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brown, mixed with glaucous whitish, especially opposite the veins and in a 
line beyond the middle. Hind wing narrow, termen crenulate from SC^ (where 
it is rather prominent) to and more feebly so posteriorly; whiter than 
fore wing, especially in cell and costal area; cell-dot dark grey, not minute; 
a median brown shade at abdominal margin only; postmedian line distinct 
from abdominal margin to radial fold, double as on fore wing; distal area 
nearly as on fore wing, but with the markings obsolescent apically. 
Fore wing beneath paler, with stronger costal strigulae; irregular grey 
mottlings in cell and distally; a distinct grey cell-spot; indications of the 
postmedian line of upperside behind it; a curved postdiscal line of minute 
dots from to the first one enlarged into a spot ; subterminal line and its 
proximal spots developed anteriorly only; terminal line and fringe more 
weakly marked than above. Hind wing beneath whitish, with some coarse 
irroration; a rather thick but ill-defined antemedian line; a strong blackish 
cell-dot; a curved, slightly interrupted, in places thickened postmedian line just 
beyond it; the proximal spots of the subterminal strong almost throughout. 
Cape Town, April 1912 (Lord Gladstone). Type in coll. Transvaal Museum. 
Perhaps referable to Hemevophila, which seems scarcely tenable as a genus. 
The underside rather recalls that of Pachypalpia subalbata Warr. [Nov. Zool. 
VII. 98). 
44. Peridela lechriospilota sp. nov. 
cJ, 22 mm. Face nearly smooth. Palpus about i J, with 2nd joint heavily 
scaled. Antennal pectinations 3 or 4, decreasing in length rather gradually 
distally, the last few joints not pectinate. Hind tibia not dilated. Head and 
body concolorous with wings. 
Fore wing with SO-' ^ coincident, anastomosing with C and connected with 
fovea wanting; light cream-buff, with irregular dark irroration; costal 
margin more strongly dotted; markings brown, irrorated with black; ante- 
median line before one-third, thick at costa, then interrupted outward and 
weaker, thickened into an inwardly oblique band (approaching a width of 
I mm.) from M to hind margin; cell-dot quite small, but slightly longer than 
broad; median line indicated by a midcostal spot; postmedian from nearly 
three-fourths costa, oblique inward at first, very weak from SC® to R^, thence 
oblique inward to fold and accompanied distally by an irregular band, which 
is nearly 1*5 mm. wide at first but narrows behind M^, finally about vertical 
(slightly excurved) to hind margin at nearly two-thirds, the accompanying 
band tapering; a terminal blotch between the radials (but not reaching i?^), 
almost confluent posteriorly with the anterior edge of the postmedian band; 
a smaller and weaker blotch between the medians ; much slighter dark shading 
indicates the distal boundary of the scarcely traceable pale subterminal line; 
termen with dark interneural dots ; fringe dark-marked (defective) . Hind wing 
with termen only very weakly projecting at R^, very slightly indented before 
and behind the projection; C closely approximated to SC for a considerable 
distance ; colour of fore wing ; markings almost obsolete, the beginnings of two 
or three fine dark lines showing at abdominal margin ; termen with dark inter- 
neural dots. 
Fore wing beneath with the markings showing through, more suffused. 
Natal: Umkomaas, 25 December 1914. Type in coll. Janse. 
I am not satisfied as to the generic position of this very distinct species; 
the forward position of the veins which I have called SC^ and SC^ suggests 
that the former may really be SC^ (arising out of SC^ and anastomosing), in 
which case SC^> ^ would be coincident. 
