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loose scales as far as vein 2 ; a broad black fascia below vein 2, from the whitish 
antemedial patch as far as white line between postmedial line and sub-terminal 
line; some black scales on costa beyond postmedial line; a white zigzag line 
from vein 8 to tornus between postmedial and sub-terminal lines, interrupted 
by a broad, black fascia between veins 3 and 4, which nearly reaches sub- 
terminal line; some black patches between the veins before this white line; 
sub-terminal line well defined, irregularly curved between the veins and from 
vein 8 to 1 b, shaded on outer side with whitish, greenish-glaucous and black 
scales gradually forming a blackish shade into the cilia; cilia greenish-glaucous 
at the veins and brownish towards tip. 
Hind wing densely irrorated with bister (xxix) especially at the veins and 
on termen, except the costal area, which is greenish-glaucous and has three 
indistinct black bars; cilia bister except at the veins and at the tips, where 
they are whitish. 
Under side of fore wing cream colour at inner marginal area, but remainder 
warm sepia (xxix) and bister; cilia bister and distinctly dotted with cream 
colour at the tips; three cream coloured dashes at apex on costa; hind wing 
cream colour, some warm sepia scaling towards costa and on the veins; cilia 
warm sepia with cream coloured specks at the veins. 
Exp. 41 mm. 
Hab. Krantzkloof (Natal), 15. 6. T6. Bred by E. E. Platt. One type. 
I have much pleasure in naming this beautiful species after its collector 
who kindly presented it to my collection. 
Larva feeds on Mimusops discolor Sond., pupates in a brittle earthen 
cocoon (E. E. Platt). 
Desmeocraera Steniptera. 
(PI. IV, figs. 12, 13.) 
Stauropus steniptera Hmpsn. A.M.N.H. 8. v. p. 471 (1910). 
I have in my collection specimens collected in S. Rhodesia at Umvuma 
12. ’17, Emangeni 18. 1. ’18; Salisbury 27. 10. ’17 (R. Jack); all these are <$s, 
and in the Transvaal Museum are two specimens, $ and $ from Pretoria in 
Jan. 1898. 
This and the following species are peculiar for their very short pectination 
of the antennae; in the $ they are- even simple and fasciculated; the palpi 
are also much shorter, more porrect and covered with hairs only, the second 
joint is as long as the first joint and the third joint is half as long; the process 
of the fore leg is much more pointed and somewhat curved ; in the fore wing vein 
10 originates from or from before vein 7. 
In this species the sub-basal lines and especially the postmedial lines are 
very indistinct and diffused in the specimens I have seen; they also range from 
38 to 44 mm. 
Desmeocraera Pergrisea. 
Stauropus pergrisea Hmpsn. A.M.N.H. 8. v. p. 472 (1910). 
Lhave one worn <$ in my collection from Durban, collected in Nov. 
Species auctorum: The following species have been placed by Sir George 
Hampson in the genus Stauropus, but I have little doubt, that they all have to 
be placed in Desmeocraera ; D. hierax has been placed by me in Pararethona. 
Stauropus atribasalis Hmpsn. A.M.N.H. 8. v. p. 467 (1910). 
Stauropus octoginta Hmpsn. l.c. p. 468 (1910). 
Stauropus agramma Hmpsn. l.c. p. 471 (1910). 
Stauropus griseiviridis Hmpsn. l.c. p. 469 (1910)- 
