Annals of the Transvaal Museum 
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Underside whitish green, unmarked; costal edge and fringes nearly as 
above. 
Rhodesia (A. J. T. Janse): Hope Fountain, 16 January 1918, type c? in 
coll. Janse; Shangani, October 1918, allotype $ in coll. L. B. Prout. 
The $ has the fore wing very slightly less broad, but with the costal margin 
more regularly curved. The legs are unfortunately lost and it is possible the 
species may have to be transferred to Hemidromodes. If not, it forms a new 
section of Syndromodes, by the dilated d' hind tibia. In any case it is dis- 
tinguishable from invenusta by the duller face and more distinct lines, from 
cellulata by the much duller face, less bluish ground-colour and absence of 
white cell-marks. The anastomosis of C of the hind wing is rather less long 
than in typical Syndromod&s, but this varies in dimensa and in Hemidromodes. 
MiCTOSCHEMA gen. nov. 
Face smooth. Palpus moderate, heavily scaled, 3rd joint in small, in $ 
somewhat longer. Tongue wanting or vestigial. Antenna rather short; in S 
bipectinate, with apical part merely serrate; in $ lamellate, with serrate teeth. 
Pectus and femora slightly hairy. Metathorax and abdomen crested. Hind 
tibia not dilated, with four approximated spurs. Wings densely scaled. 
Frenulum in both sexes wanting. Fore wing with costa between the slightly 
convex basal and distal parts straight or almost concave, termen faintly waved, 
rather strongly oblique, straightish between SC^ and M^, tornus not strong; 
cell well under one-half, DC incurved, oblique posteriorly, SC^ from cell, 
anastomosing with C, SC^ from stalk of stalked, R‘^ very character- 
istic, just separate. Hind wing with costa not long, apex rounded, termen 
nearly as in fore wing, abdominal margin elongate; cell less than one-half, 
DC oblique posteriorly, C anastomosing with SC at a point near base, rapidly 
diverging, 5 C^ separate, very characteristic, shortly stalked. 
Type: MiCTOSCHEMA SWIERSTRAI sp. nov. 
A most interesting genus, suggesting a real blood -relationship with 
Mimandria, in which the frenulum is fully developed, thorax not crested, etc., 
and — considered in conjunction with the following species of Holoterpna (?) — 
a possible clue to the origin of some of the obscure specialised genera such as 
Cacochloris and Holoterpna. 
8. Mictoschema swierstrai sp. nov. (PI. I, fig. n). ^ 
S, 30-31 mm.; $, 41 mm. Face black. Palpus pale grey, 2nd joint mixed 
with black on outer side, 3rd joint mostly black above. Vertex pale grey, in 
middle mixed with red-brown. Antennal shaft blackish proximally, grey 
distally. Thorax and abdomen pale grey, the crests mixed with brown. Legs 
grey, in part blackened on inner side. 
Fore wing pale grey with a slight admixture of brown and with blackish 
irroration; some irregular blackish marks at base; lines fine, black, slightly 
pale-edged on their remote sides; antemedian at one-third, slightly excurved 
in middle, in ^ scarcely sinuate, in $ angled inward on median vein, excurved 
behind it ; cell-dot moderate, black, conspicuous ; postmedian from five-sevenths 
costa, sinuous throughout, with a deep inward curve between 5 C® and R^, 
markedly oblique inward from to fold, reaching hind margin little beyond 
middle; traces of a whitish subterminal, following the same course as the 
postmedian ; terminal line black, not interrupted ; fringe whitish at base, then 
* In the type ^ its base appears to have migrated and to arise from SC*. 
