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this dark shading is more continuous); a slight dark shade on termen from 
SC^ to R^; a fine black terminal line, thickened into spots between the veins; 
fringe ochreous, irregularly chequered with blackish. 
Hind wing whitish, tinged with ochreous-grey, slightly darkened on the 
veins and at termen. Slight indications of white postmedial and subterminal 
lines on posterior third of wing, defined by slight dark marks on abdominal 
margin; fringe ochreous-white. 
Underside of both wings ochreous-white, sparsely irrorated with fuscous 
(the fore wing more strongly irrorated behind costa, on termen and on medial 
area) ; costa of fore wing ochreous with some black irroration ; fringes ochreous- 
white. 
Pretoria, i December 1911 (Capt. Paget), type; North Pretoria, 14 February 
1917 (C. J. Swierstra), one <?. Also two paratypes, in coll. Joicey, presented 
by the Transvaal Museum, Pretoria, 16 December 1912 (C. J. Swierstra), 
Pretoria North, 19 December 1916 (C. J. Swierstra). A in coll. Joicey, from 
Zomba, Nyassaland, April 1920 (H. Barlow), almost certainly belonging to 
this species, is much greyer, without the ochreous shades; not improbably a 
subspecies. 
Sub-family Ophiderinae (= Noctuinae, Hmpsn.) 
2. 
Egnasia lioperas sp. nov. (PI. I, fig. 10). 
$,32 mm. Palpus, antenna, thorax and abdomen above pale brownish- 
ochreous, the palpus irrorated with black and white, abdomen with the seg- 
ments tipped with whitish; head, pectus, legs and abdomen beneath white, 
the tibiae and tarsi tinged with pale ochreous. 
Fore wing pale, glossy, brownish-ochreous, the costa irrorated with 
blackish, the termen broadly tinged with reddish brown. A slight pale lunule 
on the discocellulars ; an indistinct postmedial line dividing the brownish i i 
terminal shade from the ochreous ground-colour ; from costa beyond two- 
thirds, keeping nearly parallel with termen but somewhat excurved from costa 
to Afi, thence slightly undulate; other lines obsolete; fringe violet- white, 
marked with blackish at middle and tip. 
Hind wing a shade paler and greyer than fore wing, but repeating the 
same scheme of colouring and design; discal spot rounder, almost obsolete, 
placed on a slight grey medial shade ; postmedial line very slight and fine, 
nearly following the curve of the termen, but a little undulate; fringe as on 
fore wing. 
Fore wing beneath pale greyish- ochreous with the costa to postmedial line 
violet-white, the hind margin broadly whiter, stigmata white outlined with 
reddish-brown, the orbicular an oblique oval, the reniform lunulate, with its 
distal edge slightly angled inward at middle; a slight brown medial line, out- 
wardly oblique from near middle of costa and excurved round reniform ; post 
medial line as above but more sharply defined, reddish-brown, with a broad, 
red-brown distal shade on anterior half; fringe as above. Hind wing pale' 
greyish-ochreous, with the costa and termen (except behind M^) violet-white 
irrorated with fuscous; the abdominal margin behind fold white. Repeats the 
pattern of fore wing, with the exception of the orbicular; the discal lunule 
cut at the middle, with the lower lobe larger than on fore wing; postmedial 
line minutely dentate, angled out behind R^. 
Pretoria, 26 February 1919 (C. J. Swierstra), one $. 
One worn $ in coll. British Museum (also from Pretoria), placed in the 
series of E. vicaria Wlkr. appears to belong to this species, which is at once 
distinguishable from vicaria by the more nearly evenly curved distal margin 
