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rounded ; shining white ; an irregular blackish streak along costa from 
base to §, thickened near base and towards middle, terminated by an 
acutely angulated silvery-metallic transverse line running to tornus, edged 
with blackish towards tornus, angle of this line filled by a fulvous spot 
preceded by two black marks; sometimes a small cloudy blackish spot 
on dorsum before middle ; area beyond this line fulvous, on costa blackish 
with two outwardly oblique white strigulae and one inwardly oblique : 
cilia dark fuscous, beneath tornus whitish, above apex with two white 
strigulae parallel to margin, beneath apex with a black basal dot, on termen 
extreme base white. Hindwings grey, more or less whitish- tinged 
anteriorly ; cilia in Pretoria specimen ochreous- whitish, in Barberton 
specimen grey. 
Pretoria, Barberton (Janse) ; in December, two specimens. 
Polyhymno paracma Meyr. 
The apical markings of forewings are accidentally omitted in my 
published description, viz., a brownish-ochreous streak running into apex, 
and two short white wedge-shaped costal marks running into this. 
Polyhymno tetragrapha, n. sp. 
$. 16 mm. Head shining whitish. Palpi dark fuscous. Thorax 
dark fuscous, patagia shining white except shoulders. Abdomen grey, 
beneath whitish. Forewings elongate, narrow, costa almost straight, 
apex strongly produced, acute, subfalcate, termen concave beneath apex, 
then obliquely rounded ; dark purplish-fuscous mixed with blackish ; a 
broad white median streak from base, posteriorly attenuated to a point, 
not reaching termen ; some whitish suffusion towards dorsum posteriorly ; 
a fine white oblique streak from beneath middle of costa and a rather 
broad one from submedian fold opposite meeting at an acute angle just 
beyond apex of median streak, angle suffused with light brownish ; an 
acutely angulated silvery transverse line beyond this, lower half close 
before termen, terminal edge beyond this slenderly brownish preceded by 
a fine white line ; a fine light ochreous-brown streak from § of costa into 
apical projection, above which are three wedge-shaped white marks from 
costa : cilia dark fuscous, above apex with two wedge-shaped white marks, 
on upper part of termen with a basal patch of white suffusion, in which 
are a black mark in concavity and three black dots beneath it. Hindwings 
dark grey ; cilia grey. 
Barberton (Miss Williams, Janse) ; in December and March, two 
specimens. 
Polyhymno hieracitis, n. sp. 
§. 10-11 mm. Head shining ochreous-white. Palpi white, second 
joint fuscous except towards apex. Thorax brownish, patagia white, 
shoulders narrowly brown. Abdomen grey. Forewings elongate, narrow, 
costa hardly arched, apex pointed, considerably produced, subfalcate, 
termen concave beneath apex, then very obliquely rounded ; fuscous, 
suffused with dark fuscous in disc ; a rather broad shining ochreous-white 
median longitudinal streak from base to near termen, apex obtuse ; between 
this and tornus is an indistinct short oblique whitish line, sometimes suffused 
into the streak ; a whitish line along costa from near base to about middle 
