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without white; costal margin irregularly dark-spotted; cell-spot black, fairly 
large, with a few pale scales in centre; lines dentate, strongest on the veins, 
where their black teeth project into the median area, their reverse sides 
narrowly edged with glaucous whitish; antemedian from one-third costa, 
rather straight to base of M^, then oblique inward to less than one-third hind 
margin ; postmedian from five-sevenths costa, nearly parallel with termen but 
slightly more incurved behind middle; subterminal dentate, very indistinct, 
chiefly defined by a weak dark shade proximally; terminal black dots not 
conspicuous ; fringe similarly variegated, with suggestions of a dark traversing 
line. Hind wing with termen more crenulate; similar to fore wing but with 
the first line wanting, the cell-spot slightly smaller; proximal dark shading 
of subterminal strongest from M^, running rather obliquely to abdominal 
margin near tornus. 
Underside paler, the markings (except antemedian of fore wing) expressed, 
but more weakly than above; fringes almost unicolorous. 
Natal: Karkloof, 25 January 1917. Type in coll. Janse. 
Although the rough scaling, crenulate hind wing, and character of markings 
refer this species clearly to the Boarmia section, its exact affinities are quite 
uncertain; if I am right in making it a rather broad-winged Hemerophila, it 
is the first African species of the section Phthonandria Warr. Its general aspect 
is more Gnophos-Yike. 
38. Gnophos ruhricimixta ab. euryta ab. nov. (bon. sp.?). 
$. Cell-rings larger, fully open. Both wings with the reddish scaling con- 
centrated in a regular, bright, conspicuous bar or narrow band distally to the 
postmedian, the longitudinal arrangement of the scaling not noticeable; fore 
wing in addition with some reddish suffusion in basal area. 
Cape Colony: Willowmore, 5 August 1919 (Brauns). Type in coll. Janse. 
39- Ectropis atelomeres sp. nov. 
(J, 29 mm. Build slender. Face blackish, with a paler line down the centre. 
Palpus short and rather slender (scarcely over i); blackish, with the first 
joint grey. Antenna with the fascicles of cilia rather slender, almost sessile, 
over I. Head and body concolorous with wings, the abdomen with a pair of 
indistinct dark dorsal spots at the end of each segment. Hind tibia not dilated. 
Wings narrower than in delosaria Walk., paler (more approaching spolia- 
taria Walk, but a little greyer, scarcely ochreous-mixed) . Fore wing with 
costa rather straight, termen smooth; cell one-half, SC^’ ^ coincident, free; 
fovea wanting ; moderate blackish-fuscous irroration ; costal edge with blackish 
dots or minute strigulae; lines blackish fuscous; antemedian from nearly one- 
third costa to about one-fourth hind margin, strongly excurved, at fold slightly 
sinuate inward, at costa a little thickened, on M crossed by a blackish dash, 
from SM^ to hind margin forming a blackish comma, with its head on the 
vein, its convexity outward; a small oval discal ring beyond middle, the 
median shade only distinct from this to costa and in a hind-marginal spot; 
postmedian line passing near the cell-mark and slightly incurved in its posterior 
half, formed of short dashes on the veins, and in the posterior half fine con- 
necting lunules, that between and SM^ the deepest; subterminal line fine 
and ill-defined, with traces of the blackish markings which characterize delo- 
saria and other allies, but reduced in size; terminal interneural dots small; 
fringe with dark spots opposite the veins. Hind wing with crenulation of 
termen slight; costal area rather paler; a strong median shade from cell-fold 
to abdominal margin ; a discal ring as in fore wing ; postmedian from abdominal 
