DREPANOGYNIS. By L. B. Prout. 
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D. pero Front (14 e). Probably near athrodpsegma. Forewing darkened with copious but irregularly pero. 
disi)osed red-brown irroration, a conspicuous pale patch remaining between the bases of the 3rd radial and 
the 2nd median; antemedian line more strongly excurved than in athrodpsegma, suhterminal band complete, 
cell-spot obsolete. Clanwilliam, Cape Colony, only the type $ known. 
D. hypoplea sp. n. (13 c as “hypoptea''). Probably also near athrodpsegma, of the same size, similar in hypopiea. 
structure, hut with the 2nd subcostal not touching the 3rd to 4th. Wings perliax^s still better rounded, distal 
margins smooth, irroration strong, more uniform, lines very weak, antemedian less bent, i^ostmedian slightly 
more curved; cell-dot of forewing less large, of hindwing obsolescent, outer markings obsolete. Deelfontein, 
11 Maxell 1902 type ^ in coll. British Museum, together with a darker ^ from Masite, Basutoland, 14 Decem¬ 
ber 1901 (R. Cbawshay). 
D. strigulosa Front (14 e). More robust than athrodpsegma (14 e), pectinations less slender, forewing sirigidosa. 
more reddish, especially in the densely strigulated median area, the distal area remaining nearly as jiale as the 
hindwing; cell longer. Strigulation olivaceous grey, lines cloudy, cell-dots small. Deelfontein (the type) and 
Fraserburg (a quite similar cJ). 
D. devia Front (14 f). This and the forir following forms are evidently very closely allied and (the more devia. 
so because the position and exact shajje of the lines are certainly liable to some individiial variation) xieculiarly 
difficult to discriminate. Prof. Janse has done some excellent work with them, especially as regards the (J 
genitalia, but we have still much to learn. All have the same simple xtattern; cell-dots (often shght on hind¬ 
wing), 2 lines on forewing (the x)ostniedian, especially anteriorly, often indicated beneath) and an incomplete 
one on hindwing (generally obsolete beneath), the underside (as also in the sjDecies from chromatina to strigulosa) 
well irrorated but without the coarse strigulation, colour-contrasts and generally strong markings which charact¬ 
erize our fu’st seven Drepanogynis. Of tyj)ical devia I only know 2 Transvaal d'ej, the tyjie from Woodbush, 
the other from Haenertsburg, both of which were in England when Janse was iwexiaring his volume; he gives, 
as “devia”, a beautiful x^hotograqili of the Karkloof form of leptodoma and his descrix^tion seems clearly to x^oint 
to that sx^ecies, and he decides, from a careful study of the genitalia, that both are one sx^ecies; it is quite x>o^- 
sible that he may be right as regards true devia also, but we must await a comxoarison of tyxncal devia with 
the leptodoma forms. In both the known devia, the 2nd subcostal of the forewing fails to touch the 3rd—4th, 
though there may be a vestigial connective bar. Further distinctions are noted under leptodoma. 
D. leptodoma FrotF (14 f). Paler, more slenderly built and more glossy than devia, the anastomosis of leptodoma. 
the 2nd subcostal of the forewing, so far as yet observed, quite normal. Postmedian of forewing, at least in 
the (JeJ, without the blunt angidation in the middle which is consx)icuous in devia, that of the hindwing more 
oblique, reaching the hindmargin nearer to the anal angle. Founded on 2 (JeJ from Pilgrim's Rest, Transvaal. 
— karkloofensis suhsp. nov. (14 f) is much more brown or red-brown, similar in colour to vara and glancichorda. karkloofen- 
The $$ which — by the locality and their general effect — I confidently refer here can be confusingly similar 
to those of glancichorda, having sometimes a more sinuous postmedian on the forewing than the (Jd, but that 
of the hindwing seems to remain straighter and more obliqiie than in the allies, discernible across the Aving 
(though extremely slender), x^assing near (sometimes close to) the cell-dot. Karkloof, Natal, fairly common, 
fype hi the British Museum; xn’obably some other Natal records belong here. The genitalia differ very little 
from those of typical leptodoma. 
D. glaucichorda Front (14 f). At least as robiast as devia, more reddish, cell-sxiot of forewing enlarged, glaucickor- 
Xiostmedian line commonly followed distally by dark-grey sxiots, an intervening xiale thread generally glaucous- 
grey or whitish. The distal margins are slightly more bent than in most of the grouxi; the xiostmedian line of 
the hindwing is more excurved, so that its middle ])art, Avhen not obsolete, is nearer to the termen than in lepto¬ 
doma. Antenna of $ subserrate (as also in vara and x^robably karkloofensis). Transvaal, the tyxie from White 
River; also from Tugela, Zululand and a few localities in Natal; a x^au' from Katberg(E. Cax^e Province)larger 
(35—36 mm) but otherwise identical. 
D. metoeca sp. n. (13 c). Antenna of the ^ with the slight serrations transformed (gradually), after meioeca. 
a short basal part, into true x^ectinations — though scarcely longer than diameter of shaft — which continue 
till % the antennal length. Forewing, as in allied bent at 3rd radial; hindwing elongate costally, not fully 
rounded terminally. Probably nearest to glaucichorda except as to antenna; foreAving AA'ith more Aunaceous-grey 
admixture, cell-mark rather longer than 2nd discocellular, x^ostmedian line curving close to costa, the x^ale hind- 
AATing and the underside perhaxAS a little more strongly marked than in glaucichorda. S. W. Tanganyika; Ma- 
rungu Plateau, W. side, 7000 feet, February 1922 (T. A. Barns), 1 $ in the British Museum. 
D. vara Front (14 f). Again Amry similar, but fairly easy to distinguish by the strong central x^i’ojec- vara. 
tion of the x^ostmedian and generally (at least in the (J) distinct ax^ical dash on the foreAA'ing. Distal margin of 
foreAving prominent in the middle. Natal: Karkloof and Impetyeni Forest, 
