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grey suffused with white. Hindwings prismatic-hyaline, with thinly 

 strewn pale grey hairs ; cilia grey-whitish. 



CAPE COLONY, Prince Albert, in June (Mrs. v. d. Bijl) ; three 

 specimens. 



CEROMITIA SPATALODES, n. sp. 



< 9 . 17-18 mm. Head whity-brownish, crown white posteriorly. 

 Palpi moderate, light greyish. Thorax whitish, patagia pale violet- 

 grey. Abdomen pale grey. Forewings elongate, costa gently arched, 

 apex obtuse, termen rounded, rather .strongly oblique ; pale shining 

 violet, obscurely mottled with grey, slightly whitish-sprinkled in disc ; 

 discal stigmata well marked, dark fuscous : cilia whitish-grey. Hind- 

 wings light prismatic grey ; cilia whitish-grey. 



CAPE COLONY, Oudebosch, 1500 ft., in January (Barnard) ; two 

 specimens. Nearest to clmnjntcllH and mitntta. 



NEPTICULIDAE. 



GEN. NEPTICULA, Heyd. 



NEPTICULA PANCONISTA, u. sp. 



<$ . 5 mm. Head light yellowish. Thorax grey-whitish irrorated 

 with blackish. Abdomen grey. Forewiugs lanceolate ; grey-whitish 

 irrorated with blackish : cilia whitish, towards base sprinkled with 

 blackish. Hindwings grey ; an expansible light yellow pencil of hairs 

 from base beneath costa ; cilia whitish-grey. 



CAPE COLONY, Capetown, in January (Barnard) ; one specimen. 

 Allied to crypsixantJia, which, however, has the head blackish. 



PROTOTHEORIDAE. 



GEN. PROTOTHEORA, Meyr. 



Head with short rough scales, posteriorly with longer rough spread- 

 ing hair-scales, face short ; ocelli small, posterior, tongue rudimentary. 

 Antennae in ^ hardly -J-, rather thick towards base, tapering, mode- 

 rately and evenly pubescent-ciliated over whole surface, in ? shorter, 

 slenderer, minutely pubescent. Mandibles more or less developed. 

 Labial palpi in $ moderately long, porrected, wholly clothed with 

 dense rough hair-scales diminishing to apex, joints concealed, in $ 

 considerably longer, similar. Maxillary palpi short, filiform, 3-jointed, 

 porrected. Thorax with large rough erect tuft of scales at posterior 



