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tinged with ferruginous : cilia concolorous. Hindwiugs and cilia 

 pale yellow-ochreous. 



BECHUAN ALAND, G-aberoues (Miss Marshall) ; one specimen. 



Gen. CRYPTOLECHIA Zell. 



CRYPTOLECHIA AMMOPLEURA, n. sp. 



9 . 33-34 mm. Head and thorax brownish, pale- speckled, side- 

 tufts of crown raised and connivent. Palpi pale rosy-pink speckled 

 with fuscous. Abdomen brown-whitish. Forewings suboblong, pos- 

 teriorly rather dilated, costa gently arched, apex obtuse, termen nearly 

 straight, little oblique ; light grey-brownish, with very obscure 

 irregular transverse striation of purple-fuscous speckling ; discal 

 stigmata represented by small faint cloudy spots of similar speckling ; 

 costal edge sometimes tinged with pale rosy-pink : cilia pale brownish- 

 grey, basal half speckled with purplish-fuscous. Hindwings and cilia 

 ochreous-whitish, cilia with very faint rosy tinge. 



CAPE COLONY, Capetown, two specimens, bred from larvae feeding 

 in base of receptacle of Protea mellifera (Proteaceae) , pupa stated to 

 be like that of Lycaena in shape and attachment. Pupa-case sent, but 

 broken in transit ; apparently pupa sat erect on truncate abdomen (as 

 in several other genera of the Depressariad group) ; surface of pupa- 

 skin curiously freckled with very numerous small groups of minute 

 papillae. 



BEIAEOSTOMA, n. g. 



Head with appressed scales ; ocelli posterior ; tongue developed. 

 Antennae -|, basal joint moderate, with pecten. Labial palpi extremely 

 long, straight, porrected, second joint very long, expanded with long- 

 rough projecting scales above and beneath, terminal joint short, 

 slender, pointed. Maxillary palpi rudimentary. Posterior tibiae 

 clothed with hairs above. Forewiugs with 16 furcate, 2 from towards 

 angle, 7 and 8 stalked, 7 to costa, 11 from somewhat before middle. 

 Hindwings 1, elongate-ovate, pointed, cilia ] ; 3 and 4 connate, 5-7 

 parallel. 



Perhaps near Diocosma. 



BRIAROSTOMA PYRRHOPSAMMA, n. sp. 



9. 19 mm. Head and thorax whitish-ochreous faintly rosy- 

 tinged. Palpi ochreous-whitish tinged with rosy, irrorated with dark 

 fuscous. Forewings elongate, costa moderately arched, apex tolerably 



