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black, much indented on inner side at upper and lower median, plical fold and 
i b ; some black oblique scaling along costa before and beyond it; median line 
faint, smoke-grey (xlvi), narrow, somewhat incurved below lower median and 
dented outwardly on the veins; postmedial line, like antemedial line, double, 
with a thin white line between them, but inner line black, outer line brazil-red, 
becoming orange-fuscous (ii) below vein 3; inner black line faint, mixed with 
orange-rufous scales between veins 2 and 3, almost straight till vein 4, then 
somewhat curved to tornus; both lines indented outwardly on most of the 
veins, especially the black line; immediately beyond the brazil -red band, but 
separated from it by a somewhat broad white line, another band, somewhat 
diffused on the edges, rather broad near costa and tapering towards vein 3, 
then curved inwardly and faint between vein 2 and plical fold; this band is 
brazil -red with here and there some white scales between the costa and vein 7, 
then brazil-red and more or less irrorated with black scales, most densely 
between 3 and 7; a sub-terminal series of black lunate spots between the veins, 
from vein 2 to 7 ; cilia ivory-yellow except at tornus, where they are mixed with 
black and brazil-red hairs and scales; hind wing: all veins and plical fold 
irrorated with fuscous black along postmedial area joining a terminal irrorate 
line; cilia coloured like hind wing. Under side: two or three fuscous oblique 
costal strigae on veins 10-12 near apex ; all veins of both wings more or less 
strongly irrorated with fuscous and fuscous-black from medial line to termen; 
plical fold also irrorated for a short distance; fore wing with a sub-terminal 
fuscous-black shading from tornus to vein 7, towards which it becomes 
narrower, undulating inwardly between the veins; a more pronounced fuscous- 
black terminal line, somewhat broken up by ground colour between most of 
the veins, well sinuated inwardly between the veins and extending from 1 a 
to 8 ; cilia of ground colour, tipped with ivory -yellow ; hind wing with a very 
thin fuscous-black terminal line; cilia as in fore wing. 
Exp. 60 mm. 
Hab. S. Rhodesia (Umtali), 1917. One $ only, but two other <^s are in 
Father O’Neil’s collection. 
This beautiful species has been presented to me by Father O’Neil, but I 
understand that he has not caught it himself. Though slightly greasy, it is in 
fairly good condition. 
Genus CHADISRA. 
(PI. V, fig. 9; Pl. VI, figs. 26-28; PI. VII, figs. 1-6.) 
Chadisra Wik. Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond. ser. 3, 1. p. 81 (1862). 
Hmpsn. Moths of India, 1. p. 159. 
Schaus. Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond. p. 31 1 (1901). 
Type bipars Wlk. Description made of curvilinea. 
$. Proboscis rather stout; palpi upturned, almost reaching vertex of 
head, covered with scales and hairs; first joint well curved and about ^rd of 
palpus in length; second joint almost two times first joint, cylindrical; third 
joint very small, about |rd of first joint; eyes naked, large, rounded; antennae 
about half of costa, in dentate and fasciculate in some species ( curvilinea ), 
bipectinate till tip in others; in $ ciliate or shortly bipectinate; first joint 
with a large anterior and posterior tuft of scales and hairs; femora and tibiae 
covered with hairs and scale-like hairs; tarsi with spines on inner side and 
covered with scales ; fore tibia with a keel shaped process, which is rather short 
and blunt in the longer and ending in a curved point in the $; on the edges 
of this process are rows of stiff hairs and the process itself is partly hidden in 
