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brown lines, the second scarcely beyond the middle; a small white 

 spot instead of a black dot on the discocellulars. Both wings beneath 

 glossy pale grey, with black discal dot and very faint suggestions of 

 fairly straight antemedian and postniedian line, a slightly paler band 

 distally to the latter ; termen with elongate black interneural marks. 



Cape, Cape Town, May, 1913, and December, 1911 (P. C. Keytel), 

 type (J and a ? in coll. S. Afr. Mus. ; Kalk Bay, June, 1904 

 (Davidson), paratype in coll. L. B. Prout. 



Certainly allied to strigata Warr., but with very different facies, 

 superficially recalling a Gnophos ; the markings bear also a striking 

 resemblance to those of the North American Ixala desperaria Hulst, 

 and the face and palpus may demand the removal of both strigata and 

 pseudognophos to Hulst's genus, if that is tenable. The group (the 

 genus Deilinia of Meyrick and Hampsou) is almost cosmopolitan, 

 though nowhere very rich in species. 



