Annals of the Transvaal Museum 
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rather long in front; third joint short, about half first joint, somewhat oblique; 
eyes large, rounded, naked; frons oblique and with a tuft of moderate stiff 
hairs; thorax without crests and covered with hairs and hairlike scales; 
abdomen with lateral tufts of hairs at each segment; antennae a little over 
half of costa, bipectinated till tip, branches about six times shaft, somewhat 
curved forwardly at the tips and ciliated on both sides; first joint of shaft 
with a tuft of hairs; fore tibia with a twisted process nearly reaching end of 
tibia and almost hidden in the long hairs; femurs of all legs and of fore legs 
especially covered with long hairs on inner side, with scales at the sides; two 
spurs on the mid tibia, four spurs on hind tibia; spurs about ^rd of tibia in 
length, outer spurs |rd shorter than inner and all covered with hairs and hair- 
like scales and ending in a somewhat curved smooth point; tarsi with spines 
on inner side. 
Fore wing broad, sub-triangular; costa straight; apex somewhat rounded; 
termen nearly erect, curved and somewhat sinuate; tornus rounded; inner 
margin with a round lobe at basal half on which are two triangular tufts of 
scales and a small tuft just beyond postmedial line; 1 b simple at base, curved ; 
2 from f rd lower median, curved ; 3 from |th 2 to 4 and curved ; 4 from lower 
angle, curved; 5 from just above middle of discocellulars; discocellulars out- 
wardly oblique, nearly straight; 6 from below upper angle; areole long, rather 
narrow; 7 from end of areole; stalk of 8, 9, 10 from end of areole; 9 from just 
beyond half distance end of cell to apex; 10 from |rd of stalk; 11 from about 
frd upper median; 12 parallel to costa. Hind wing triangular; costa well 
arched; apex rounded; outer margin very oblique and well rounded, slightly 
sinuate ; tornus rounded ; inner margin nearly straight except at 1 a where it 
is slightly lobed; 1 a straight, moderate; 1 b somewhat curved; 2 from well 
beyond half of lower median ; 3 from f th 2 to 4 ; 4 from lower angle ; 5 rather 
weak and from above middle of discocellulars ; discocellulars outwardly oblique; 
6 and 7 stalked for Jth of whole of 6 and from upper angle; upper median well 
curved ; 8 curved at base, then curved towards upper median at frd and running 
parallel with it till frd, beyond this it is connected with the upper median by 
a rather long oblique bar, then curved towards apex. 
This genus is near to Hyperaeschra from which the fore wing differs in the 
more erect outer margin, shorter wing-length, the two tufts on the inner 
margin and veins 3 and 4 of both wings being farther apart and 6 of fore wing 
being remote from the areole. From Lophopteryx it differs in the upturned 
palpi, position of vein 6 of fore wing, and less sinuate outer margin. 
Pectinophora Noctuiformis spec. nov. 
(PI. XIII, fig. 7; PI. I, fig. 7; PI. II, figs, n-17.) 
c?. Hairs on head, thorax and fore legs, fore wing as far as postmedial line 
and along the whole costa shiny fuscous-black (xlvi); mid and hind legs 
fuscous-black; tarsi ringed with ivory-yellow (xxx) ; abdomen on upper and 
under side hair -brown (xlvi) ; fore wing with a faint basal black line ; medial 
line single from costa to lower median, then double and black, double lines 
filled in with russet (xv) and preceded by some french -grey (lii) scales; the 
medial line is oblique from costa and rounded along discocellulars, where there 
is some black scaling, then oblique to inner margin at tuft of scales, forming a 
tooth inwardly just below lower median and at 1 b; both lines fuscous-black, 
preceded by some french-grey scales ; two fine black lines in cell from near base 
to discocellulars, lower line shortest; a fine black line on terminal half of lower 
median and another below it from base to russet scaling and where the inner 
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