748 CATALOGUE OP 



Male, Cinereous. Head fawn-colour above. Proboscis pale 

 tawny. Palpi black, whitish beneath and towards the tips. An- 

 tenna? black. Abdomen fawn-colour at the base and at the tip. 

 Tarsi black; joints with whitish tips. Fore wings aeneous-brown, 

 with two shining cinereous bands, each of which contains a slight 

 blackish denticulated line ; a large irregular deep black mark 

 between the bands, excavated in front; three transverse black costal 

 marks ; first near the base, longer than the second and than the 

 third, which are opposite the mark in the disk ; submarginal line 

 blackish, zigzag ; marginal points black, transversely elongated ; 

 fringe and an apical spot shining cinereous. Hind wings cinereous, 

 tinged with aeneous on the veins and about the border. Length of 

 the body 8 lines; of the wings 16 lines. 



a. Natal. From M. Gueinzius' collection. 



Genus LOCHIA. 



Fcem. Corpus robustum, laeve. Proboscis mediocris. Palpi 

 erecti, verticem paullo superantes ; articulus 2us brevi-pilosus ; 3us 

 lanceolatus, 2i dimidio non brevior. Antennae graciles. Abdomen 

 attenuatum, alas posticas superans. Pedes lasves ; calcaiia longa, 

 gracilia. Alae anticae latiuscula?, apice subrotundatae, margine 

 exteriore subobliquo, cysta discali antemedia. 



Female, Body stout, smooth. Proboscis of the usual length. 

 Palpi erect, rising a little higher than the vertex ; second joint 

 clothed with short thick-set hairs ; third lanceolate, full half the 

 length of the second. Antennae slender. Abdomen tapering from 

 the base to the tip, extending rather beyond the hind wings. Legs 

 smooth ; spurs long and slender. Wings rather broad. Fore wings 

 slightly rounded at the tips ; exterior border very slightly oblique ; 

 an excavation in the disk before the middle corresponding to a valve 

 on the under side. 



Lochia apicalis. 



Fcem. Chalybceo-fusca ; alee anticae rufescente subvarice, lineis 

 quatuor atris anqulosis, 3a 4aque postice appruximatis, punctis 

 marginalibus al.bidis parvis, macula apicali albida, reniformi 

 magna nigro albidoque marginata ; posticce ceneo-fascce. 



