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Annals of the Transvaal Museum 
Breyeria Dasychiroides spec. nov. 
(PI. XIV, fig. io; PL V, fig. 16; PI. VIII, figs. 20-25.) 
Hairs on head and thorax above light mouse-grey (li), densely irrorated 
with black ; palpi black, fringed with light mouse-grey hairs in front ; shaft of 
antennae drab (xlvi), branches fuscous (xlvi); abdomen above vinaceous-buff 
(xl), on under side whitish; fore wing with ground colour white, densely 
irrorated with fuscous and fuscous-black (xlvi), especially dense between sub- 
basal and antemedial lines, postmedial and sub-terminal lines; area before 
sub-basal line opaline-green (vii) with a few black scales here and there; sub- 
basal line black, faint from costa to lower median, then forming a long tooth 
outwardly below lower median, which is well defined and continued as a line 
to antemedial line, then erect to la and still distinct, then forming an indistinct 
tooth with rounded point above inner margin ; a fuscous striga beyond sub-basal 
line from costa to upper median; antemedial line black, distinct, inwardly 
oblique from costa to upper median, then curved outwards and still more 
oblique to plical fold, where it is connected with the black streak from sub-basal 
line, then erect to inner margin; a fuscous diffused line before it from costa 
to lower median; medial line diffused, fuscous, nearly straight and inwardly 
oblique, preceded in the cell by some opaline -green scales ; in the cell the medial 
line is narrow and black and followed by a pure white reniform, which is 
outwardly edged by a black inwardly curved striga; postmedial line double, 
inwardly oblique from costa to areole, then curved outwards till vein 3 and still 
oblique, then curved inwardly to vein 2, then erect to inner margin, meanwhile 
outwardly curved at plical fold and inwardly just above 1 b; inner postmedial 
line black and well defined, outer line fuscous, sharply defined on inner side, 
but becoming diffused on outer side except from costa to areole, where it is 
well defined on both sides and fuscous-black; two oblique fuscous dashes from 
costa to vein 10, last dash followed by a larger and darker striga along stalk 
of 8, 9 ; a rather broad black line beginning on vein 7 at sub-terminal line, well 
curved obliquely to vein 3 at about middle of that vein, then curved inwards 
between veins 3 and 2, and diffused, then outwardly oblique and diffused to 
tomus; some opaline-green scaling before it between costa and vein 3, and with 
no irroration beyond it between vein 5 and tornus; a very fine sub-terminal 
black line, continuous from apex to vein 4, then becoming erect and zig- 
zagging on the veins; the irroration is almost absent between antemedial and 
medial lines from lower median to inner margin and between medial and post- 
medial lines over the whole breadth of wing ; cilia of ground colour checkered 
with white on the veins. Hind wing pure white; cilia white. Under side: fore 
wing and hind wing pure white; fore wing densely suffused with fuscous along 
the costa and along terminal area from postmedial line near costa obliquely 
to tornus; a postmedial dark ill-defined line from costa to vein 2; cilia 
fuscous, at veins whitish ; thorax and legs tilleul-buff (xl) ; three black lines, 
on the tibia; first tarsal joints irrorated with black, other joints quite black 
at front. 
Exp. 29 mm. 
Hab. $ type, Nelspruit, 19. 10. T7 (Dr H. G. Breyer), in collection 
Transvaal Museum; cotype collected at the same time and place in colh 
Janse. 
