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clothed above and on underside with shorter hairs of same colour ; mid 
and hind legs with long cream coloured (XYI) hairs ; wings of cream 
colour (XYI) above and on underside, fore wing on upper side thickly 
irrorated with apricot yellow scales, especially at costa, on the veins and 
at inner margin ; hind wing above slightly coloured near inner margin 
with warm buff (XY). 
Fore wing at medial space a fascia from upper median till inner 
margin, and somewhat narrower towards costa ; a broad postmedial band 
of same colour from near costa, parallel to outer margin and joining medial 
fascia at vein 2 and extended till inner margin ; this fascia is angled out- 
wards between vein 16 and 2, 3 and 4, 6 and 7, and inwards between 
vein 5 and 6, 2 and 3 ; the scales of these fascia are at some parts entirely 
pale vinaceous-fawn (XL), at other parts tipped with fawn colour (XL), 
and many scales are tipped with army brown (XL) or even black, so that 
the fascia look to the naked eye fawn coloured sprinkled with black. 
Hind wing without any markings ; cilia of ground colour in both 
wings. 
Under side cream colour, tinged with buff -yellow ; in fore wing the 
costa has a sorghum-brown edge for its first half and the fascia are indi- 
cated by a darker shading than the ground colour. 
$. Head, palpi, antennae, teguiae, patagia, thorax, hairs on legs 
apricot-yellow ; anterior \ of abdomen light buff (XY), clothed with long 
apricot-yellow hairs ; posterior and under side covered with light orange- 
yellow (III) hairs ; anal tuft with raw umber (III) hairs. 
Wings as in <7, but without the fasciae ; fore wing with three black 
markings at sub-terminal area (the remains of the postmedial fascia of <7), 
consisting of large black scales dotted over the area and mixed with some 
orange-buff (III) scales ; first mark between vein 6 and 7 ; second mark 
triangular and between vein 3 and 4 ; third mark above and below vein lb ; 
some long orange-buff scales and. hairs on inner margin, mixed with a few 
black scales near last terminal mark (in one wing a few black scales just 
above 16 antimedially). 
Hind wing without any markings ; cilia cream coloured. 
Under side of a cream colour, tinged with buff -yellow (IV) near 
margins in fore wing and inner marginal area of hind wing. 
The palpi in this species are oblique, with the terminal joint porrect, 
longer in the $ than in the 
Exp. type, 21 -5 mill. ; (7 co-types, 23 -7 mill. ; two large (7(7 
(badly worn), 28 *2 mill. 
$ type, 31 mill. ; co-types, 28 *2-34 -3 mill. 
Ten specimens. 
Hab. cT type, Durban (24.2.09, Leigh) ; in coll., Tvl. Mus. ->> 
Co-types, Durban (14.9.07, 12.8.07, Leigh); in coll., Tvl. 
Mus. and my own. 
Also two (7c7 (badly worn) from Estcourt, Natal (Hutchin- 
son) ; in coll., Maritzburg Mus. and my own. 
$ type, Umkomaas (15.1.14, Janse) ; in my own coll. 
Co-types, Durban (26.2.09, 11.1.11, Leigh) 
Pinetown (14.2.10, Leigh); in coll., Tvl. Mus. 
