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much paler yellowisli brown ; antennae pale yellow; fore winy- above 

 dark fuscous with two short whitish streaks at base, an indistinct 

 pale dot with blackish ring at end of cell and an oblique dentate 

 blackish line from apex to hind margin beyond middle ; this line rat her 

 broadly edged with white on inner side from apex to vein 5 or 4 ; 

 terminal area speckled with whitish scales ; hind wing pale greyish, 

 darker in terminal area, especially at apex and toriius. Length of fore 

 wing 10 mm., expans. 23 mm. 



Cape Colony : Kimberley. S. African Museum. 



The smallest known species of the genus Beralade ; verv distinct 

 but undoubtedly allied to B. Levenna and Mat-dial/!. Eves hairv. 



GEN. BOMBYCOPSIS, Feld. 

 BOMBYCOPSIS CAPICOLA, n. sp. 



Head, thorax and abdomen greyish yellow brown, abdomen hardly 

 paler ; fore wing above from base to beyond the middle yellowish 

 brown with the antemedial line obsolete and the discal line fuscous 

 but very indistinct and narrow, nearly straight ; post discal area paler, 

 greyish, clothed with pale feathered scales and marked with an 

 irregular series of dark streaks between the veins, ending in a darker 

 point or streak at hind margin ; all the veins distinct yellowish ; hind 

 wing greyish yellow, uuicolorous in the male, marked with a diffused 

 median darker fascia in the female ; both wings below yellowish with 

 the veins a little darker and very distinct in the female. Length of 

 fore wing 15-20 mm., expans. 36-46 mm. 



Cape Colony. S. African Museum. 



Allied to B. bipars, Walk., and metallicus, Dist. ; differing from both 

 in having the transverse lines of fore wing nearly obsolete and very 

 narrow. The eyes are clothed with long hairs. 



GEN. GLOCIA, Saalm. 



STRAMINEA, 11. Sp. 



c . .Pale stramineous, slightly sericeous; antennae blackish with 

 long ferruginous branches ; eyes hairy, bordered with black hairs ; 

 tibiae and tarsi brownish ; wings above unicolorous without markings ; 

 fore wing below infuscated in the cell, at middle of costal margin and 

 at base of the areas 3 and 4 ; area 5 nearly white. Length of fore 

 wing 18-19 mm., expans. 40 mm. 



South Africa. S. African Museum and State Museum, Stockholm. 



