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brown-grey, formed of a mixture of white, light-brown (with a very slight 
olivaceous tinge) and a very few black scales, the scaling thinner than in 
normal Boavmia, but somewhat rough, the prominent tips of the white scales 
shiny, imparting a slight iridescence; cell-spot rather large, blackish, but 
with its greater part (central and anterior) overlaid with raised blue-white 
scales, thus recalling that of Ascotis selenavia Schiff.; lines light-brown, feeble, 
but thickened and black-mixed costally, the median otherwise virtually obso- 
lete, the others lunulate-dentate, black-marked on the veins, the postmedian 
markedly incurved between and SM^\ some dark dashes on the veins 
distally; subterminal white line thick (especially in the paratype), strongly 
but rather irregularly lunulate-dentate; termen with short black interneural 
dashes; fringe narrowly pale at base, at tips and opposite the veins, otherwise 
dark-clouded. Hind wing with termen more noticeably crenulate; cell-spot 
and the markings beyond nearly as on fore wing, some stronger dark shading 
at abdominal margin proximally to the subterminal. 
Underside pale, with strong black cell-spots and (on the fore wing) sub- 
apical costal spot, closely as in Cleora proximaria Walk, or some aberrations 
of Boarmia cataimena Prout; the type in addition shows traces of the post- 
median line, with distinct dark costal spots marking its origin, but these are 
wanting in the other specimen. 
Nelspruit, November 1917 (H. G. Breijer). Type in coll. Transvaal Museum, 
Griffin M., January 1915 (H. G. Breijer), a worn specimen, evidently closely 
agreeing, in coll. L. B. Prout. 
43. Boarmia gladstonei sp. nov. (PI. I, fig. 19). 
d', 23 mm. Face rather flat; whitish brown. Palpus little over i, with 
long-projecting hair-scales beneath, terminal joint quite small, concealed; 
whitish- brown. Tongue well developed. Vertex white, with a few brown 
scales. Antenna pectinate nearly to tip, the branches long (perhaps 8 or more), 
shortening rather regularly. Thorax above brown, somewhat variegated, some- 
what irrorated, the patagia whiter, in the middle with a fuscous transverse 
bar. Abdomen above brown-whitish, with brown belts (slightly interrupted 
by white dorsal ridge), behind which stand paired l^lackish spots. Body 
beneath whitish, sparsely and irregularly dark-speckled. Fore leg largely in- 
fuscated; middle and hind legs pale, with weak dark spots; hind tibia not 
dilated. 
Fore wing narrow, termen strongly oblique, very gently curved, smooth 
in its posterior half, very faintly waved anteriorly; fovea not developed; 
5C^’ 2 coincident, free; variegated whitish and light-brown, sparsely and ir- 
regularly irrorated with fuscous; costal margin dotted with fuscous; cell-dot 
indistinct, rather elongate; markings dark fuscous; an ill-defined spot behind 
cell close to base; lines more oblique than termen; antemedian from one-fifth 
hind margin, fine and extremely oblique to near M, incurved and thickened 
on crossing M, running outward just inside cell to near origin of then 
obsolescent, reappearing as a distinct dash at apex of cell; median line brown, 
close to antemedian, only differentiable posteriorly; postmedian from two- 
fifths hind margin to about 3 mm. from termen, somewhat thickened be- 
tween and R^, very slightly angled outward at R"^, somewhat thickened 
again at R^\ an interrupted brown line duplicating the postmedian distally; 
subterminal white, irregularly lunulate dentate, accompanied proximally by 
some fuscescent spots in anterior half and near hind margin, distally by some 
weak fuscescent shading ; termen with rather strong black interneural lunules, 
those between the radials (especially the anterior) more triangular; fringe 
