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Annals of the Transvaal Museum. 
(G. A. K. Marshall). Lower Tugela, Zululand, 160 feet elevation, 21st 
September, 1902 (E. D. Reynolds). The last three (all $) in coll. British 
Museum. The Pretoria specimen is an aberration or local form, of a much 
less reddish colour and with the postmedian line of forewing only very 
slightly curved. 
Rather more stoutly built than chromatina Prout ( Apleroneura ), deeper 
coloured, more dark-dusted, forewing with larger discal spot, lines less, 
clean-cut, usually further apart on hind margin of forewing, postmedian 
on hindwing much less near the discal spot, under surface less marked, etc. 
But in the extraordinary variability of some South African “ Ennomids,’ 5 
it is not absolutely impossible, they may have to be merged. The generic, 
name Drepanogynis Guen. has priority over Apleroneura Warr., which — 
in ignorance of Guenee’s species — I have hitherto used for this genus. 
Sicyodes ocellata intuens, n. form. 
39 mm. Structure as in cambogiaria Guen. ( = ? biviaria Guen.), 
shape not very dissimilar, forewing with costal margin relatively longer, 
termen more strongly gibbous at radials, more strongly oblique behind, 
hindwing rather longer. Face dove-colour, somewhat mixed with ochreous.. 
Palpus dotted with darker reddish, the minute terminal joint dark grey. 
Vertex, antenna, body, and legs dove-colour, the legs dark-spotted. Wings 
dove-colour with vague olive-grey cloudings (especially in median area of 
forewing) and indistinct darker blue-grey spots, the costal half of forewing 
as far as the first line ochreous, shading off into the ground-colour 
posteriorly. Forewing with the two lines fine, whitish-ochreous, edged, 
on their obverse sides, with small black dots on the veins ; antemedian 
from costa at 6 mm., oblique outwards, very strongly bent behind SC, 
then straight to hind margin at nearly 5 mm. ; postmedian from costa 
2*5 mm. before apex to hind margin at beyond 7 mm., tolerably straight, 
but with an extremely slight angle at R 3 ; fringe ochreous proximally, 
whitish distallv and with dark spots opposite the veins ; cell-spot large, 
grey, dotted with blackish (especially in its centre) and with a deep 
blackish-red circumscription. Hindwmg with slight indications of a 
sinuous whitish postmedian line, a row of grey dots distally and parallel 
to it somewhat larger and more distinct than the rest of the dots ; an 
ill-defined grey spot at torn us ; fringe proximally paler than on forewing, 
opposite the tornal spot mixed with red ; spots opposite veins as on fore- 
wing. Forewing beneath similarly but more vaguely marked, antemedian 
line wanting ; hindwing beneath with a small black discal dot, the post- 
median whitish line of upperside not reproduced, but the dots beyond 
stronger and accompanied by a pale line corresponding to the postmedian 
of the forewing. 
Sarnia, Natal, 12th August, 1913. 
Probably a 5 form to ocellata Warr. (Nov. Zool., IV, 260), though so 
different in colour and aspect. A second $ is smaller (34 mm.) and may 
represent the normal $ of the species ; ground-colour uniformly suffused 
with ochreous (paler on hindwing), the grey discal spot smaller, scarcely 
dark dotted, its circumscription indistinct, being merely darker ochreous. 
Durban (Colonel Bowker), in coll. British Museum. 
