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oblique from costa to vein 6 and with some fiery red scales on it, a 

 large black patch on costa from it to apex, its lower edge irregularly 

 rounded and attenuate at extremities ; subterminal line represented 

 by some fiery red points on the veins ; cilia grey and fiery red. 

 Hindwing whitish suffused with fuscous ; the under side with 

 indistinct discoidal spot and curved postmedial line. 



Hab. Mashonaland (Dobbie). Exp. 36 mill. Type in B.M. 



(1) CONSERVULA CRAUSHAYI, n. Sp. 



$ . Antennas with uniseriate dentitions. Head and thorax 

 ochreous whitish mixed with rufous ; abdomen ochreous tinged with 

 yellow-brown. Forewing ochreous whitish with golden-brown 

 markings ; the basal area traversed by streaks in cell, submedian 

 fold and on vein 1 ; the antemedial line double, angled outwards 

 below costa and inwards in cell, then sinuous; orbicular and 

 reniform slightly defined by brown, the former small, round, the 

 latter large, irregular, pointed above and somewhat excised on inner 

 side, with some fuscous in it at lower angle of cell ; an oblique 

 waved line from lower angle of cell to inner margin ; the postmedial 

 line double with some golden-brown suffusion on each side of it, 

 arising near apex, obliquely curved to vein 2 then nearly erect ; a 

 slightly waved terminal line ; cilia brown at tips. Hindwing pale 

 suffused with fuscous ; the under side whitish irrorated with fuscous, 

 with dark discoidal spot and oblique postmedial line excurved below 

 costa. 



Hab. Basutoland, Mahalishoek (Crawshay). Exp. 30 mill. Type 

 in B.M. 



(4) ACKAPEX CARNEA, n. Sp. 



3 . Head and tegulse fuscous mixed with grey ; thorax flesh- 

 coloured ; abdomen ochreous. Forewing flesh-colour ; an ochreous 

 fascia in cell bent upwards at extremity to below apex ; the veins of 

 costal area with slight pale streaks ; a diffused fuscous streak on 

 median nervure ; a black point at upper angle of cell and others 

 just before and beyond lower angle ; a diffused ochreous fascia in 

 submedian interspace and above vein 2 to near termen; a slight 

 terminal series of black points ; cilia brownish with slight pale line 

 through them. Hindwing pale fuscous, the cilia paler. 



Hab. Basutoland, Machacha (Crawshay). Exp. 30 mill. Type 

 in B.M. 



