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11. a. Fore wing with orange-red scales at end of cell 12. 
b. Fore wing without orange-red scales at end of cell ; 
wings cartridge-buff (XXX) flavicincta. 
12. a. Ground colour of fore wing white or yellowish-white. 13. 
b. Fore wing yellow or orange-yellow 14. 
13. a. Fore wing with red marks near tornus only Jiaemodetes. 
b. Fore wing with red marks near apex and tornus. . . rufopunctata. 
14. a. Fore wing light cadmium (IV) ; hind wing deep 
chrome (III) iridescens. 
b. Fore wing and hind wing apricot-yellow (IY) ; fore 
wing with two small sub-terminal patches of dark 
scales . crocata. 
c. Fore wing baryta-yellow 15. 
15. a. Some sub-terminal dark scales in fore wing 16. 
b. Fore wing without dark sub-terminal scales straminicolor. 
16. a. The dark scales are well defined and found between 
all the veins of the fore wing ; median fascia con- 
sisting of black scales only. . nigripuncta. 
b. The dark scales are ill-defined and a few only in each 
patch ; median fascia made of red scales, mixed 
with a few black scales stellata. 
Species in South Africa : — 
Euproctis terminalis, Wlk., IV, p. 794 (1855). 
Hmpsn., Ann. S.A. Mus., p. 407 (1905). 
Hab. Gape Colony. 
In this species the palpi have the second joint only 2 times as long 
as the first joint and the process is more slender and a little longer than 
in E. fasciata. 
Euproctis punctifera, Wlk., IY, p. 792 (1855). 
Hypogymna melanura , Wllgrn., Wien. Ent. Mon., IY, p. 163 (1860). 
Laupera gaudens. Wlk., XXXII, p. 357 (1865). 
Hmpsn., Ann. S.A. Mus., p. 407 (1905). 
Hab. Durban (XII, I, Leigh). 
Sarnia (I, Janse). 
Umkomaas (I, Janse). 
Duff’s Hoad, Xatal (XII). 
Tongaat (Natal). 
In this species the fore wing has 11 from § ; the hind wing has the 
stalk of 3 and 4 longer, as much as J ; in the palpi the second joint is 
only 2 times first joint ; the process of the fore legs is a little thicker. 
Euproctis iridescens, nov. spec. (pi. Ill, fig. 18 ; pi. VII, fig. 6). 
cJ. Head and thorax above and ground colour of fore wing light 
cadmium (IY) ; hairs of frons, antennae, palpi, thorax on under side, 
abdomen, hind wing, and both wings on under side deep chrome (III) ; 
