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the apex into the light inner-marginal area, darker behind it. Vein 4 white as far as the distal margin, vein 
3 less wdiite. Hindwing greyish-brown, fringe lighter. $ 32 mm. Natal. 
B. amens Gimi. (= plana Whr.) (6i). Body and forewing whitish ochreous. Veins white. A black 
streak below the base of the cell and above the inner margin. A more intensely white streak at the median 
vein, continued at vein 4, edged dark on both sides. Dark submarginal streaks as far as the apex between the 
veins. Hindwing white, somewhat brownish at the margin, more intensely so in the $. 30—32 mm. South Africa. 
B. ustata Hmps. (Gi). Thorax brownish ochreous and reddish, abdomen greyish-brown, forewing yellow¬ 
ish-brown with reddish-yellow spots in the cell, at the cell-end, and less distinctly below the centre of the 
cell. Costal margin whitish in its interior half, brown at the end. A brown shadow below the apex. A white 
streak at the end of the median vein. Ring-macula and reniform macula faded reddish-yellow. The exterior 
line is a single or double row of black dots, inserted behind the cell. Fine white veins in the marginal area. 
Hindwing white, pale brown at the margin. The similar Cirphis usta is more violettish-brown in the marginal 
area of the forewing and has a very light marginal line. (^28 mm. Transvaal. 
B. pyrostrata Hmps. (6 i). Body reddish ochreous, abdomen somewhat brownish. Forewing reddish- 
yellow, with fine white veins, brown streaks between them in the marginal area. Costal margin light at the 
base. Interior line marked by two obliquely arranged black dots in the submedian area. A black dot at the 
lower cell-angle. Exterior row of dots introangular behind the cell. A pale oblique shadow' with a dark edge 
proceeds from the apex. Dark shadowy stripes at the subcostal and median veins, no white streak at the me¬ 
dian vein. Hindwing blackish-browoi. $ 32 mm. Ruwenzori, Kilimanjaro. 1 $, labelled Ruanda 2700 m, in 
the Berlin Museum, presumably belongs to this species. Its hindwing is also dark. 
B. inangulata nov. sp. (6 k). ^ similar to acutangulata G aede. Thorax and forewing pale whitish ochreos, 
tegulae with dark lines, abdomen dark brown. In and below the cell brown towards the apex. A white streak 
at the end of the median vein, sometimes quite indistinct, not encircling the black dot at the lower cell-angle; 
this dot, however, has a rusty yellow halo extending in the cell somewhat basad. The veins in the distal area 
fine white. Interior and exterior lines as well as the apical area as in pyrostrota. Hindwing smoky browm, fringe 
whitish, lighter than in acutangulata. Forew'ing of $ darker. The cell and the space above the centre of the 
inner margin more extensively rusty red. Abdomen and hindwing almost blackish, but fringe light. On the 
under surface of the and $ the beginning of the exterior line is distinctly marked by a black spot, the discal 
luna of the hindw'ing is black, the exterior line dark again in both w'ings. 28—30 mm. Kikuju, East Africa, 
type in the Berlin Museum. This is the species mentioned as torrentium Guen. by Saalmuller in Lep. Madag. 
p. 257. 
The following species have a somewhat shorter third palpal joint. 
B. uncinatus Gaede (= melianoides Hmps) (6 k). Body and forewlng pale ochreous. A fine black streak 
below the base of the cell, a dark shadow' at vein 1. A dark reddish-browm radial stripe through the cell as far 
as the distal margin, w'here it widens a little. A w'hite line at the median vein almost to the base, forming a 
hook at the lower cell-angle. A fine exterior row' of dots, which may also be absent. Behind it fine black streaks 
on the veins, variably distinct. Hindw'ing wdiite, often somewhat browmish at the margin. Specimens with 
almost uniformly brownish ochreous forewdngs and darker hindwings are called: —■ mediofusca 28—34mm. 
South and East Africa, Abyssinia, Madagascar. 
B. tacuna Fldr. Body and forewdng coloured as in uncinatus . A black streak below the base of the 
cell and one at the lower cell-margin, a black spot at the cell-angle; the streak is an isolated spot in Felder’s 
figure, w'hich being sometimes the case makes the name bipunctata Strd. superfluous. In the non-typical normal 
form the median vein and vein 3 are fine white. Sometimes this fine streak is also absent. Behind the black 
dot the dark browm radial band extends as far as its upper edge, it widens a little before the distal margin, 
and is bordered above with a black oblique line. An exterior row of dots and black marginal dots may be 
present or absent. Hindw'ing white. — melianoides Mschlr. has no black streak or spot at the lower cell-margin 
and differs therefore somewhat from the two-dotted tacuna Fldr. 28—32 mm. South and East Africa. —■ The 
white streak of the median vein may also be very strong and may somew'hat comprise the black corner-dot. 
This is melanostrota Hmps. (6 k). East and Soiith Africa. 
B. rubrescens Hmps. (6 k). Thorax pale red-brown, abdomen brownish ochreous, blackish beneath. 
Forewing brownish ochreous with light red-brown stripes. Costal margin greyish-violet. A black streak below 
the base of the cell and from the centre of the inner margin outwards. Median vein white, edged with black 
on both sides. Veins in the marginal area white, especially veins 3, 4 and 5, brown stripes between tliem. 
Hindwing showing through white. 36 mm. Natal. 
B. rufescens Gaede (6k). Thorax and forewing reddish-brown. Costal margin greyish-violet, also at 
the inner margin in the basal part. Median vein as well as veins 3, 4, 7 and 8 white, sometimes also vein 6 some¬ 
what W'hite. A faded light spot at the base of 3 and 4. No dark stripes between the veins. Hindwdng w'hite, 
fringe pale reddish-brown. 30—32 mm. East Africa. 
auiens. 
ustata. 
pyrostra ta. 
inangulata. 
uncinatus. 
medio- 
iusca. 
tacuna. 
melia¬ 
noides. 
melano¬ 
strota. 
rubrescens. 
rufescens. 
