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Annals of the Transvaal Museum 
45. Macaria dolicho stigma sp. nov. 
S, 26 mm. Face with small projecting cone of scales; brown. Palpus fully 
3rd joint distinct, though short; brown, pale-mixed at base. Antenna 
slightly dentate, with cilia somewhat over i. Crown darkened, only narrowly 
pale between antennae. Thorax and abdomen grey, paler beneath. Tibiae ' 
and tarsi infuscated; hind tibia not dilated. 
Fore wing with fovea not strong; SC^’ ^ coincident, free; white, with some 
fuscous irroration; costal edge with some dark dots; base slightly clouded; 
lines dark fuscous; antemedian from beyond one-fourth costa, bent in cell, 
oblique inward to one-fourth hind margin, slightly sinuate inward behind 
cell; cell-mark black, elongate, almost as in semitecta Walk.; median shade 
moderately developed, not thick, placed just beyond cell-mark, very faintly 
curved outward anteriorly and inward posteriorly ; postmedian from two-thirds 
costa, somewhat oblique outward, bent or curved before R^, then straightish, 
slightly more oblique than termen, to five-eighths hind margin; its anterior 
extremity weak or interrupted, its posterior somewhat thickened; irregular 
cloudings in distal area, leaving free a pale patch between apex and and j \ 
a slighter pale spot behind R^; a still darker, but ill-defined, narrow shade j i 
traversing this area, anteriorly near the postmedian line, but posteriorly j 
running to tornus; an elongate dark mark from postmedian line across this j 
narrow shade between R^ and M^; terminal line not very strong, thickened ^ : 
into stronger dark dots or dashes between the veins; fringe whitish, purest : | 
at base, vaguely intersected and opposite the veins less vaguely spotted with ' 
grey. Hind wing with the bend at R^ and the sinuosity before R^ only very 
slight ; similar to fore wing but with the first line obsolete, cell-mark less long, 
median shade rather stronger, straight, continuing the postmedian of fore wing, 
post median more gently curved anteriorly. 
Underside without antemedian line, the median of fore wing and the 
longitudinal marks between R^ and less strong, the distal area with the J 
transverse bands (from costa against postmedian to tornus) rather broad and 
well developed, the pale patches near the termen rather conspicuous on both ; 
wings, cut by dark vein-streaks; fringes more sharply spotted than above. ’ j 
Pretoria, 28 February 1916. Type in coll. Janse. | 
A $ from the same locality, 8 April 1910, probably belongs here in spite 1 
of its considerably larger size (32 mm.) and more uniformly darkened distal • i 
area. It might conceivably, however, be a form of grisescens Prout. The ^ :■ 
of the new species differs from grisescens, as well as from johnstoni Butl. and ; 
semitecta Walk., in the more projecting antennal joints. These four species, ; 
together with orthostates Prout {Nov. Zool. xxii. 349) and perhaps a few others, 
seem to form a group intergrading between Macaria and Discalma — the latter , 
probably a superfluous genus. | 
46. Macaria costicommata sp. nov. ^ | 
21 mm. Face grey, strongly overlaid with ochreous brown. Palpus ! 
rather short; ist joint grey, 2nd coloured like face. Vertex and base of an- I 
tennal shaft grey with blackish dots; ciliation fully i. Thorax violet-grey, j j 
beneath whiter. Abdomen more ochreous, dorsally with dark irroration, which j 
on the first few segments condenses into weak paired spots. Fore and middle i 
legs ochreous brown, on outer side pale grey ; hind leg predominantly pale grey, . : 
on inner side irrorated with ochreous brown; hind tibia dilated. ■ | 
Fore wing with termen moderately oblique, nearly smooth, with a very ; I 
slight curve or bend (change of direction) in middle; subcostals somewhat | j 
crowded, 5C^’ ^ apparently coincident and free; violet-grey (with the lens ||; j 
