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Forewing with termen not elbowed at R 3 ; light grey-brown with 
slight purple flush, finely strigulated with darker, terminal area slightly 
paler than basal and median ; lines fuscous brown ; antemedian not 
sharp, rather thick, curved anteriorly, followed by narrow olive-brown 
shading ; postmedian from costa 2 or 3 mm. before apex, very faintly 
incurved between radials, and more so from behind R 3 to M 2 , then vertical 
to posterior margin ; preceded by olive-brown shading nearly to the 
black discal spot ; terminal line brownish, quite weak ; fringe tinged 
with brown. Hindwing only extremely weakly elbowed at R 3 , inappreciably 
at the other veins ; concolorous with terminal area of forewing ; discal 
spot present, small ; no other markings except the beginning, at towards 
three-fourths of inner margin, of the brown postmedian shade. Under 
surface rather strongly tinged with rufous, excepting the inner-marginal 
area of both wings ; the dark strigulation or speckling present ; cell-spots 
weak ; no other markings. 
Woodbush Village, 11th December, 1909 (C. J. Swierstra). Type in 
coll. L. B. Prout ; cotype in coll. Transvaal Museum. 
The nearly smooth wing-margins suggest Aspilatopsis more than 
Apleroneura , and vein C of the hindwing is oppressed to the cell for rather 
longer than is typical in the last-named genus. On the other hand in 
Aspilatopsis A vein SC 5 of forewing is present, whereas in the present A 
it is absent, and SC 4 runs to the apex, exactly as in typical Apleroneura. 
There are certainly too many generic names in use in this group, and 
possibly the distinction between Aspilatopsis and Apleroneura will prove 
not to hold, or both may even have to sink to Nopia Walk., of which I 
only know Walker’s poor (§) type, though I have seen an unnamed A 
from Grahamstown which is probably a close ally and has SC 5 present ; 
pending an exhaustive revision, Apleroneura is clearly the correct location 
for devia. SC 2 of forewing approaches, but does not touch the stalk of 
SC 3 ' 4 . 
Apleroneura nigrapex, n. sp. (PI. XII, Fig. 1). 
$, 42 mm. Head and palpus brown, slightly reddish ; face only very 
slightly tufted below. Antenna dull brown, subserrate. Thorax above 
dull brown, slightly reddish, beneath redder ; abdomen paler than thorax, 
heneath redder than above. 
Forewing ample, costa strongly arched near base, then straight to 
near apex ; termen nearly vertical at first, bluntly bent in middle, becoming 
moderately oblique ; dull brown tinged with reddish, irrorated with black, 
•especially in basal and costal regions ; first line dark reddish brown, 
starting from a black spot at two-sevenths costa, oblique outwards to cell, 
less strongly oblique outwards to submedian fold, strongly inbent on SM 2 
and vertical to posterior margin ; this line is slightly dentate outwards 
on the veins and accompanied proximally, from SC to posterior margin, 
by a very fine pale line ; discal spot rather large, black ; postmedian line 
at nearly three-fourths, bluntly lobed outwards between radials, accom- 
panied proximally by a black spot on costa and distally throughout its 
course by a fine pale yellowish line, to which again follow some blackish 
spots between the veins ; a thick oblique black mark from apex. Hindwing 
