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whitish, waved inwards at cell and between lower median and vein 16 ; 
medial line whitish, broad near costa, fainter beyond upper median, and 
parallel to antimedial, except at median fold, where it is more waved 
mwards ; reniform fuscous, ringed with black ; costa between medial and 
postmedial with many whitish-yellow scales ; postmedial whitish-yellow, 
edged on outer side with mahogany-red, waved outwardly between vein 3 
and 11, then a little inwardly at 2 ; in the whitish patch the veins are 
streaked with mahogany-red beyond postmedial line ; a whitish-yellow 
streak from both ends of the patch towards costa and inner margin and 
parallel to postmedial line ; sub-terminal line distinct, whitish-yellow, 
erect, and much waved inwardly at vein 2-3, 5, 7-8, and outwardly at 
veins 3-4, and 6 (in co-type, which is a little greasy, this line is less dis- 
tinct) ; terminal line waved outwards at the veins, so as to leave fuscous 
lunules between the veins ; cilia with a basal fawn-coloured (XL) line, 
checkered with fuscous and whitish. 
Hind wing : ground colour sepia (XXIX), thickly irr orated with 
fuscous scales and covered on inner marginal area with long whitish hairs ; 
an elongate whitish patch beyond cell, from vein 6 to a little beyond 
vein 3 ; this patch is sub -elliptical and indented on outer side at vein 5 ; 
cilia fuscous at first J, then fawn and whitish mixed. 
Under side of both wings fuscous, with the patches clearly defined 
and o± a pure white colour; fore wing with costa broadly scaled with 
maize-yellow (IV) ; basal area with white scales and hairs ; hind wing 
with the inner marginal J from costa to beyond tornus with white scales 
and hairs ; a fuscous reniform at end of cell ; outer marginal J with some 
few white scales, giving it a white irroration ; cilia of both wings as on 
upper side, except that they have a thin basal whitish line. 
Exp. 27 -4 mill. 
Hab. Que-que, Rhodesia (Miss Y. D. Crowder). 
One $ type in coll., Tvl. Mus. 
One A co-type in coll., Janse. 
This species is closely allied to 0. melanoleuca, Hmpsn., from which 
it differs in the mahogany -red irroration, the distinctness of the lines in 
the fore wing (not mentioned at all by Hampson), and the hind wing being 
fuscous and not black. It may be, of course, that Hampson’s specimen 
was very greasy, and that therefore the hind wings appeared black, as is 
the case with the hind wing of my co-type, and that the lines of the fore 
wings were for that reason also invisible, which certainly have a tendency 
to disappear with greasiness, but I hardly think that an observer like 
Hampson would have been thus misled. 
My species also comes close to Hampson’s A. achrodisa, from Katanga 
(Congo), but from this species it differs in the white patch of the hind 
wings. 
Species auctorum : — 
Ornithopsyche melanoleuca. 
Aroa melanoleuca, Hmpsn., Ann. S.A. Mus., p. 408 (1905). 
I have no doubt that this species has to come in the genus 
Ornithopsyche . 
