AXIODES. By L. B. Pkout. 
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in the two preceding; those of the $ very short, inangidata is narrower winged, more tinged with brownish, witli- 
out the dark borders, the cell-dots j^resent, the postmedian line without a lobe jnst in front of the 2nd sid)- 
inedian vein. 
A. doclimoleuca Proia (13 h as ,,dochmohuca‘'). One of the snialle.st Axiodes, generally easy to distinguish ddrhmolcu- 
froin similarly coloured forms l)y the strong black streak from apex and the white streak or prtch in front thereof, 
Avhich invades a part of the median area, not rarely weakening or obliterating the ])ostmedian in crossing it. Post- 
median much less oblique than in mangulata and sectHis, merely incurved at fold and with a small outward tooth at 
2nd submedian. Locally common in Cape Colony; occasional also in Orange Free State and Basutoland and 
aboiit JohannesbiTrg. It is considered to be very variable; there may he two or three sx^iecies mixed, but as 
no very definite structural distinctions have yet been found I leave them provisionally as forms of dochttw- 
leuca (probably incipient species). — praefidens /. ( ? sp.) nov. (12 a). A slightly broader winged, ^ perhaps iimcfidens. 
with the pectinations a trifle shorter and more pointed than in dochnioleuca $; median area of forewing pale, 
with little suffusion, perhaps on an average broader, this effect sometimes enhanced by a shortening of the 
central projection of the anteniedian; sxibterminal band with the jjosterior spot apparently always strongly 
darkened. Katberg, 4000 feet, November and December (R. E. Turner), 3 1$ in the British Museum. 
A worn $ from Resolution, Albany District, April 1928 (A. Walton) in the Transvaal Musexim probably be¬ 
longs here. — cosmeta /. ( ? sp.) nov. (12 h). Proximal and much of distal area cinnamon-buff to antimony msmeia. 
yellow, median area darkened, postmedian line rather regxdarly and neatly curved, a subtriangxxlar dark cloud 
behind the apical streak. ^ pectinations apparently a little shorter. Deelfontein, type and 2 other among 
dochmole^oca. — Similarly coloured, but larger, examples from Katberg (1 cj, 1 $) seem to have the pectinations 
as in docJwioleuca (or a little longer), but await more material for their elucidation. 
A. dami sp. n. (13 i as ,,da7iH‘). Very like an overgrown doclimoleuca, especially to the least brown-suffu- dmui. 
sed, most sharply marked examples. Expanse 34—35 mm. Forewing with veins finely blackened; a conspicuous 
cell-dot; anteniedian line much less acutely angled before middle than in doclimoleuca, crossing the median 
proximally to the origin of its 2nd branch; ])roximal dark shade of subterminal rather evenly develo])ed. Fringes 
sharply chequered, distally with clear white spots. Kastrol Nek, January (G. van Son), 5 type in the 
Transvaal Museum. 
A. interscripta Prouf. Expanse 30 mm. Wings a little broader (or relatively shorter) than in most Interscrlpla 
Axiodes. Forewing grey, in places with strong white irroration, notably in proximal area and in an obliquely 
bounded band from near apex outside the po.stmedian; the latter is incurved centrally, not (as in doclimoleuca 
etc.) at the fold. Hindwing more brownish, with a broad, but not sharply defined, fuscous terminal or sub¬ 
terminal band. Cape Colony: Willowmore; Bechuanaland: Kuruman. 
A. sinuata Warr. (13 i) may be knoivn by its browner tinge, black lines, the shape of the postmedian, slmiata. 
consequent extreme narrowing of the median area posteriorly, the dark shades not within it, Init o u t side 
the black lines, the cell-spot larger than in the preceding group. Distal margin of both ivings crenulate or 
dentate, aspect somewhat EupagioAhke. Cape Colony; also known from Johannesburg. 
A.intricata Warr. (13 i as , iniribatW). Rather larger, the brown chiefly confined to the ]irincipal veins of the Intricata. 
forewing, the postmedian line quite differently formed, narrowly pale-edged distally, a subterminal light-grey 
band extended almost to termen. Only the original pair, from the foot of the Nieuwveld Mountains, yet known. 
A. carbolignea sp. n. (14 k). Antenna rather long, pectinations fairly stout, those of the $ very short, carhoVujnca 
slightly fusiform. Very much like tracliyacta Proud, but with termen a])preciably crenulate in the parts where 
in tracliyacta it is almost smooth, the median area of the forewing more solidly dark, the curves of the ante- 
median more angidar, the postmedian less dentate. Vredendal, Cape Colony, 23—30 July 1927 (G. van Son), 
5 AS, 1 ?, iiot variable; type in Transvaal Museum. 
A. trachyacta Proud. Expanse 35 mm. Narrow-ivinged, the forewing only crenulate (weakly) from 1st imchyacia. 
radial to 1st median. Pale ochreous grey, in part shaded with reddish, distal area of forewing remaining pale; 
lines of forewing black, anteniedian deeply excurved in anterior half, incurved at fold; postmedian from costa 
(2 mm from ajiex) to nearly hindmargin, irregularly dentate. 1 S fi’om Willowmore, Cajie Colony. 
A. synclinia sp.n. (14 k). Pectinations as in figurata. Ground-colour browner; median area of fore- .s//«c7iai«. 
wing more uniformly darkened, its white boundary-lines sharper, quite distinctively shaped, the anteniedian 
with a projection along the median vein. White line of hindwing also sharp. Pretoria, August 1925 (C. J. 
Swierstra), 1 S ill fii6 Transvaal Museum. 
A. figurata Warr. (14 k). Pectinations of the S long and rather stout. Pale grey, the median area flguraia. 
slightly more brownish and ivitli a proximally ill-defined darker shade just inside the postmedian, sharply 
