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fore wing on upper side straw-yellow (xvi); two small sub-basal black spots 
one on vein 12, and one just below lower median; antemedial line represented 
by some black scales on vein 1 b, lower median, discal fold, upper median and 
vein 12 ; some black scales in, beyond and below cell; two black strigae at end of 
cell; a postmedial series of small black spots, curved outwardly at vein 7, 
inwardly at vein 5 and sub-median fold and from vein 4 oblique to fth of inner 
margin ; the spots are on veins 1 b to 8 and on sub-median fold ; a few black scales 
on sub-terminal area here and there between the veins ; between the veins from 
costa to tornus a series of terminal strigae ; cilia gradually getting white. Hind 
wing pure white with a few fuscous scales on origin of veins 3 and 4, and lower 
discocellular ; cilia white. Fore wing and hind wing on under side white; fore 
wing with a medial patch between veins 4 to 7 irrorated with fuscous scales; 
hairs on legs marguerite-yellow (xxx) mixed on fore femur and tibia with 
fuscous hairs. On the cotype very little of the black scales can be seen, the 
specimen is in rather worn condition and not as well preserved as the type. 
Branches of antennae to apex and about four times shaft; areole of fore 
wing exceedingly short and broad for an Antheua, but according to the other 
characters it appears to come in this genus. 
?. Like but without a trace of the antemedial spots and with more 
medial black scaling. Hind wing with some medial cinnamon-brown (xv) 
irroration. 
The proboscis is very weak but present in the $ ; in the $ the proboscis is 
entirely absent and vein 5 of the hind wing is very weak, almost absent. 
Exp. 44 mm.; 44 mm. 
Hab. $ type from the Ermelo district (collected by Miss Forbes) in coll. 
Transvaal Museum; cotypes from Durban and Charlestown, in coll. S. A. 
Museum and coll. Janse. $ in coll. Janse, bred by E. E. Platt in Sept. 1915, 
at Durban. 
Larvae feed on Tephrosia macropoda E. M. Very common at Durban in 
Oct. — Nov. 1914, but mostly parasitized. They construct a tough glutinated 
silken cocoon in the earth, and pupation is delayed for several months. 
Single brooded; the moths appearing in September (E. E. Platt.) 
Antheua Dimorpha var. brunnea nov. 
(PI. XIV, fig. 1.) 
$. Hairs on head, palpi, thorax, legs, abdomen on under side, and ground 
colour of fore wing cinnamon-brown (xv); abdomen above antimony -yellow 
(xv), at sides light buff (xv) ; shaft of antennae with cinnamon-brown scales, 
branches maize-yellow (iv) ; fore wing uniform cinnamon-brown; a few sub- 
basal black scales above and below lower median ; three bigger antemedial black 
spots on vein 12, lower median and 1 b\ a black irroration in cell beyond it till 
well before discocellulars and another black scaling on discocellulars, in- 
dicating the reniform ; a postmedial series of black outwardly angulated spots 
on veins ib to stalk of 8, 9, 10; a sub-terminal series of inwardly angulated 
black spots between the veins from above 1 b to vein 8, almost parallel to termen, 
a little further from termen near apex then near tornus; some terminal black 
scales between the veins above ib to 8; cilia of ground-colour, a little lighter 
at base. 
This and the typical form were reared from the same batch of caterpillars. 
Mr Platt kindly gave me the following information: “Feeds on Tephrosia 
macropoda E. M. ; the larvae were very common at Clare Estate, Durban, in 
Oct. — Nov. 1914, but most of them were parasitized. I have not met with them 
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