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-Annals of the Transvaal Museum. 
But for the differences in wing-shape, I should have been inclined to* 
regard this as a form of devocata. The Transvaal form of the last-named 
has the costal margin red, not fuscous, but it is widened and markedly 
underlined with pale yellow, the fringe also bright red, the ground-colour 
more vivid green than in typical devocata and m despoliata, the abdomen 
dorsally paler, with the crests red. 
Heterorachis disconofata, n.|sp. (PL XXV, Fig. 6). 
29-30 mm. Face and palpus red. Vertex rather narrowly white 
occiput green. Antennal shaft whitish, pectinations not quite as long as 
in devocata. Forecoxa, femur, and tibia bright red above and on inner 
side, middle femur and tibia similarly but not quite so deeply coloured, 
hindleg whitish. Abdomen rather narrowly green dorsally, tip, sides, and 
venter white ; crests extremely minute, green, scarcely appreciable. 
Forewing with apex pointed, termen rather straight, moderately oblique, 
tornus rather pronounced ; SC 1 anastomosing rather strongly with C, 
SC 2 - 5 long-stalked from well before R 1 , R 2 from very near R 1 (more 
extreme than on hindwing), M 1 well separate; rather duller, bluer (or 
greyer) green than devocata , the colour formed of coarser and slightly less 
dense green irroration on whitish -green ground ; costal edge very narrowly 
ochreous- whitish ; very faint indications of a cell-spot at origin of R 2 ; 
fringe concolorous or very little paler. Hindwing with C anastomosing 
at a point with SC, SC 2 short-stalked, M 1 separate ; concolorous with 
forewing, a rather conspicuous, darkened green cell-spot on DC 3 . Under 
surface whitish-green, costal area of forewing slightly suffused with reddish 
(or reddish-grey) basally, at the costal margin more strongly reddish. 
Barberton, 6th and 17th January, 1911, codected by Mr. Janse, the 
former example kindly presented to me. 
Bluer green than asyllaria Swinh., less vermiculata-liYe in scaling, 
spots less marked, shape slightly more that of Omphax ; evidently very 
near simplicissima Prout, which in its turn may have to sink to simplex 
Warr. ( haploa Prout). The characters in this group (antennal structure, 
abdominal crests, stalking or separation of M 1 of hindwing) seem all 
unreliable or difficult to utilize so as to bring about a natural grouping ; 
for the present I continue to call all its constituents in which the $ antenna 
is pectinate Heterorachis . It is curious that almost throughout the group, 
but especially in Heterorachis , the $$ are more frequently taken than the 
c?c? ; I have no information as to their habits. 
Comostolopsis germana, n. sp. 
$ $, 14-18 mm. Face and palpus bright orange-ochreous, the latter 
white beneath ; third joint in rather short, in § moderately elongate. 
Vertex and base of antenna white ; antenna in ? subserrate. Thorax 
and abdomen green above, becoming white anally ; white beneath. Fore- 
wing slightly less pointed at apex than in simplex Warr., slightly less 
yellowish-green ; costal margin white or whitish-green, rather broadly at 
base, the extreme edge in fresh specimens ochreous ; the lines silvery 
white, rather less fine than in the allies, strongly waved or lunulate-dentate ; 
first line near base, vertical from hind margin, inbent at fold, becoming 
