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abdomen above crimson, beneath yellowish, but largely (variably according 
to the individual) overlaid with broad blackish belts. Legs pale yellowish, 
the anterior and middle pairs somewhat marked with crimson on inner side; 
hind leg short and weak, somewhat hairy, tarsus greatly abbreviated. 
Wings narrow, though not so extreme as in pericalles Prout {Ann. Trans. 
Mus. III. 201, t. 12, f. 32). Fore wing with SC^ from end of areole, shortly 
stalked; light ochre-yellow, nearly as in muricata Hufn. from Europe, or 
scarcely paler, markings vinaceous as in that species ; costal margin vinaceous 
to near apex, overlaid, to beyond middle, with blackish costal and subcostal 
streaks, producing to the naked eye the effect of a broad purple streak ; base 
similarly suffused ; antemedian line at about one-third, oblique outward from 
hind margin to cell, bent just before losing itself in the distal streak; median 
rather variable in position, being in the paratype nearer to the antemedian, 
slightly angulated outward on M, slightly incurved behind ; postmedian from 
three-fourths costa to two-thirds hind margin, dentate outward at F} and 
very slightly at and thinnest in middle of wing; a subterminal band, 
with proximal edge parallel to postmedian, distal edge more irregular, reaching 
termen at tornus; no terminal line; fringe concolorous. Hind wing rather 
prominent about straight before and behind the prominence; slightly 
paler than fore wing, at least anteriorly; fine median and postmedian lines 
discernible, but only strong posteriorly; subterminal band well developed, 
rather narrower at tornus; some slight vinaceous irroration in terminal area. 
Underside with the markings more smoky, on hind wing better developed, 
the proximal half (or more) of fore wing with strong smoky suffusion. 
Rhodesia: Umvuma (A. J. T. Janse), 21 December 1917, type in coll. 
Janse; 23 December 1917, paratype in coll. L. B. Prout. 
17. Ptychopoda hasicostalis ab. particolor ab. nov. (PI. I, fig. 24). 
Fore wing with the median area almost entirely darkened with dense dark 
reddish-grey irroration, leaving slight patches of the ground-colour at costal 
and hind margins, especially posteriorly. Hind wing with basal area as well 
as the median dark-irrorated. 
West Pondoland: Port St John, October 1915 (H. H, Swinney). Type in 
coll. Transvaal Museum. 
Typical hasicostalis Warr. {Nov. Zool. vii. 93) is common in the same 
locality and reaches northward to the Transvaal. 
- 18. Ptychopoda controversata sp. nov. 
A, 28 mm. Face and palpus black. Tongue long. Vertex and antennal 
shaft pinkish white; cilia about i. Collar blackish. Thorax and abdomen 
concolorous with wings, the abdomen with small and weak dorsal spots. 
Hind tibia not quite as long as femur, moderately dilated, with hair-pencil; 
tarsus abbreviated (about |^), somewhat thickened proximally, tapering. 
Fore wing moderately elongate, cell well over pale fleshy grey with 
reddish ochreous costal margin (coloration of incarnaria ab. ruficostata Zell., 
but with scattered black irroration) ; antemedian line at about one-third, grey, 
thick and deeply excurved anteriorly, then slender, straightish and obsolescent ; 
median shade weak, excurved just beyond the small black cell-dot, incurved 
posteriorly; postmedian line from beyond two-thirds costa to four-fifths hind 
margin, rather strong, especially on the veins, angled outward at C and R?-, 
incurved between, sinuate inward between the radials and between and 
SM^\ grey shading between postmedian and subterminal as in the eburnata 
group, but feeble; subterminal not defined distally, the wing remaining pale 
