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stalked, slightly before middle of DC, widely separate. Hind wing 
rather small, apex moderately rounded, termen well rounded, tornus moderate; 
frenulum developed; cell over one-half, DC markedly oblique, C anastomosing 
with SC for a considerable distance from base to near end of cell, SC^-R^ 
very long-stalked to coincident, from scarcely before middle of DC, 
separate. 
Type of the genus: Chionopova tarachodes, sp. nov. 
Affinities somewhat doubtful. The build suggests the Chesias group, but 
the fore tibia is without claw and the abdominal region of the hind wing 
without special modification. 
32. Chionopora tarachodes sp. nov. (PI. I, fig. 5). 
d', 21-24 mm. Head and thorax predominantly white. (Abdomen dis- 
coloured by grease in all the examples.) 
Fore wing white, with dull dark-green markings; some dots near base, 
tending to form a biangulate line; a narrow, irregular, very oblique ante- 
median band before one-third, attenuated at hind margin ; a slight costal mark 
opposite the distal extremity of this band ; a less narrow, irregular postmedian 
band from beyond middle of hind margin, rather more oblique than termen, 
suddenly widening (chiefly on its proximal side) after crossing M and the base 
of R^, enclosing a white cell-spot, but ceasing in its proximal part on reaching 
SC, in its distal at SC®; one or two very vague lines beyond, the proximal 
one in places accentuated by small vein-dots and anteriorly forming a distinct 
curve round the extremity of the postmedian band, reaching costa at three- 
fourths; two rows of submarginal cloudy spots, the proximal very vague, 
becoming confluent with the distal about ; terminal line very fine, bearing 
minute black dots at the veins. Hind wing mostly occupied by shadowy 
greenish markings, leaving some white near base, a sinuous white band beyond 
middle, bisected by a line or row of dots, and narrow, ill-defined white areas 
proximally and distally to the distal submarginal spots; terminal line as on 
fore wing. 
Underside white, with faint indications of the principal markings. 
Portuguese East Africa: Catembe, near Lorenzo Marquez, January 1916 
(Habenicht), Type in coll. Transvaal Museum. Paratypes in coll. L. B. Prout. 
The markings slightly recall those of the Indian Pseudeuchlora kafebera 
Swinli. 
Sub-family Geometrinae 
1 33. Drepanogynis vara sp. nov. 
S, 27-29 mm. General coloration and facies of devia Prout [Ann. Transv. 
Mus. III. 210, t. 12, f. 12), but somewhat brighter; structure the same. Readily 
distinguishable as follows: 
Fore wing with the termen more noticeably bent at R^; antemedian line 
strong, right-angled in cell; postmedian forming a strong lobe outward at 
R^-M^ (in the paratype a little more pointed at its extremity — behind R ^ — 
than in the type; some grey shades just outside the postmedian, becoming 
strong between and hind margin; a dark subapical dash nearly as in 
nigrapex Prout [tom. cit. p. 21 1, f. i) but accompanied by terminal clouding 
on R^. Ftind wing with postmedian line rather better expressed than in devia. 
Underside nearly as in devia, costal margin of fore wing more brightly 
ochreous, especially towards apex. 
Natal: Karkloof (A. J. T. Janse), 27 January 1917, type in coll. Janse; 
28 January 1917, paratype in coll. L. B. Prout. 
