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position of median line; an irregular band of black spots placed about 2 mm. 
from termen, distally edged with whitish and proximally more broadly with 
red, almost obsolete between the radials except for some red proximal irrora- 
tion; distal area with some very slight red irroration; termen with distinct 
black interneural dots or dashes. Hind wing with SC^ arising at least as far 
from end of cell as ; similar to fore wing, the black spots of the postmedian 
rather weaker, in the middle of the wing rather farther from termen. 
Underside slightly paler, unless at costal margin of fore wing; unmarked 
except for the cell-dots and terminal dots; the latter less sharp than above, 
slightly connected by a dark grey line. 
Port Elizabeth, 15 November 1916 (Fitz Simons). Type in coll. Janse. 
Very distinct from any hitherto known African species, strongly suggestive 
of the Australian Cashia lithodova Meyr. This is the first African species re- 
corded under Cahera (= Deilinia), but strigata Warr. and pseudognophos Prout 
{Ann. S. Afr. Mus. xvii. 74) should be placed here according to Snellen’s 
differentiation {Tijd. Ent. XLiii. 258) and it now seems to me not unlikely 
that my Gyalomia is only a superficial modification of the same. 
B. NOCTUIDAE. By A. E. Prout 
Sub-family Erastrianae 
Pagetia gen. nov. 
Proboscis aborted, slender; palpus obliquely porrect, more than i| dia- 
meter of eye, the second joint rather thickly scaled above, the third very 
short ; frons smooth ; antenna of A ciliate ; thorax clothed almost entirely with 
scales; tibiae moderately hairy; abdomen with small crest on first basal seg- 
ment. Fore wing with the apex rounded, the termen evenly curved, non- 
crenulate, SC^, SC^, SC^ and SC® stalked, SC® arising before SC^. Hind wing 
rather narrow, rounded, non-crenulate; SC^ and R^, and shortly stalked ; 
R^ nearly fully developed, from well behind middle of discocellulars. Nearest 
to Eublemmistis Hmpsn. by the key in Cat. Lep. Phal. vol. x., but superficially 
more resembles the genus Euhlemma, from which, however, it is separated by 
the neuration and the aborted proboscis as well as by some minor characters. 
I. Pagetia larentiodes sp. nov. (PI. I, fig. 26). 
A, 17-20 mm. Head, thorax above, palpus and antennal shaft ochreous- 
brown; abdomen above cinereous; pectus, legs and abdomen beneath whitish, 
the fore tibia spotted with ochreous, the fore and mid tarsi broadly banded 
with fuscous. 
Fore wing whitish, tinged with ochreous and more or less irr orated with 
fuscous, especially at base and on the medial band; the lines blackish. Sub- 
basal line bent out behind costa and angled in on M and to hind margin; 
a broad ochreous shade between subbasal and antemedial lines; antemedial 
I line waved and slightly oblique, strongly angled outward on 5 C and M and 
to hind margin and inward on SM^) a black discal spot surrounded by a black 
ring; medial band ochreous, irrorated with fuscous; postmedial line waved, 
dentate on the veins, outwardly oblique from costa to R®, inwardly oblique 
to fold, strongly angled outward on SM^ and bent in to hind margin near 
tornus; an ochreous patch on and behind costa between postmedial and sub- 
terminal lines; subterminal line whitish, defined by blackish teeth at C and 
on SC® and by slighter fuscous shading between R^ and (in some specimens 
