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median line is very faint; most veins indicated by black between medial and 
postmedial lines; postmedial line consisting of a series of four lines, from costa 
- oblique to 7 where they are curved inwards to vein 5, somewhat excurved on 
vein 3 and then oblique to inner margin ; first line black, second warm buff (xv) , 
third fuscous from costa to vein 6, then indistinct to vein 4, then russet, fourth 
line french-grey, represented by some scales only from costa to vein 4 ; veins 
beyond postmedial line irregularly scaled with black and french-grey; costal 
area beyond postmedial line and above vein 7 fuscous-black; area between 7 
and 2 russet, with a warm buff line in the middle which is dentated inwardly 
on the veins and followed by some warm buff sub-terminal lunules between veins 
2 to 7, and edged terminally by some black scales; between 1 b and 2, and 7 to 9 
these lunules are only represented by black scales; area below vein 2 french- 
grey; a very narrow sinuate black terminal line with french -grey points on end 
of veins; cilia fuscous-black. Hind wing cartridge -buff, terminal half thickly 
irrorated with fuscous; inner marginal area with long cream -buff (xxx) hairs; 
cilia fuscous, tipped with cartridge-buff scales. 
Under side cartridge-buff; fore wing very densely irrorated and suffused 
with fuscous ; hind wing with some fuscous irroration along costa ; cilia as above 
but lighter; shaft of antennae fuscous-black, branches russet; abdomen at base 
with some fuscous-black long hairs in middle and cartridge -buff hairs at sides. 
Exp. $ type, 36 mm.; 2 <$ cotypes and 9 other $s. 
Hab. All the specimens were collected at Umtali (S. Rhodesia), from 5 — 
15. 1. * 1 8. I have seen no other specimens of this species in other collections. 
In general appearance this species resembles very much the figure of 
Lophopteryx saturata given in Hampson’s Moths of India, vol. 1. fig. 102, 
except that the hind wing of that species shows strigae at the tornus of the hind 
wing and of these not a trace is seen in noctuiformis. 
Genus LOPHOPTERYX. 
(PI. I, fig. 8; PI. II, figs. 18-23.) 
Lophopteryx Steph. III. Brit. Ent. Haust. n. p. 26 (1892). Type camelina. 
Hmpsn. Moths of India, 1. p. 166. 
Spuler. Schmett. Eur. 1. p. 98. 
Schaus. Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond. p. 328 (1901). 
Pack. Mem. of the Nat. Acad, of Sciences, vii. p. 154 (1895). 
Description made from L. uniformis. 
$. Proboscis present but rather short; palpi short, porrect, just reaching 
frons, covered with scales, hairs and hair-like scales; first joint short; second 
joint about half length of palpus, slightly curved; third joint roundly pointed, 
nearly half of second joint; frons rounded; eyes naked, round, about as large as 
length of palpi; antennae with a small tuft at base; shaft short, less than half 
of costa, very much curved, bipectinated till tip; branches about three times 
shaft, bluntly pointed and covered with rather long cilia which stand rather 
far apart; fore tibia with a process reaching till end of tibia; this process is 
somewhat cylindrical and hollow at base, then, at befoie half its length it 
flattens and broadens so as to become leaf-like, then curved, with the apex 
roundly pointed, the outer side of the process is covered with scales and hairs 
and the edges of the leaf-like part have bristle-like hairs, the hollow side is 
towards the tibia; mid tibia with two spurs, hind tibia with median spurs as 
well ; the longer inner spurs are about ^rd of tibia, the outer spur is about Jrd 
