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Genus SERRODES. 
Serrodes, Guen. Noct. iii. p. 251 (1352) 
Type. 
campana, Guen, 
Serrodes flavitincta, n. sp. 
g. Head and thorax chocolate-brown ; antennae white 
tinged with brown ; palpi white on inner side ; pectus whitish 
and red-brown ; legs red-brown, the tarsi ringed with white ; 
abdomen grev-brown, the ventral surface darker brown, the 
anal tuft white at tip. Fore wing ochreous suffused with 
rufous and irrorated with chocolate- brown to the postmedial 
line, the median nervure, veins beyond the cell, and vein 1 
streaked with white on medial area, the terminal area grey 
tinged with red-brown, especially towards middle of termen, 
and faintly striated with brown ; subbasal line black slightly 
defined on each side by ochreous, waved, from costa to sub- 
median fold ; antemedial line whitish, defined on outer side 
by red-brown towards costa, where it forms a wedge-shaped 
mark, oblique and sinuous to discal fold, strongly incurved 
in submedian interspace, where there is a conical velvety 
black patch beyond it defined on outer side by whitish, then 
slight, blackish defined on each side by whitish and incurved 
below vein 1 ; a minute black point in middle of cell ; traces 
of a red-brown medial line towards costa, angled outwards 
below the costa ; reniform small and narrow, red-brown 
with whitish annulus defined on inner side by black ; post- 
medial line with small rufous patch at costa, bent outwards 
and almost obsolete below costa, then red-brown defined on 
each side by ochreous and with narrow black-brown band on 
its outer edge, straight and oblique to inner margin ; sub- 
terminal line hardly traceable, with a few black scales on it 
towards costa, excurved below r vein 7 and at middle ; a 
slight waved red-brown terminal line forming black points 
in the interspaces towards apex ; cilia red-brown. Hind 
wing red-brown with a grejish tinge and very faint post- 
medial shade ; a waved brown terminal line. Underside 
grey-brown ; hind wing with the inner area whitish, a small 
blackish discoidal spot. 
Hab. Natal, Durban, Botha’s Hill (Clark), 1 $ type. Exp. 
60 millim. 
Genus ASTICTA. 
Ophiusa, Ochs. Schmett. Eur. iv. p. 93 (1810) non descr. ; 
Treit. Schmett. Eur. v. (3) p. 288 (1826) nec Latr. 1818 
Asticta, Hubn. Yerz. p. 206 (1827) 
Ophiussa, Hubn. Yerz. p. 200 (1827) 
To.vorampa, Guen. Ann. Soc. Ent. Fr. 1841, p. 75 
Type. 
lusoria, Linn. 
procnir , Hiibn. 
lusoria, Linn. 
pastinum, Treit. 
Asticta vicioides, n. sp. 
Head, thorax, and abdomen grey suffused with reddish 
