Annals of the Sovith African Museum. 



base, at apex with whitish-ochreous bar. Hindwiugs whitish, round 

 margin of cell especially towards middle of winy irregularly sprinkled 

 with dark grey ; subcostal hairpencil whitish-ochreous ; cilia ochreous- 

 whitish. Forewings beneath with an irregular whitish-ochreous patch 

 extending over cell, surrounded with dark grey suffusion. 



CAPE COLONY, Hottentots Holland Mts., 4000 ft., Caledon 

 (Barnard) ; one specimen. 



GEN. DIOCOSMA Meyr. 



DlOCOSMA MOLYBDELA, 11. sp. 



c?. 14mm. Head ochreous-white. Palpi white, anteriorly suffused 

 with rose-pink, second joint rough-scaled beneath towards apex. 

 Thorax ochreous-white with two minute rose-pink dots on anterior 

 edge, and a slender fuscous bar before posterior extremity. Abdomen 

 ochreous-whitish. Forewings elongate, costa gently arched, apex 

 tolerably pointed, termen rounded, rather strongly oblique ; pale 

 whitish-yellowish ; costal edge rose-pink ; a dark ferruginous-fuscous 

 line from i of costa to dorsum near base, followed on dorsal half by a 

 triangular patch of three suffused white spots, beyond which is a spot 

 of fuscous suffusion on dorsum ; costal area from ^ to f suffused with 

 fuscous, marked with eight blue-leaden-metallic dots arranged in two 

 rows, lower margined with scattered black scales ; within this a pale 

 yellowish triangular spot on middle of costa, its edges marked by 

 slender brown lines extended to dorsum and enclosing a triangular 

 space suffused with white, preceded by two leaden-metallic dots edged 

 with some black scales, lower one raised, and followed by one dot in 

 disc and a white patch beneath this ; apical area beyond this forming 

 a pale yellow patch with a dark brown streak running round costa and 

 termen, marked on termen with several blue-leaden-metallic partially 

 connected dots : cilia pale yellow, on costa rose-pink suffused with 

 leaden-grey towards base, on termen dark rosy-grey at base, towards 

 tornus pale rosy-grey. Hiudwmgs ochreous-whitish ; cilia whitish- 

 yellowish. 



CAPE COLONY, Dunbrody, in January (Fath. A. Vogt) ; one specimen. 



GEN. THTE STARCH A Meyr. 



THYESTABCHA ACROGYPSA, n. sp. 



c. 12mm. Head whitish. Palp^whitish-ochreous, terminal joint 

 half second. Thorax whitish-ochreous, shoulders with a reddish- 

 ochreous spot. Abdomen ochreous-whitish. Forewings elongate, 



