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discal fold to termen at vein 3. I have seen another specimen in Mr E. E. 
Platt’s collection, collected at Durban, in which the sub-terminal spots and the 
terminal black striae are entirely absent. 
Hab. Natal. 
Larva feeds on Tvimeria alnifolia Planch (E. E. Platt) ; pupates in silken 
cocoon between leaves of food plant. 
ICHTHYURA ROSEOTINCTA Spec. nOV. 
(PI. XIII, fig. 4; PI. I, fig. 6; PL II, figs. 6-10.) 
<$, $. Ground colour of thorax and fore wing congo-pink (xxviii), of abdomen 
on both sides, thorax, wings on under side, hairs on hind wing on upper side 
and legs pale vinaceous-fawn (xl) ; tuft of thorax in front, palpi at sides and 
costal area of fore wing densely irrorated with orange-cinnamon (xxix) ; some 
blackish hairs mixed with vinaceous-fawn hairs on frons; antennae with shaft 
pale congo-pink and a few orange-cinnamon scales, branches Rood’s brown 
(xviii). Fore wing, especially basal frd, irrorated with orange-cinnamon, 
terminal part only slightly, so as to have a light vinaceous-fawn (xl) tinge in 
certain light; sub-basal line outwardly oblique, straight from costa to lower 
median, then along lower median outwardly, then somewhat incurved and 
continued to inner margin ; antemedial line from costa to inner margin nearly 
parallel to sub-basal, excurved between costa and 1 b, then straight and oblique 
to inner margin; medial line from near costa and just touching the reniform, 
which is large, round and brownish-drab (xlv), in $ less distinct; medial line 
then well incurved as far as sub-median fold, then straight and outwardly 
oblique to join postmedial line at 1 b\ all these lines, a ring around the reniform 
and the postmedial line of ground colour; sub-basal line on inner side, antemedial 
line on outer side, and postmedial line on both sides rather darker edged with 
orange-cinnamon irroration; postmedial line nearly straight and inwardly 
oblique, slightly excurved at vein 6, gently incurved between 6 and sub-median 
fold, then somewhat excurved above 1 b and joining median line ; a sub- terminal 
slightly irregular, faint line, consisting of blackish scales and preceded by a 
line of ground colour, the blackish line somewhat excurved between 4 and 
beyond 3 ; cilia of ground colour, in £ tipped with black scales, in $ blackish 
at base. 
Hind wing with costal area, terminal half, inner marginal area and lower 
median thinly irrorated with orange-cinnamon ; cilia whitish with a few orange- 
cinnamon scales. 
Under side: fore wing pale vinaceous-fawn; costa narrowly and termen 
broadly tinged with sayal -brown (xxix) ; cilia as on upper side ; hind wing 
uniform pale vinaceous-fawn. 
Exp. 32 mm.; 34 mm. 
Hab. $ and $ type from Salisbury 8—10. 2. ’17, bred by Mr R. Jack, who 
kindly presented three specimens to me. 
ICHTHYURA VlOLACEARIA Spec. nOV. 
(PL XIII, figs. 5, 6.) 
cJ. Head, palpi, thorax, hairs on legs and ground colour of fore wing 
vinaceous-lilac (xliv), more or less densely, but finely, irrorated with morocco- 
red (i) ; fore wing with the transverse lines of ground colour and only faintly 
visible on account of morocco-red irroration; this irroration is very dense 
before postmedial line between the costa and vein 1 b; sub-terminal line very 
