ , Uitenhage 

 {S. D. Banistoiv), 1 cS , (Drege) 1 $ , type delineata, {Dr. Smith) 1 $ . 

 Exp., J bQ, $ 70 millim. 



Genus TURUPTIANA. 



Type. 



Turuptiana, Wlk. Char. Lep. Hef.. p. 19 (1869) ohliqua. 



Sallcea, Feld. Reis. Nov. p. 8 (1874) "" 



Proboscis small ; palpi porrect, clothed with long hair and reaching as far 

 as the frontal tuft ; tibige with the spurs short, mid tibiae with the medial spurs 

 absent. Fore wing with vein 3 from near angle of cell; 4, 5 from angle; 6 

 from upper angle; 7, 8, 9 stalked ; 10, 11 from cell. Hind wing with vein 3 

 from close to angle of cell ; 4, 5 from angle ; 6, 7 from upper angle ; 8 from 

 middle of cell. 



Sect. I. Antennae of male bipectinate with moderate branches. 



h.. Fore wing with oblique brown fascia from or from below 

 middle of costa to tornus. 



a. Fore wing without brown costal fascia lacipea. 



b. Fore wing with brown costal fascia ohliqua. 



B. Fore wing without oblique brown fascia neurophylla. 



1992. Turuptiana lacipea. 



8all(sa lacipea, Druce, A. M. N. H. (6) v. p. 215 (1890) ; id. Biol. Centr.- 

 Am., Het. ii. p. 391, pi. 77. ff. 6, 7 ; Kirby, Cat. Het. p. 909. 



c^" . Head white ; palpi, antennae, tegulse, and thorax dark brown ; 

 patagia white, edged with brown above ; pectus orange ; tibiae and 

 tarsi grey-brown ; abdomen orange, with large dorsal black-brown 

 patch ; wings white. Pore wing with the costal edge often brown 

 towards base ; an oblique brown fascia from below subcostal nervure 

 just beyond middle of cell to tornus, where it joins a fascia on inner 

 margin near base ; cilia usually brown above middle. Hind wing 

 with more or less developed brown patch on terminal half of inner 

 area extending up to vein 3. 



2 . Abdomen with dorsal brown bands on terminal segments ; 

 fore wing wholly white ; hind wing with slight traces of brown at 

 tornus. 



Hab. Guatemala {Rodriguez), 4 d* , 1 $ type, Godman-Salvin. 

 Coll. Exp., (S 48, $ 56 millim. 



