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of the subterminal equally weak or more so, rather thicker ; termen almost 
entirely without dark dots ; fringe plain, glossy. Hindwing with termen 
almost regular, but straight from R 1 to R 3 and again from M 1 to tornus, 
hence appearing very slightly prominent between ; first line wanting, 
median shade proximal to the cell-spot, curving round it. Fore wing 
beneath with the basal part as far as median shade slightly suffused, other- 
wise as above ; hindwing beneath clearer white, with cell-spot as above, 
postmedian line still weaker, median and subterminals obsolete. 
Pretoria, 20th March, 1910 (Miss J. Gunning). Type in coll. L. B. 
Prout ; cotype in Transvaal Museum. 
The median shade of the forewing both above and beneath is slightly 
darker at R 3 M 1 than elsewhere, with the result that in certain lights the 
effect is produced of a small cloud exteriorly and posteriorly to the cell- 
spot and almost forming a part thereof. 
Ptychopoda umbricosta, n. sp. (Pl.XII, Fig. 37). 
$ 2, 14 mm. Face blackish. Vertex and base of antenna white. 
Front of thorax red-brown overshaded with fuscous. Thorax and abdomen 
otherwise concolorous with wings. 
Wings elongate, strongly silky, pale stramineous with a few scattered 
black atoms. Fore wing with costal margin nearly to apex red-brown, 
overshaded, especially in basal half, with fuscous ; lines obsolete, their 
position sometimes indicated by large dark costal spots. Hindwing 
unmarked. Fringes long, concolorous. Underside less glossy, dusted 
with fuscous, sometimes wholly suffused ; three curved darker lines or 
shades sometimes traceable. 
Pretoria, type (rf), 16th April, 1910, in coll. A. J. T. Janse ; cotypes 
((J ?), March and April, in coll. L. B. Prout, Transvaal Museum and British 
Museum, Annshaw, two $, larger, in coll. British Museum. 
As ab. punctigera, n. ab., I describe a very distinct-looking $ in coll. 
Janse (Pretoria, 25th November, 1909), with lines traceable in pale grey, 
on forewing three, starting from ill- defined costal spots on hindwing two, 
rather nearly approximated, the outer strongly curved, between them a 
large distinct discal dot. Underside also strongly marked, both wings 
with rather large discal dot (crossed by a median line), a postmedian and a 
sub terminal line. Possibly a distinct species, but so exactly agreeing in 
shape, in the extremely strong gloss, etc., that I prefer to regard it as an 
aberration, or at most a seasonal form. 
This species is related to minimaria Warr. (Novit. Zool., xi, 468), not 
unlikely a subspecies, but in the lack of opportunity for exhaustive investiga- 
tion it has been considered better to describe it independently. Differs in 
the contrasted costa and typically in the absence (almost or quite complete) 
of the strong spots at base of fringe ; one or two specimens show minute 
dots, and one Annshaw $ has a minute discal dot in the hindwing, in this 
approaching the ab. punctigera. In all forms the vertex is whiter than in 
the East African race. 
Ptychopoda pericalles, n. sp. (PI. XII, Fig. 32). 
$, 16 mm. Head with palpus and base of antenna bright rosy. 
Thorax above pale greyish olive, rosy in front. 
