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pale ochreous-bronzy. Abdomen whitish-ochreous. Forewings elon- 

 gate, costa moderately arched, apex obtuse-pointed, termen nearly 

 straight, oblique ; pale ochreous-bronzy ; a white attenuated streak 

 along costa from base to -f , costal edge dark fuscous towards base ; 

 stigmata minute, dark fuscous, plical beneath first discal ; a curved 

 subterminal series of indistinct minute dark fuscous dots : cilia whitish- 

 ochreous. Hiudwings pale greyish ; cilia grey-whitish, with faint 

 greyish subbasal shade. 



CAPE COLONY, Zonder End Peak, 3600 ft., in January (Barnard) ; 

 one specimen. 



GEN. DEPKESSARIA Haw. 



DEPRESSARIA GRAMMATOPA, n. sp. 



2 . 18 mm. Head and palpi light greyish-ochreous (partially 

 defaced) . Thorax light brownish. Abdomen whitish-ochreous slightly 

 sprinkled with grey. Forewings elongate, rather narrow, costa slightly 

 arched, apex obtuse, termeii very obliquely rounded ; 2 and 3 stalked ; 

 light brownish sprinkled with fuscous ; first discal stigma represented 

 by an extremely oblique black dash, second by a cloudy blackish dot : 

 cilia pale brownish. Hindwings pale greyish, veins suffusedly darker; 

 cilia pale greyish-ochreous. 



CAPE COLONY, Table Mountain, 2500 ft., in November (Barnai'd) ; 

 one specimen. 



DEPRESSARIA CRYPSICOSMA, n. sp. 



9. 20 mm. Head dark fuscous in-orated with white. Palpi 

 whitish, irregularly sprinkled with grey and blackish, terminal joint 

 with two bauds of blackish irroration. Thorax whitish-ochreous, 

 anterior half dark fuscous irrorated with white. Abdomen grey- 

 whitish. Forewiugs elongate, costa gently arched, apex obtuse, termen 

 rounded, rather strongly oblique ; 2 and 3 stalked ; pale yellow- 

 ochreous ; costal edge fuscous, irrorated with whitish, slightly thickened 

 posteriorly, united with a broad marginal band of fuscous suffusion 

 irrorated with whitish extending round apex and termen and continued 

 more narrowly along dorsum to before middle ; first discal stigma 

 black, distinct, a minute black dot obliquely before and above it, 

 second represented by an undefined rather dark fuscous dot on edge 

 of terminal baud : cilia light grey sprinkled with whitish. Hindwings 

 whitish-grey ; cilia grey-whitish. 



CAPE COLONY, Table Mountain, 2500 ft., in November (Barnard) ; 

 one specimen. 



