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GONODONTIS. By L. B. Prout. 
contrasting -with the clean area of the ground-colour outside it. The type is a very small (30 mm) from the 
NieuAVveld Mountains; a short series from Annshaw (Cape'Colony), one of which is here figured, is somewhat 
connnuiaia. larger; other known localities are Cape Town and Dunhrody. — commutata suhsp. ( ? sp.) nov. (= figurata (J 
part., Janse). Considerably larger (42—44 mm) the curvature of the lines somewhat smoother, postmedian 
not incurved between the radials. median area suffused in posterior half, much more than twice as broad at 
costa than at hindmargin. “S. Africa” (I believe Natal) (J. A. Clark), type in my collection. A second 
from White River, Transvaal, in coll. South African Museum. 
tripartUa. A. tripartita Prout (14 k). Much like a less crenulate-margined figurata, but with the ground-colour 
clearer whitish grey (less irrorated with darker grey), the darkest clouding, more as in commutata, in the posterior 
half of the median area; antemedian line much less excurved, postmedian without denticulation, but with 
first bend b e h i n d the 3rd radial. Cape Colony; Annshaw, only the type known. 
rhodampu.r. rhodanipyx sp. n. (14 k). Remarkably distinct in the deep green forewing and thorax above and 
the bright red head and front of thorax. Antennal pectinations about as in figurata. Lines of forewing black, 
very slenderly pale-edged on their reverse sides; fringe slightly paler green. Underside largely suffused with 
reddish, postmedian indicated. Vredendal, Cape Colony, July 1927 (G. vak Son), 1 (J in Transvaal Museum. 
iusciaia. A. insciata Feld. (15 b). The unique type, a from Swellendam (Cape Colony), is faded, but was pro¬ 
bably never so bright and variegated as in Felder’s figure, here copied. The general coloration, however, 
and the course of the tAvo AAdiite, only feebly dark-edged lines render the species absolutely unmistakable. 
Infasclata. A. bifasciata Detvitz (14 k). Again abundantly distinct, not only in the zigzag Avhite bands, large and 
elongate AA'hif e cell-rings and terminal dashes between the veins (extended on to the fringe), but also in the 
maculafion of the liindAAung. Cape and reaching Orange Free State and TransA^aal. 
15. Genus; Ooiiocloiitii^ ilh. 
(See Vol, 4. p. 330.) 
Another genus of robust, more or less shaggy or strongly hairy species, but AA’ith simpler venation, 
all the veins being present in the forewing in both sexes, the 1st and 2nd subcostals arising separately, the 
1st occasionally anastomosing slightly AAuth the costal, the 2nd at times connected AA'ith the 3rd—4th. In all 
the knoAAm African species the antenna of the d is well pectinate; that of the $ is generally simple, in belli 
shortly pectinate. Hindtibia not dilated, all the siours developed. The genus has a AAude distribution in the 
Palaearctic and Himalayan Regions and is represented (though very sparingly) in North America; in Africa, 
so far as is yet knoAAui, it is almost exclusively eastern and southern. The species have generally a distinctive 
facies, though there is some variation in shape. >See mrther Vol. 4, p. 330. 
j)crple.vafa. G. perplexata Warr. (15 b), described as a Dyscio, evidently belongs here. In Aving-shape (Avith the 
margins almost smooth) and in general aspect reminiscent of some Drepanogynis ; indeed some confusion has 
arisen between it and D. incondita, from AAdiich the venation, less extremely long pectinations, larger and more 
ocellated cell-spots and especially the strongly-marked hindAving beneath (large cell-spot, punctiform post¬ 
median and rather broad, though ill-defined subterminal shade) readily distinguish it. The $ is larger and rather 
broader Avinged than the figured (J. Discovered at the foot of the Nieuwweld Mountains, together AA’ith D. in¬ 
condita; knoAA ii also from Deelfontein. According to the genitalia, near paliscia. 
humulcm. G. homalcs Prout. Only knoAAur from the type from Groenvei, Eastern Pretoria district. Rather 
larger than perplexata, expanding 44 mm. ForeAving Avith apex minutely produced, terinen otherAA'ise smooth, 
slightly gibbous in anterior half; tone very pale drab, much less irrorated than in perjilexata, cell-ring rather 
large, postmedian line only indicated by a costal dash. HindAving shading off to Avhitish proximally, the cell- 
spot Avanting aboAm, very small beneatli. Face prominent, slo])ing, AA’ith a tuft below. I iioaa" strongly suspect 
it is a Pareclipsis . Palpus about tAvice as long as diameter of eye. 
sildoneura. G. stictoneura Prout (18 c). Probably nearer to perple.mta, though more yelloAvish, less irrorated, the 
cell-rmg of the foreAving more inclined to break up into dots, the vein-dots on the lines strong, the postmedian 
accompanied distally by a pale line. Underside closely similar to that of perplexata. Cape Toavii to Kalk Bay. 
iutegmrla. G. integraria Ouen. (15 c), founded on a $ from “Abyssinia", is only knoAAn to me from Gfenee’s 
description and Oberthur’s figure, here reproduced. From these I judge that it differs from perplexata and 
stictoneura in its someAAhiat more rounded foreAving, narroAver cell-mark (on the underside linear), absence of 
the iiiAvard curve in the posterior half of the postmedian and in the underside, Avhich apparently sIioaa’s no 
traces of a subterminal shade. 
