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CAPE COLONY, Hottentot-Holland Mountains, 4000 ft. (Barnard) ; 

 two specimens. 



PROTOTHEORA QUADRICOBNIS, n. sp. 



^ . 18 mm. Head, palpi, and thorax fuscous speckled with whitish, 

 apex of thoracic crest dark fuscous. Abdomen grey, segmental margins 

 mixed with whitish. Forewiugs fuscous ; a slender irregular sinuate 

 white median streak from base to beyond cell, upper edge with three 

 subtriangular sinuations filled with blackish, lower edge shortly marked 

 with blackish, alternating with these and at extremity ; undefined 

 blotches of dark fuscous irroration on costa at base, before and beyond 

 middle, and towards apex ; some whitish irroration from extremity of 

 streak to costa before apex, followed by some dark fuscous suffusion : 

 cilia grey. Hindwings grey; cilia pale grey. Genitalia of J (described 

 from drawings, the abdomen of the single specimen having been removed 

 and retained in South African Museum) ; uncus forming two long 

 slender strongly curved converging spine -like processes, base between 

 them wide, dilated, with a prominence beneath ; gnathos forming two 

 long dowucurved diverging stout acute hooked processes ; valvae long, 

 slender, attenuated towards apex and slightly hooked, clothed with 

 short hairs. 



CAPE COLONY, Capetown (Barnard) ; one specimen. 



GEN. METATHEOKA Meyr. 



This genus, based on a species from Natal, paraclilora Meyr., is 

 distinguishable from Prototheora by the fringe of projecting hair-scales 

 on anterior legs beneath. 



METATHEOKA CORVIFERA, n. sp. 



22-23 mm. Head, palpi, and thorax dark fuscous, speckled 

 with whitish, palpi somewhat longer than in petrosema . Abdomen 

 rather dark fuscous. Forewings fuscous mixed with dark fuscous, with 

 scanty whitish speckling indicating irregular undefined marbliugs; 

 cilia fuscous, with a subbasal line of whitish speckling. Hindwiugs 

 and cilia rather dark grey. Geuitalia of <$ ; uncus forming two long 

 slender spreading curved spine-like processes ; gnathos forming two 

 broad laterally compressed acute-pointed moderate projections, serrate 

 on dorsal edge, diverging, and with tips curved outwards ; valvae long, 

 slender, clothed with moderate hairs. 



CAPE COLONY, Table Mountain, in February (Barnard) ; five 

 specimens. 



