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continued between them along the frontal margin : face with a mem- 
branous, semi-transparent, whitish triangular lobe standing out in front 
between the antennaB : antennae with two inflated basal joints, and a 
long blackish inarticulate terminal seta ; the basal joint is concealed on 
the inner side by a broad thin lobe-like production of the frontal sur- 
face. Thorax stout, polished above, with raised lines and depressed 
spaces. Legs whitish. Abdomen broad and depressed, the lateral 
margins produced into teeth ; the colour in my example is dull greenish, 
which proceeds from the eggs showing through the integuments, and a 
mass of green eggs is protruded from the antepenultimate ventral seg- 
ment ; in the cavity of the last segment beneath is seen a longitudinal 
membranous lobe, produced into a rather long tooth. The three caudal 
setae nearly equal, white, not so long as the abdomen, stout and glabrous 
at the base, all pubescent at the tips. Wings whitish, semi-opaque, 
with a slight smoky-grey tinge : the anterior pair long, triangular, with 
three strong longitudinal greyish veins (without counting the costa), 
the second and third of which are furcate from about the middle, all 
starting from the base ; seven or eight transverse wavy veinlets between 
the first and second veins : posterior pair ovate, more transparent, veins 
white. 
One female imago (?) of this fine species was taken by Mr. Trimen at 
light, at the Mapumulo Mission Station, Umroti District, Natal, on the 
evening of the 3rd March, 1867. 
London : Gtli December, 1867. 
A HITHERTO UNPUBLISHED DESCRIPTION OF A NEW PTEB0PH0EU8. 
BT C. S. aREGSON. 
Pteeophoeus Hodgkinsonii, Greg. 
Alar expanse 7 to 8 lines ; head, face, thorax, body and legs 
light, creamy, ashy-grey, — lightest towards the cleft ; very slightly 
irrorated with darker atoms ; the discoidal and cleft-spots scarcely 
perceptible. Under-wings rather darker than the upper- wings. 
Ft. Hodghinsonii differs from Ft. Lowei, to which it is nearly 
allied, in the general colour being lighter, the less irrorated or suffused 
appearance, its lesser size, and in its want of the light canary-coloured 
terminal costal edging to the tip ; and also in its time of appearance ; — 
from Ft. plagiodactylus in its smaller size, much lighter colour, the 
entire want of the bright buiF and light ashy- white upon the thorax and 
body, the absence of the dark blotches so conspicuous upon good speci- 
