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NOCTUIDJE. 
apex, at middle and tornus. Hind wing ochreous tinged 
with rufous ; a brownish subterminal shade ; cilia brown at 
base, white at tips. Underside creamy white ; fore wing 
with the costa slightly tinged with rufous, a slight dark dis- 
coidal striga and brownish subterminal shade. 
Hab. Orange R. Colony, Bloemfontein (Wilson), 1 
1 $ type. Exp. $ 24, $ 28 millim. 
Genus METOPONRHIS. 
Metoponrhis, Staud. Stett. Ent. Zeit. xlix. p. 54 (1888). 
Type. 
albirena, Christ. 
Metoponrhis leucodonta, n. sp. 
<$. Head and thorax black-brown glossed with leaden grey 
and with a few ochreous scales ; antennae whitish except 
towards base ; palpi in front, pectus and legs white, the fore 
legs suffused with black hi front, the tarsi blackish ringed 
with white ; abdomen white with diffused fuscous marks on 
dorsum and some fuscous irroration on ventral surface. Fore 
wing fuscous brown tinged with grey and slightly irrorated 
with whitish ; a slight subbasal black striga from costa 
defined on outer side by white and some white at base of inner 
margin ; antemedial hue black defined on inner side by grej'', 
waved ; a small indistinct black annulus in middle of cell ; 
reniform a deep chocolate-brown mark narrowing to a point 
above and expanding below to ivell below the cell, defined 
on inner side by a white line and with white patch beyond it 
emitting a tooth to the postmedial line at vein 5 ; an indistinct 
waved dark medial line from cell to inner margin ; postmedial 
line black, defined on each side by white towards costa, then 
on outer side by grey, strongly bent outwards below costa, 
then minutely waved, excurved to vein 4, then incurved, 
some white points beyond it on costa ; a slight waved white 
subterminal line excurved below vein 7 and at middle ; a 
terminal series of slight black lunules defined by white ; 
cilia fuscous brown mixed with white. Hind wing white ; a 
blackish terminal band from apex to vein 2 emitting slight 
black streaks before it on the veins ; a fine black terminal 
line defined on inner side by white from apex to submedian 
fold and a slight streak on extremity of vein 1. Underside 
white ; fore wing with some brown irroration in end of cell 
and terminal half of costa, a black discoidal lunule, curved 
postmedial line from costa to vein 2, and the terminal area 
suffused with fuscous ; hind wing with black discoidal point, 
curved postmedial line to vein 4 and subterminal shade to 
vein 2. 
