Annals or the Transvaal Museum. 
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Aids proximaria Walk. 
This conspicuous species, described by Walker in the “ List of Lepi- 
dopterous Insects,” XXI, 365, as Boarmia, was unfortunately overlooked 
by me, on account of its being misplaced in the British Museum Collection, 
and I have therefore created a useless synonym — sexorbata Prout, Ann. 
Transv. Mus., Ill, 222. The figure, the structural information, and othei 
data are, however, new and not unimportant. 
Boarmia gonophora, n. sp. (PL XXV, Fig. 36). 
cJ, 25-28 mm. Body and wings pale wood-colour, head (with palpus 
and antennal shaft) and front of thorax strongly mixed with fuscous, 
dorsum of abdomen, except at base and anus, fuscous marked with black, 
venter irregularly black-spotted towards the sides. Antennal pectinations 
long, decreasing rather abruptly near apex, three or four segments seriate, 
extreme tip almost simple. Hindtibia rather stout, but apparently with- 
out hair-pencil. Forewing with SC 1 " 2 coincident uhroughout, free from C, 
in the type apparently connected with SC 3 ' 4 by a very short bar, in other 
examples certainly free. Wings sprinkled with fuscous and in places 
somewhat clouded with ferruginous. Fore wing with costa mostly marked 
with fuscous, leaving only in places spots or very short tracts of the 
ground-colour ; lines arising from equidistant blackish costal spots at 
before one-third, just one-half and beyond two-thirds ; antemedian sharply 
bent in cell, then oblique inwards ; median much less sharply benfc, 
thicker, crossing the elongate blackish cell-spot, then rather thick and 
parallel with antemedian, black, yet not very conspicuous on account of 
a strong fuscous sprinkling which gives to almost the entire central area 
the aspect of a dark band ; postmedian somewhat incurved subcostally, 
otherwise nearly parallel with termen in anterior half, then moderately 
strongly incurved, throughout marked with black spots on the veins, 
especially on the radials and M 1 ; subterminal lunulate-dentate, parallel 
with termen, filled in proximally with dark spots, that between SM 1 and 
SM 2 much enlarged ; distal area with dark interneural streaks from 
SC 5 to SM 2 , that between SM 1 and SM 2 much thickened ; these streaks 
end in black terminal spots. Hindwing with antemedian line near the 
base, median rather straight, almost meeting postmedian on inner margin, 
postmedian from about mid-costa, almost right-angled at R 3 , but with a 
slight angle also at M 1 , then very slightly incurved ; median baud, cell-spot, 
and black spots on postmedian as on forewing ; distal markings similarly 
developed to those of forewing, but less strongly, the proximal spots of 
subterminal large between the radials and at inner margin, otherwise 
obsolescent, distal streaks obsolescent (but the specimens are not in perfect 
condition) ; termen feebly subcrenulate, terminal spots enlarged into 
subcrescentic marks, only separated by the veins. Under surface with 
first line obsolescent, both wings being fuscous-speckled to base ; post- 
median less sharply angled than above ; entire distal area (except a 
narrow space immediately following postmedian) irregularly and not very 
distinctly dotted and blotched with fuscous. 
Barberton, 6th January, 1911 (type). Three Sisters, April, 1911 
(cotype in coll. L. B. Prout). 
