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the distal part. Nervature darker than the membrane. The basal 

 cross-vein in the costal area vertical, directed towards the subcosta ; all 

 the other cross-veins more or less obliquely directed. The four cross- 

 veins in the radial very dark and conspicuous ; the other cross-veins 

 mostly darker than the longitudinal nervures. 



Length of body 8 mm., of forewing 12 mm., of hindwing 1O5 mm. 



One male specimen, Gt. Winterhoek Mountain at an altitude of 

 4300 ft., November, I91t>, Tulbagh, Cape. 



FIG. 5. Fore- and hindwing of Leptosialis affic<m. 



EMBIIDIXA. 

 GEN. HAPLOEMBIA. 



HAPLOEMBIA CAPENSIS n. sp. (Figs. 6 and 7.) 



. Wingless. Head brownish black, somewhat narrowed behind, 

 with almost straight lateral margins and rounded hind angles ; it is 

 about 1^ times as long as broad. Eyes rather small and inconspicuous. 

 Clypeus and labrum yellowish brown in some specimens, dark brown 

 with pale margins in others. Mandibles, except their tip, palpi and 

 antennae, yellowish brown. Antennae 12-19-jointed ; the basal joint 

 brownish black, robust, about twice as long as broad ; the second 

 joint much smaller than the first and as long as broad; the third 

 joint as broad as the second, but as long as the fii-st ; the following 

 joints longer than broad and increasing in length towards the apex of 

 the antennae. The antennae with yellowish pilosity. Prothorax 

 about half as broad as the head, brownish black, almost quadrangular, 



