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Annals op the Transvaal Museum. 
Wings long and narrow. Forewing with apex rather acute ; pale 
greyish olive ; basal area almost to the postmedian fascia strongly suffused 
with rosy ; a rosy postmedian fascia at about two-thirds, with its distal 
edge nearly parallel with termen, narrow at posterior margin, broadening 
much to costa ; a rosy terminal band ; fringe pale olive grey. Hindwing 
with a narrower rosy terminal band ; no other markings. Under surface 
darker and duller, similarly but more confusedly marked, hindwing with 
terminal band broader than above, and with dull rosy suffusion nearly 
throughout. 
Pretoria, 3rd March, 1911 (D. Burger). Type in coll. Transvaal 
Museum ; a second $, from Mashonaland (H. B. Dobbie) in coll. British 
Museum is still more strongly suffused with rosy. 
Nearly related to Ptychopoda exquisita Warr. (Novit. Zool., iv, 219) 
and Pt. roseocinctct Warr. (ibid, vi, 32, Eois ) ; differing from the former in 
the distribution of the rosy markings, the darkened underside, absence of 
rosy on thorax above, etc. ; from the latter, to which it is still closer, in 
the pale fringes, absence of dark cell-spot and of white fillet between 
antennae. Veins SC 2 and R 1 of hindwing are normally stalked ; Warren 
describes them as “ not stalked ” in roseocincta, but this may be a lapsus, 
as the stalking is usually one of the most constant generic characters. 
Pseudasthena gralaria, Walk. ab. 
mediofusca, n. ab. 
The typical ground-colour (yellow with red dusting and red lunulate- 
dentate lines) confined to the proximal and distal areas, the median area 
of both wings entirely clouded with, blackish-fuscous, forming a broad 
central band. The costal one-third (approximately) of the forewing is 
also, though more feebly, suffused with fuscous. Under surface with the 
band also present, but less intense. 
St. Johns, July, 1909 (H. H. Swinney). Type (<J) in coll. Transvaal 
Museum. A second from N’Dalla Tando, N. Angola, 26th November, 
1908, in coll. G. T. Bethune-Baker. 
Lithostege sesquifascia, n. sp. (PI. XII, Fig. 31). 
(J $, 22-25 mm. Head, body, and wings light wood-brown, thorax 
and abdomen (especially beneath), and base of forewing above, except 
costally, rather paler. Forewing with two darker, broadly whitish-margined 
bands, the proximal from posterior margin at before one-half, oblique, 
terminating in apex of cell, the distal from posterior margin close to tornus 
running nearly into apex of wing, pointed at its apical end. Hindwing 
above and both wings beneath unmarked. 
V n der Merwe, 12th December, 1906, type (■<£) in coll. Janse; a $ from 
same locality and date in coll. British Museum. Pretoria, 11th February, 
1910 (a $ taken by A. J. T. Janse) in coll. L. B. Prout. Two $ (Rietfontein 
and Deelf ontein, Janse) and a $ (Rosmead, Cape Colony, November, 1901, 
S. Juby) in coll. British Museum. 
Belongs to Warren’s Sect. II of the genus [Ann. S. Afric. Mus., x (1), 
p. 23], antenna bipectinate. The pectus is also more hairy than in 
