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XOCTIJIDA:. 
except towards costa where it is defined on inner side by 
blackish ; hind wing with minute black discoidal point and 
faint whitish postmedial line. 
Hab. Br, C. Africa, Mt. Mlanje ( Neave ), 1 $ type. Exp. 
34 millim. 
Herpeperas phcenopasta. n. sp. 
$. Head, thorax, and abdomen ochreous suffused with 
rufous. Fore wing ochreous strongly suffused with rufous 
and sparsely irrorated with black, the costal edge finely 
striated with black ; a black point in middle of cell ; reniform 
faint, rufous, elliptical ; postmedial line rufous slightly 
defined on outer side by white, angled outwards below costa, 
then oblique ; a slight oblique whitish shade from apex. 
Hind wing rufous, the terminal area irrorated with a few 
black scales ; postmedial line rufous defined on outer side 
by white, arising at vein 6 and ending at tornus ; the termen 
narrowly rufous to vein 2 and with a fine whitish terminal 
line and a rufous line at base of cilia. Underside ochreous 
tinged with rufous, striated with red- brown and sparsely 
irrorated with black except on inner areas ; fore wing with 
the costal area suffused with whitish, black points in middle 
of cell and on discocellulars, postmedial line faint, rufous, 
slightly sinuous, oblique to vein 6, then inwardly oblique ; 
hind wing with black discoidal point. 
Ab. 1. Fore wing with the reniform filled in with black. 
Hab. S. Nigeria, Lagos ( Strachan , Dudgeon), 2 $ type. 
Exp. 32 millim. 
Herpeperas atrapex, n. sp. 
Head, thorax, and abdomen ochreous irrorated with a 
few black scales, the last slightly tinged with rufous ; antennae 
finely ringed with blackish. Fore wing whitish ochreous 
sparsely irrorated with black ; the terminal area tinged with 
rufous ; a black point in middle of cell ; reniform faint, 
rufous, small, rather constricted at middle where there is a 
minute whitish spot on its inner side ; a slight oblique brown 
striga from middle of costa ; postmedial line red -brown 
defined on outer side by whitish towards costa, angled outwards 
below costa to below apex, then oblique to inner margin 
beyond middle, a brown striga beyond it on costa ; a curved 
black subterminal striga from costa defined on outer side 
by white, then a series of minute black streaks on the veins 
just beyond the postmedial line slightly excurved at vein 4, 
an oblique dark brown shade beyond it from apex ; cilia 
rufous. Hind wing ochreous sparsely irrorated with black, 
the terminal half tinged with rufous ; an oblique rufous 
medial line slightly defined on outer side by whitish ; a 
