Annals of the Transvaal Museum 
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Can this be the hitherto unknown ^ of nigrapex, in spite of the much 
narrower wings, different coloration and quite differently shaped antemedian 
line? 
34. Axiodes inter scripta sp. nov. 
d', 30 mm. Head, body and wings grey, formed of an intricate admixture, 
in varying proportions, of browner, whiter and more blackish scales. The 
thorax above darkest, the abdomen at the incisions and the whole body be- 
neath paler and more brownish. 
Fore wing broader than in most of the genus; the white irroration rather 
strong, especially from base to near middle and again in an obliquely bounded 
band from apex distally to the postmedian; the dark scales mostly arranged 
transversely, tending — especially in the median area — to suggest a number of 
very fine, interrupted transverse lines; the true lines blacker, but fine and not 
very conspicuous, except at M, DC^ and 5 M^, where they are slightly thickened 
and the postmedian further accentuated by whitish edging distally; ante- 
median acutely angled outward on M, then oblique inward but with a slight 
tooth outward at fold and an acute one at 5 M^; postmedian oblique inward 
from three-fourths costa, slightly thickened at first, incurved at base of 
and Ml, then nearly vertical to hind margin, lunulate-dentate ; distal area 
beyond the pale band darker; terminal line blackish; fringe very narrowly 
mixed with whitish at base. Hind wing more brownish, with a broad but very 
ill-defined darker shade distally. 
Fore wing beneath with costal edge pale with dark dots and strigulae, the 
rest of the wing nearly as hind wing above ; hind wing rather paler than above, 
. especially proximally, the dark irroration scattered, but more noticeable. 
Cape Colony: Willowmore, September 1918 (Brauns). Type in coll, Janse. 
35. Axiodes trachyacta sp. nov. 
S, 35 mm. Head and body pale ochreous grey, the head and the thorax 
above mixed with chocolate. 
Fore wing narrow, with termen obliquely curved, anteriorly and posteriorly 
smooth, at K^-M^ weakly crenulate, the strongest tooth at SC^ running 
to apex, SC^ to termen over i mm. from apex; pale ochreous grey, heavily 
shaded — except at base of costa and especially in the whole distal area — with 
pale reddish; the black-grey irrorations mostly striguliform or vermiform, in 
places sufficiently in alignment to suggest extremely fine and somewhat in- 
terrupted transverse lines; the true lines black; antemedian from costa at 
3 mm. ; very deeply excurved in anterior half, incurved at fold, weak pos- 
teriorly; postmedian from costa 2 mm. from apex to hind margin at scarcely 
two-thirds, irregularly dentate, the teeth inward being on the veins and 
generally more acute than the outward ones, those on R^, M^, and sub- 
median fold more or less deep (the three last-named placed in a shallow bay), 
the others more or less slight. Hind wing proximally and anteriorly of the 
-paler ground-colour, distally and posteriorly reddish shaded, most strongly 
so near tornus; a fine, indistinct, irregular, distally pale-edged postmedian 
line traceable from hind margin about 2 mm. from tornus, fading out before 
reaching R^. 
Both wings beneath predominantly pale; fore wing with costa weakly 
dark-spotted, the rest, as far as the postmedian line, with light greyish gloss ; 
the lines indicated, especially the postmedian, which is accompanied by a 
slight dark shade proximally; both wings with the distal area slightly paler 
than the rest. 
Cape Colony: Willowmore, October 1915 (Brauns). Type in coll. Janse. 
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