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ASPILATOPSIS. By L. B. Prout. 
carncata. A. camcata Warr. (13 d (J$) was founded on 2 in poor condition, from the foot of the Xieuwveld 
Mountains, 6 miles N. W. of Beaufort West, and it is not yet certain that the broader-winged and often larger 
which have been associated with it are really the same species. In any case both are distinguishable from 
the rest of the group by tlieir fleshy tone and especially by the position of the postmedian line at the costa. 
2 antenna rather slender, with the pectinations 2 or 3 times the diameter of the shaft. The dd have been 
taken in Natal and the Transvaal. 
aiicatu. A. alicata Feld. (13 d) is only known from the type, a d from Knysna. The palpus is rather short, the 
pectinations long and slender and the noticeable sinus between the radials of the hindwing suggests that it 
may be an usually large relative of the camhogiaria group {Sicyodes). Postmedian line of forewing at costa inter- 
inediate between those of carneata and aniennaria. 
anicnnaria. A. ailtennaria Guen. (= imbellata Walk., vilisaria Walk.) (14 i). The acquisition of Guenee’s type 
(Namaqualand) by the British Museum has enabled a study to be made of its genitalia and established the fact 
that it is not the common species which has generally been called anieniiaria in this country. The aedoeagus 
is small, the lateral jwocess of the juxta very short and small, though with a chitinized point at the end. Smaller 
than most qnmciata, intermediate in colour between that and rufaria, the antemedian spots on the folds not 
developed. Face tufted; antennal pectinations of the d very long. Only known from western Cape Colony. 
unUincaia. A. uniliiieata IForr. (= antennaria Janse, nec Guen.) (13 d). Moderate-sized or rather large, in the 
ty])e form light ochreous brownish, with the oblique postmedian line rather slender, the antemedian line with 
a dot behind the cell, a feAV weaker dots in a line with it along the fold. Antennal pectinations in both sexes 
long, d v ith the processes of the juxta rather long, c u r v i n g. Described from Zomba, similar forms known 
hcmigram- from Barberton and doubtless elsewhere. — ab. (?) hemigrammata Mah. was believed to come from the Comoro 
mrda. Islands but I rather doubt it, as it seems to be nothing but a small, weakly marked miilmeala d- Possibly, how¬ 
ever, it is an island race awaiting differentiation on better material. In any case the genitalia are identical. 
jidva. — ab. fulva nov. seems to be the commonest form, at least in 8. Rhodesia and Natal, brighter golden yellow, 
the postmedian line commonly tliickened, sometimes suggesting a slightly crenulate appearance at its outer 
edge; generally large; the line of the hindwing generally better traceable above, especially in the $. The latter 
sex usually has the distal area variegated with pinkish, the hindwing also less white than in the d- Variable. 
— unilineaia is distributed from Southern Rhodesia to Transkei. A few Nyasa specimens will perhaps prove 
racially separable, clearly conspecific. 
johnsionci. A. johnstonei sp. n. (14 i) can scarcely be a small local form of the preceding. Apart from the small 
size and more rufoiis tinge, its forewing shows a more convex distal margin, intermediate towards the shape 
of rufaria, which it also approaches in the rather well developed line of the hindwing. Antemedian of fore¬ 
wing inclined to form 2 spots, as in punctata. Genitalia distingiiishable by having the processes of the 
juxta straight (but not shortened as in punctata), the cornuti ap])arently less robiast than in unilineata. Songea, 
Tanganyika Territory (R. J. Johnstone), 3 dd^ kindly presented to the British Mxiseum by the discoverer. 
A pair from “Manboia" (])rol)ably Mamboia, E. Tanganyika Territory) seems to agree perfectly with them. 
punctalu. A. punctata Warr. (14 i). More glossy (less irrorated?) than unilmeata, otherwise difficult to distin¬ 
guish superficially in the d; although making a somewhat different impression. Antemedian line, at least 
in the typical form, very definitely forming a dark spot at each fold. Natal (the type from AVeenen) and 
Transvaal; })erhaps also Cape Colony and 8. Rhodesia. The genitalia leave no doubt as to the distinctness 
of this species; in particular, the process from the juxta. is considerably shorter, straight and 
pointed. I have seen no similar to these dd^ though I suspect some mottled ones which I formerly 
orthohaies. placed among unilineata may belong with it. — $-form. orthobates Prout (14 i) seems to be a prevalent, if 
not the only, form in this sex. 8omewhat narrow-winged, especially as regards the hindwing. Forewing of a 
relatively cold, greyish colour, antemedian line not niacidar. Fairly frequent from the Transvaal to Cape Co¬ 
lony. As no dd ffris coloration are known to me, it evidently belongs with one of the more brightly co¬ 
loured dd; pi’obably — botli because the tyjre, from Pilgrim's Rest, was collected with a d (extremely rvorn 
but in sonre respects very similar) whose genitalia are demonstrably punctata and partly because Janse's in¬ 
vestigations have resulted in associating a variable assemblage as ‘'"orthohates'' — the present is its correct 
location. 
simoihsi. A. simonsi sp. n. (14i). Expanse 34 rnm. Much darker than the rest of the antennaria group, heavily 
rnixed with blackish brown, superficially recalling Derrioides hypenissa (except in the pale, almost unmarked 
hindwing above), but with the narrower thorax, long pectinations, almost glabrous hindfemur and presence 
of the 5th (not the 3rd) sid^costal vein indicative of tyj^ical Aspilatopsis. Forewing with termen not quite so 
strongly convex as in hypenissa, i)ostmedian line at costa rather less near apex, from 3rd radial or 1st median 
rather more suddenly curved inward; the two spots which, as in punctata, represent the antemedian large, but 
not very noticeable in the midst of the rest of the dark clouding. Hindwing oidy approaching (^not quite 
