50 Annals of the South African Museum. 



GEN. PTYCHOPODA Steph. 



4. PTYCHOPODA LIPARA, sp. nov. 



9 - 27 mm. Face and upperside of palpus black. Vertex and 

 antenna whitish. Collar light brown. Thorax, abdomen, and legs 

 concolorous with wings, forefemur and foretibia partly darkened. 

 Abdomen robust. 



Forewing rather broad, costa slightly arched, apex not acute ; 

 glossy, pale ochreous-grey, with slight fleshy tinge (less reddish than 

 in eugeniata Mill., nearly as in deeply coloured examples of sylves- 

 traria Hb. = straminata Tr.), the dark irroration red-brown, sparse 

 and very fine ; first line obsolete ; discal mark sharp, slightly longer 

 than broad ; median shade slender, brownish, not strong, well distal 

 to the cell-mark, incurved between M 1 and SM 2 ; postmediaii line 

 indicated by a slightly sinuous row of vein-dots, as in eugeniata Mill. ; 

 subterminal line very faintly indicated by a slight (almost inappreci- 

 able) darkening of the rest of the distal area ; fringe Avith small but 

 sharp proximal dots at vein-ends. Hindwing with termen smooth, 

 even ; as forewiug, with discal dot not elongate, median shade here 

 vague, apparently bending closely round it on the proximal side. 

 Forewing beneath similar, at hindmargin paler ; hindwing more 

 whitish, with discal dot slightly elongate, postmediaii line of dots and 

 those of fringe feeble. 



Natal, Durban, January, 1903 (G. F. Leigh). 



This may be rather near oranaria Bang-Haas (Iris, xx, 79, t. 3, 

 p. 16), from S. Orau, which is only known to me from the description 

 and figure, but the new species is rather larger, ampler-winged 

 (forewing rather more rounded), less reddish in tone, more weakly 

 dusted. 



GEN. PALAEASPILATES Warr. 



5. PALAEASPILATES MANSUETA, sp. nov. 



cf - 34 mm. Differs from the only hitherto known species, ino/ensa 

 Warr. (Nov. Zool., i, 370), as follows: Foreiving with costal margin 

 straighter in middle, apex less pointed, termen not sinuous in 

 anterior half ; colour paler, light yellow- grey, the irroration very fine, 

 postmediaii row of dots developed throughout, almost parallel with 

 termen (at 2 to 2 - 5 mm.), the dark line or shade which accompanies it 

 in inoffensa almost entirely obsolete. Hindwing with the feeble post- 

 median line (slightly better developed on the underside) also nearly 



