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to tip; branches gradually getting shorter; pecten about four times shaft and 
with fine cilia exteriorly; shaft about half of costa, first joint sub-globular and 
with a tuft of hairs in front ; in $ antennae half of costa, simple, ciliated ; legs, 
covered with hairs only (except in fuse ata, where there are also some scales), 
on femurs very long; fore tibia with a broad, somewhat pointed process hidden 
in dense hairs ; mid tibia with two rather long pointed spurs, which are covered 
with short hairs, outer spurs shorter than inner ones ; hind tibia with 4 long 
pointed spurs' covered with short hairs and of which the outer ones are the 
shortest; tarsi with hairs and scales; a pointed tuft of hairs on mesothorax. 
Fore wing rather broad; costa and inner margin nearly parallel; costa straight,, 
rounded towards apex; apex sub-acute; outer margin somewhat oblique, 
rounded between veins 2 to 6 ; tornus rounded ; inner margin straight ; 1 b 
faintly forked at base, curved at frd, then straight; 2 from beyond fth lower 
median; 3 from middle of distance 2 to 4; 4 from lower angle; 5 from middle 
of discocellulars, which are erect, somewhat rounded above and below vein 5 ; 
6 from just below upper angle; 7 from upper angle and connected by a short 
bar at fth of 7 with stalk of 8, 9, 10 to form a moderate areole, about four times, 
as long as broad; 8 stalked with 9 and 10; 9 from frd, 10 from frd the distance 
from end of areole to apex; 11 from frd upper median; 12 parallel to costa. 
Hind wing semi-circular; costa excurved at frd, somewhat incurved at frd; 
apex well rounded ; outer margin very oblique, well curved, shortly lobed at 3 ; 
tornus well rounded ; inner margin well curved ; 1 a nearly straight ; 1 b curved ; 
2 from well beyond middle of lower median; 3 from well beyond middle of 
distance 2 to 4; 4 from lower angle; 5 straight, rather faint and from middle 
of discocellulars, which are very oblique from 4 to 5, erect from 5 to upper 
angle ; 6 and 7 stalked for nearly frd of 6 and from upper angle ; upper median 
well curved at terminal half; 8 curved upwards at base and approximated to 
upper median at middle of cell and connected to it at beyond frd by a bar. 
The description given by Distant is in several respects both vague and 
inaccurate, I think. The porrect position of the palpi is, I think, due to the 
downward position of the head, as the curve of the first joint indicates a more 
upturned position; the antennae of the male are clearly bipectinated, not 
obscurely as stated; no mention is made of an areole and the other characters 
given have little generic value; no spurs are mentioned, which are conspicuous ; 
the figure is evidently that of a $. 
Species in South Africa : 
1 a. Hind wing white in $ . . . . . . . modestus 
b. Hind wing fuscous in (probably also in $) . . . . 2 
2 a. Fore wing with an oblique fascia from apex to near vein 5; a second 
fascia, nearly parallel to first, from vein 5 near outer margin to 
vein 3 ; a terminal series of black spots between veins 1 b — 7 fuscata 
b. No oblique fascia on fore wing and no terminal black spots; a dark 
diffused fascia above lower median and vein 4; 6 slightly stalked 
with areole; areole longer than in modestus . . nigrosparsa 
Polienus Modestus. 
(PI. X, figs. 12-17.) 
Polienus modestus Dist. Ins. Transv. iv. p. 94, fig. 10 (1899). 
Most of my $s have white hind wings, but one specimen from Umtali has 
the terminal half tinted with hair-brown. 
I have this species from Pretoria, Bultfontein, Rustenburg, Waterval 
onder, Barberton (Transvaal); Karkloof, Sarnia, -Umkomaas (Natal); Umtali 
S. Rhodesia); in Jan., Febr., March, Nov. 
