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Legs blackish, rather short and stout ; femora and tibiae 

 fringed ; spurs stout. Fore wings with an irregular costal 

 mouse-coloured stripe, and with some postmedial longitudinal 

 lines of the same hue ; a whitish patch in the disk ; exterior 

 border rounded, moderately oblique ; under side brownish, 

 with a pale fawn-coloured border. Hind wings cinereous, 

 slightly hyaline, with a blackish discoidal dot, with a broad 

 diffuse mouse-coloured border, and with black marginal 

 points. Length of the body 6j lines ; expansion of the fore 

 wings 16 lines. Harkeko. 



Fam. Xylophagid^. — Gen. Laphygma, Guen. 



7. Laphygma cycloides, Guen. Noct. i. 157. Harkeko. 

 Inhabits S. Africa. 



8. Laphygma retrahens. Male, — Cinereous, white be- 

 neath. Proboscis tawny. Palpi rather slender, obliquely 

 ascending, rising very little higher than the head, with a 

 short thick fringe beneath ; second joint with a brown band 

 on the outer side ; third conical, less than one-fourth of the 

 length of the second. Antennae brown, very minutely setu- 

 lose. Abdomen extending a little beyond the hind wings ; 

 apical tuft thick, short. Fore wings with some brown 

 speckles, and with two indistinct zigzag transverse brown 

 lines ; first line interrupted by the orbicular mark ; second 

 beyond the reniform, mostly double ; orbicular and reniform 

 marks and a zigzag submarginal line pale testaceous ; 

 orbicular rather large, nearly round ; reniform of the usual 

 shape. Hind wings white, semihyaline, cinereous along the 

 costa ; veins brown. Length of the body 6 lines ; expansion 

 of the fore wings 13 lines. Convent Garden, Mount Sinai. 



Fam. Apamid^. — Gen. Mamestka, Ochs. 



9. Mamestra mixtura. Female. — Hoary, rather slender, 

 white beneath. Palpi speckled with brown, broadly fringed 

 beneath, obliquely ascending, not rising higher than the 

 vertex ; third joint obtuse, extremely short. Abdomen 

 whitish, extending very little beyond the hind wings. Fore 

 wings with brown speckles, with two diffuse zigzag trans- 

 verse brown lines, with an intermediate zigzag brown band, 

 and with a broad brown marginal band which includes a zig- 

 zag hoary lino; orbicular mark represented by a black point; 

 reniform mark forming a small black lunule. Hind wings 



