Annals of the Transvaal Museum 
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very indistinct, only indicated by some black scales at costa; two black diffused 
spots in cell, the first and biggest rounded and just above origin of vein 2, 
the other smaller. and at lower angle of cell; a third rounded black spot below 
lower median and just before vein 2, all three surrounded by whitish scales; 
postmedial line black, double, indistinct and dentated at the veins, angled at 
veins 7 and 5, incurved between veins 6 and 3 ; some white lines between the two 
lines ; sub-terminal faint, black irregular at the veins, very much angled inwards 
at veins 2 and 3 ; cilia mouse-grey, cartridge -buff at the veins. Hind wing white, 
with three broad diffused bars of black and olive-buff scales, from costa to vein 
6; first bar at fork of 6, 7, third bar at apex and second in middle; some black 
terminal scales at apex; inner marginal area with long tilleul-buff (xl) hairs; 
outer margin with some mouse-grey edging; cilia white, except at apex. 
Under side of both wings white; fore wing densely irrorated with light 
cinnamon-drab (xlvi) especially at costa ; cilia light cinnamon-drab mixed with 
black; cilia of hind wing white. 
Exp. 43 mm. 
Hab. Malvern (Natal), 4. 7. ’16 (bred by Mr E. E. Platt). 
Only one $ is known to me, , which Mr Platt kindly presented to my col- 
lection. 
Larva feeds on Eugenia cordata Laws. ; pupates in a brittle earthen cocoon 
(E. E. Platt). 
Desmeocraera Platti spec. nov. 
(PL XIII, fig. 16.) 
cJ. Head, and thorax above greenish glaucous (xli) mixed with white and 
black hairs and scales; frons of head, palpi except at front, tibiae of fore legs 
on inner side, all tarsi on upper side, hairs of prothorax on under side chestnut- 
brown (xiv) ; palpi at front, narrow rings on tarsi, under side and inner side of 
tibiae and tarsi cream-buff (xxx) ; greenish glaucous hairs, mixed with black 
and chestnut-brown hairs on upper side of tibiae and femora; shaft of antennae 
black, branches antique-brown (iii) ; abdomen on upper side, Hay’s brown 
(xxxix) except at the base where there is a tuft of long hairs like those of thorax 
and except the last segments which are covered with olivine (xxxii) scales; 
thorax and abdomen on under side cream colour (xvi). 
Fore wing with ground colour deep chrysolite -green (xxxi) mixed with 
sea-foam yellow (xxxi) and black scales; a few black basal scales; sub-basal 
line black with rough sea-foam -yellow scales on outer side, angled outwards 
at vein 12, curved inwards to basal line at lower median, then forming a rounded 
black patch at between lower median and 1 b, then indistinct; a tuft of light 
buff (xv) hairs at base on inner margin ; a black streak on upper median from 
sub-basal to near antemedial line, and some black scales above it along costa; 
antemedial line black, narrow and preceded by rough white scales, excurved 
from costa to median fold, then erect to lower median, then interrupted by a 
rounded whitish patch between lower median and 1 b, which has some greenish 
glaucous (xli) scales in its centre, then indistinct to inner margin ; medial line 
preceded by whitish scales on costa, then faint at orbicular, then curved between 
lower median and sub-median fold, forming the outer edge of the light patch, 
then forming a curve outwardly till below vein 1 b, then somewhat excurved 
to inner margin ; orbicular and reniform broadly edged by whitish rough scales, 
the former round, the latter reniform; postmedial line double, faint', black, 
curved outwards at near costa, then oblique and well dentated on the veins; 
outer postmedial line followed by an often double line of whitish scales; costal 
half of wing between medial and postmedial lines densely covered with whitish 
