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very indistinct ; second from two-thirds costa or slightly beyond, approxi- 
mally parallel with fcermen, but slightly curved basewards at costa and 
between M 2 and SM 2 ; discal dot orange or orange-reddish, rather larger 
but less sharply marked than in simplex (where it is fuscous) ; fringe 
green, no red terminal markings. Hindwing concolorous, without first 
line, second more markedly sinuous. Under surface whitish-green, often 
with slight traces of reddish or orange suffusion costally in basal area of 
forewing. 
Natal : Durban, Pinetown, and Sarnia ; type (Sarnia, 12th January, 
1912, A. J. T. Janse) in my collection. An aberration with the discal 
spots green, scarcely differentiated from the ground-colour, was bred by 
my friend Mr. Percy Richards in Durban, in July, 1899, and is mentioned 
in Gen. Ins., fasc. 129, p. 238, as an aberration of simplex. 
Smaller than simplex , with which it has heretofore been confused, 
differing in the green, not yellow fringes, white costal margin, lack of 
fuscous discal dots and of red apical marking, less fuscous basal suffusion 
beneath, etc. I have now seen Warren’s type of capensis and a good $ of 
the same from Estcourt, Natal * it is a distant species, larger, much bluer, 
with red face, ochreous costa, etc. 
Allochrostes (?) imperfecta , n. sp. (PI. XXV, Fig. 7). 
A, 14 mm. Face green ; vertex broadly white ; occiput green. 
Palpus slender but somewhat rough-scaled beneath, scarcely as long as 
the diameter of the eye. Tongue slight. Antennal shaft white proxi- 
mally ; pectinations long. Forewing with costa scarcely arched, apex 
rather sharp, termen straight, tornus moderately pronounced ; SC 1 from 
cell, running into C, SC 2 - 5 rather long-stalked, M 1 just separate ; green, 
nearly as in saliata Feld., but not quite so bright, extreme costal edge 
white ; lines greenish-white, very fine ; first from rather beyond one-third 
hind margin, parallel with termen, obsolescent anteriorly to M ; second 
from two-thirds costa to three-fourths hind margin, nearly straight, very 
faintly sinuate outwards anteriorly and inwards posteriorly ; no terminal 
line ; fringe concolorous. Hmdwing with apex and anterior part of 
termen strongly rounded, termen almost straight from R 3 to beyond sub- 
median fold, giving a slight impression of a bend at R 3 , tornus rounded — 
prominent ; cell fully one-half, C anastomosing to nearly three-fourths 
cell, SC 2 long-stalked, M 1 stalked ; concolorous with forewing, a fine post- 
median line, slightly bent about R 3 . Under surface paler green, unmarked. 
Warmberg, Transvaal, 25th November, 1903. 
Unfortunately the sole example of this tiny species has lost both 
hindlegs, so that its generic position is in a measure conjectural. The 
minute palpus makes it unlikely that it is an Omphacodes. 
Xenochlorodes xina, n. sp. (PI. XXV, Fig. 5). 
5, 27 mm. Face red ; vertex white ; occiput green. Palpus exceed- 
ingly minute, red. Tongue apparently wanting. Antenna nearly simple, 
weakly subserrate ; white at base, becoming somewhat tinged with 
ochreous. Thorax above green, beneath white. Foreleg red above and 
on inner side, the tarsus paler ; hindleg whitish, with a pair of strong 
