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Annals of the Transvaal Museum. 
Pienaars River, Pretoria, August, 1902 (C. J. Swierstra). Type in 
Transvaal Museum. Three Sisters, 22nd February, 1911, cotype in coll. 
A. J. T. Janse. 
It is possible that this species, which is evidently rather variable, 
may be the $ of inspersaria Guen., described from a But Guenee’s 
brief description deviates in several particulars, and if this be his insect 
he was at fault in placing it in Scodiona, which he well diagnoses on the 
face, palpus, tongue, etc. It is the only Tephrina known to me with 
pectinate antenna in the $. Vein SC 1 of the fore wing arises out of C. 
Macaria nobilitata, n. sp. 
$ $, 37-40 mm. Face and palpus bright ferruginous, face with a 
small cone of scales. Antenna whitish grey, rather sparsely and irregularly 
speckled with fuscous ; cilia in about as long as width of shaft. Vertex 
ferruginous, shading off pale anteriorly. Collar and extreme front of 
thorax bright ferruginous. Thorax, abdomen, and legs concolorous with 
wings, foreleg darkened above. 
Wings ample, shaped nearly as in the large African group comprising 
amandata Walk., distinguenda Warr., etc., the crenulation in termen of 
hindwing weak to very weak, the tooth at R 3 quite slight. Forewing 
with SC 1 wanting ; whitish grey or browner grey with a very faint violet 
tinge, coarsely and rather irregularly irrorated with fuscous, especially 
the costal margin and distal area ; the veins ferruginous ; lines deep 
fuscous, moderately thick ; antemedian from costa before one-fourtli. 
strongly outbent in cell (sometimes with noticeable teeth on SC and M), 
then oblique inwards, somewhat outbent again on SM 2 , reaching posterior 
margin at about one-fifth ; postmedian line from costa at nearly three- 
fourths, very gently outcurved at first, mostly parallel with termen or 
inappreciably incurred ; cell-spot distinct, elongate ; a weak ferruginous 
median line or shade, right-angled distally to cell-spot, then very gently 
incurved, touching posterior extremity of cell-spot ; an ill-defined 
ferruginous shade beyond postmedian line, occupying perhaps one-third 
to one-half of the distal area, but passing gradually into the less ferruginous 
terminal colour ; terminal line black or brown (sometimes weak), inter- 
rupted at the veins, thickened between ; fringe concolorous with wing, 
traversed by an indistinct darker grey line. Hindwing without darkened 
costa, no antemedian line ; cell-spot less elongate than on forewing ; 
median line straight, reaching abdominal margin at about three-fifths ; 
postmedian bent anteriorly, less parallel with termen. Underside with 
ground-colour whiter, veins more broadly ferruginous, costal margin of 
forewing and terminal area of both wings predominantly ferruginous, the 
latter usually interrupted with irregular whitish spots and blotches, 
especially on hindwing in distal half of the area ; no antemedian line, 
postmedian, terminal and cell-spot weaker than above, fringe whiter, 
sometimes darker-spotted opposite the veins. 
Sabie, December, 1911 (W. Grubb). Type (?) in coll. L. B. Prout ; 
also a second $, without exact locality, in coll. L. B. Prout. Piet Retief, 
30th August (2 o,l$), and 8tli November (1 $) in coll. British Museum, 
collected by R. Crawshay. 
