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Larger and rather paler than malescripta Warr., postmedian better de- 
veloped, tornal blotch beneath less strong. 
Sub-family Larentiinae 
24. Ortholitha petrogenes sp. nov. (PI. I, fig. 17). 
33 mm. Nearly related to O. afvicana Warr. {Ann. S. Afr. Mus. x. 22). 
Antenna in both species lamellate, but in petrogenes nearly twice as deeply, 
the projections being as long as the diameter of the shaft. Body and fore wing 
above entirely without the brown shades, remaining nearly uniform slate-grey, 
as in light forms of Entephria flavicinctata Hb., but with the yellowish scaling 
very much paler and duller and more diffused; median band narrower than 
in afvicana, not well defined; subterminal line broken up into interneural 
white spots; fringe chequered (as also in all the afvicana I have seen) but 
with the thick dark line which in afvicana connects the dark spots and which 
alone is mentioned by Warren, almost entirely wanting. Hind wing with DC 
very oblique posteriorly, but arising before middle. Hind wing and under- 
side less brownish tinged than in afvicana, the underside recalling that of 
E. flavicinctata, its whitish hind wing showing an ill-defined greyish sub- 
terminal band. 
Cape Town, May 1912 (Lord Gladstone). Type in coll. Transvaal Museum. 
25. Coenotephria respondens sp. nov. (PI. I, fig. 20). 
A, ?, 22-23 mm- Head and palpus light ochreous brown; palpus about if, 
heavily scaled beneath, the third joint moderate, deflexed, partly concealed. 
Antennal shaft light ochreous brown, each proximal joint with a dark spot; 
ciliation in A slightly over i . Thorax light brown, dorsally with chocolate and 
blackish admixture. Fore leg blackish on upper and inner side. 
Wings rather elongate. Fore wing with the wall between the areoles slender; 
just separate or just stalked; pale greenish, in the type almost entirely 
overlaid with ochreous-brown scales, in the $ allotype much less overlaid; 
markings chocolate, varying in depth; basal patch sinuous-edged (gently in- 
curved in middle), bounded by a slight whitish line; median band moderate, 
almost solid, bounded by slight whitish lines, the proximal straightish, the 
distal more nearly parallel with termen than in pvasinavia Warr., slightly 
dentate in its anterior part, weakly incurved between the radials, the suc- 
ceeding lobe not very strong, the posterior part forming a shallow sinus inward 
and very feebly lunulate; cell-spot not strong, sometimes set in a small 
ochreous-brown patch on DC] faint traces of one or two lines beyond and 
parallel with the postmedian ; subterminal weak and slender, lunulate-dentate ; 
an oblique pale streak from apex, followed posteriorly by some ill-defined 
dark shading, at least as far as R^] some still weaker proximal dark shading 
to the subterminal posteriorly; terminal dark line only slightly interrupted; 
fringe spotted, mostly pale at base (defective in both examples). Hind wing 
whitish, with some weak brown irroration, which becomes slightly stronger 
distally; terminal line as on fore wing. 
Fore wing beneath rather paler than above, the markings shadowy; hind 
wing darker than above, with coarse irroration, a cell-spot present and a pale 
band distally to the postmedian. 
Cape Town, March 1912 (Lord Gladstone). Type A in coll. Transvaal 
Museum ; allotype $ in coll. L. B. Front. ; 
Differs from pvasinavia Warr. {Nov. Zool. viii. 13) in the longer wings 
(especially hind wing), paler hind wing, with more strongly biangulate DC, 1 
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