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indistinct, oblique; antemedial line indistinct, preceded by a faint light line; 
medial line indistinct, morocco-red, straight from costa along discocellulars, 
then curved inwardly beyond origin of vein 2, then obliquely curved to post- 
medial line at inner margin; a faint dark round reniform beyond discocellulars; 
postmedial line slightly undulating, inwardly oblique, most distinct of all lines 
and preceded by a faint darker line of morocco-red ; beyond this line the morocco- 
red irroration has practically ceased so that this area has a beautiful, shiny 
vinaceous-lilac tinge, which is more or less continued between 1 b and inner 
margin; sub-terminal line, from costa to tornus, consists of some irregular 
morocco-red scaling between the veins; similarly the terminal line is indicated, 
but much more faintly; cilia vinaceous-lilac, gradually getting darker towards 
the tips; hind wing pure white, with the basal half hardly and the terminal 
half more densely irrorated with sorghum-brown (xxxix) ; cilia white. 
Under side of both wings white; fore wing and abdomen tinged with 
vinaceous -tawny (xxviii); cilia as above; hind wing slightly irrorated with 
vinaceous-tawny along costal area, abdomen above fawn coloured (xl). 
Fore wing as in $ along inner margin and beyond sub-terminal line, 
but beyond medial line from below lower median a triangular patch of lobelia- 
violet (xxxvii) densely irrorated with morocco-red before and less densely 
beyond postmedial line, which passes through it; upper edge of this triangle 
incurved and on terminal side connected with a similarly coloured shading 
before sub-terminal line, this patch extends from vein 4 to vein 8 ; the medial 
corner of this triangle is connected to the rounded and more distinct reniform 
by an oblique fascia; area, as far as sub-terminal line, not occupied by the 
lobelia-violet colour, with the ground colour ochraceous-buff (xv) (as also 
indicated in one of the <£s) and densely irrorated with morocco-red; hind 
wing of cream colour (xvi), terminal half ochraceous-buff and thickly irrorated 
with morocco-red; apical part of costa coloured like cilia of fore wing; cilia 
cream coloured with some dark scaling here and there. 
var. Ground colour of fore wing, head, thorax, abdomen and legs 
avellaneous (xl), somewhat violaceous on inner and terminal area of fore wing 
as indicated by the general markings of the typical $ ; here and there some 
lighter and darker irroration on the thorax and the fore wing ; transverse lines 
and orbicular absent; cilia of both wings of same colour as the wings. 
In this species the venation of the hind wing is slightly different from what 
it is in the other species, 3 is from frd 2 to 4, the stalk of 6, 7 is somewhat 
shorter, about ^th of 7 ; the typical $ and one also have four slight crests on 
the abdomen which are somewhat hidden in the long hairs in the $ ; the has 
also a forked anal tuft of hairs. 
Exp. 33 mm. ; ? , 42 mm. ; $ var., 40 mm. 
Hab. <$ type, Pinetown (Natal), 23. 6. T7; $ cotype, Malvern (Natal), 
30. 3: T7; $ type, Krantzkloof (Natal), 12. 6. T6 (all bred by Mr E. E. Platt). 
$ var., Pretoria, 14. 7. '06 (bred, Janse). 
Larva feeds on Protea multibracteata Phillips; pupates in a loose silken 
cocoon between the leaves of the food plant (E. E. Platt). 
Genus PECTINOPHORA nov. 
(PI. I, fig- 7 ; PI. II, figs- H-17O 
Type noctuijormis. 
g. Proboscis well developed; palpi upturned, reaching vertex of head; 
first joint much curved and with long hairs in front; second joint about two 
times first joint, nearly straight, covered with hairs and scales, which are 
