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antennae with white scales ; legs ringed with fuscous-black ; a small black spot 
on head in the middle near the thorax ; a transverse fascia on thorax of black 
and shiny bluish slate-black (xlviii) scales ; a similar but narrower line of scales 
on metathorax; abdomen on upper side, except basal part, covered with bluish 
slate-black scales mixed with a few whitish scales. 
Fore wing: all markings black; a few black scales at base below lower 
median and a small sub-basal patch on lower median; an interrupted sub- 
basal line from costa to inner margin, interrupted in cell and at i b\ an ante- 
medial black broad fascia from costa to inner margin, inner edge indented at 
vein 12 and upper median, excurved in cell, indented at plical fold and i b, 
outer edge somewhat excurved at the veins with a sharp dent at plical fold and 
below i b ; medial line indicated by a black spot at costa and three strigae below 
lower median ; a black mark below it, a faint striga in cell and a distinct black 
striga on discocellulars ; postmedial line interrupted, double and irregular, 
beginning on costa as a broad triangular patch, then both lines faint on the 
veins, angled outwards at 3, 2 and 1 b; a sub-terminal distinct, continuous, 
irregular line from apex to near tornus, broad from costa to beyond vein 3, 
then narrow except between 1 b and 2 where it becomes confluent with a 
fuscous (xlvi) irroration at tornus, very much angled inwards at vein 8, 6, 5, 4 
and between 2 and 1 b, outwards above vein 8, between 6 and 7, and just above 
3, 2, ib] a terminal series of spots, two between 1 b and 2, and one between 
the veins 2 to 9 ; these spots are continued with brussels-brown (iii) scales into 
the cilia which are otherwise white. 
Hind wing : an elongate patch of black scales on middle of 1 b ; a fuscous 
diffused mark at upper discocellular; some fuscous-black scales at tornus; 
in the cilia broad fuscous patches between the veins, two between 1 b and 2, 
and one between the other veins; markings of under side somewhat visible 
through the white on upper side. 
Under side white. Fore wing on costa with elongate markings on basal, 
sub-basal, antemedial, medial and a postmedial area, first mark black, the 
others gradually becoming fuscous; a diffused fuscous mark at discocellulars 
and a diffusion in cell before it; postmedial band broad, ill-defined, fuscous, 
ending just beyond vein 2 ; sub-terminal and terminal area thickly suffused with 
fuscous, except at costa where a few white marks are left; checkered fuscous 
patches on cilia as on upper side. Hind wing with a black discocellular ovate 
patch, indicating postmedial line, from costa till vein 5; terminal band and 
cilia as on fore wing; abdomen with last segment covered with fuscous-black 
hairs. 
The palpi of this species are very short. 
Exp. 56 mm. 
Hab. Southern Rhodesia. Only one specimen, kindly presented to my 
collection by the Bulawayo Museum, unfortunately without further data as to 
locality or date of collection. 
The species comes perhaps nearest to spiritalis. 
Cerura Esmeralda. 
Cerura esmeralda Hmpsn. A.M.N.H. 8. v. p. 458 (1910). 
Two «^s and two $s in my collection from Pretoria, Febr. T4; Oct. ’09, T4; 
Salisbury, Febr. T6. 
Mr K. Munro bred the Pretoria specimens from caterpillars feeding on 
Protea spec. Bred by E. E. Platt on Protea hirta Klotzsch, and P. multi- 
bracteata Phillips. Constructs a tough cocoon on stem of food plant. 
