LEPIDOPTERA HETEROCERA. 793 



cante-cinerea nigro marginata et notata fascium cineream 

 extus ferrugineo marginatam includente, litura discali atra 

 angusta, punctis duobus inlerioribus nigris. 



Female. Slaty cinereous, paler beneath. Palpi black, sub- 

 securiform, obtuse, white beneath, except at the tips. Thorax 

 black on each side in front. Fore wings with a very broad 

 deeply dentate blackish cinereous band, which is bordered and 

 partly traversed with black, and is dilated hind ward and contains a 

 well defined cinereous band, which is dilated in front and is broadly 

 bordered with ferruginous on the outer side, and has black points 

 along its inner side ; discal mark deep black, transverse, narrow; two 

 black points in the disk nearer the base. Hind wings with the bands 

 much like those of the fore wings, obsolete in front. Wings with a 

 black marginal festoon ; under side with a black discal point and a 

 broad blackish diffuse marginal band. Length of the body 5 

 lines ; of the wings 14 lines. 



South Africa. In Mr. D'Urban's colleciion. 



Erastria figurata. 



Fcsm. Sckistacea, ales anticce lineis basalibus quinque undulatis 

 nigricantibus, fascia nigra recta intus cancisa, lituris tribus 

 discalibus atris, linea exteriore Jlexa fasciisque duabus adhuc 

 exterioribus nigris, fascia 2a marginali interrupta, linea sub- 

 marginali cinerea arcuata biangulata, lunulis marginalibus 

 nigris cinereo marginatis : posticce fuscescente-cinerece. 



Female. Slaty cinereous, dingy cinereous beneath. Palpi 

 vertical, not rising higher than the head ; second joint curved, 

 much longer than the third, which is lanceolate. Fore wings with 

 five undulating blackish lines near the base; a black straight band, 

 concise on the inner side, including with an exterior line (which forms 

 a rounded outward an^le) three deep black marks; first mark 

 lunulate; second longitudinally elliptical, accompanied by two 

 black points ; third hind ward, larger, subquadrate ; space beyond 

 the exterior line with two black bands, of which the marginal one 

 is ^interrupted ; submarginal line cinereous, curved in the middle, 

 forming two angles, enclosing with the marginal line black cinereous- 

 bordered lunules. Hind wings brownish cinereous ; fringe pale 

 cinereous. Length of the body 5 lines; of the wings 12 lines. 



South Africa. In Mr. D'Urban's collection. 



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