//</ /'<)// x , ; /' xnntr Smith Aj'nctni !{>/, 'rc<T<t . ~2 11 



well before tingle of cell but nearer to 1 than 2, vein 5 from nearer to 



6 than 4, vein 6 from upper angle of cell, 7, 8, 9, 10 stalked, 11 free, 



7 from 8 beyond 10. Hind wing with vein la to anal angle, 16 to an 

 tingle on termen, Ic rather distinct, weaker at base, 2-4 nearly as in 

 fore whig, 5 nearer to 6 than 4 and slightly weaker than the other 

 veins, 6 and 7 very briefly stalked, vein 8 free at base, then anasto- 

 mosing with the cell to beyond middle as in the genus PolelassotJi i/s, 

 Janse. 



A very peculiar genus, which does not fit well in any of the hitherto 

 proposed families of moths, but may provisionally be considered as an 

 aberrant genus of the Notodoutidae. 



Some years ago I received specimens from Mr. A. J. T. Jaiise in 

 Pretoria. The genus not being mentioned in his newly-published 

 excellent monograph of the South African Notodontidae, leads me to 

 suppose that he has considered the genus as foreign to the family. 



It is often rather difficult to decide if the vein Ic of hind wing is 

 present or not. In my opinion the vein Ic must be considered as 

 present in PurapJilebs. If so the genus, according to Hampson's 

 newly-published key to the families of Lepidoptera, would belong to 

 the Chrysopolomidae (Ectropidae),* with which it has no affinities 

 at all. 



PARAPHLEBS SINGULARIS, n. sp. 



Head and thorax yellowish, more or less densely clothed with grey 

 and blackish hairs ; abdomen and tarsi ochraceous yellow ; femora 

 and tibiae with long, mostly greyish hairs ; anal tuft darker in the 

 female, with densely-packed greyish scales in the middle. Fore wing 

 greyish variegated with fuscous, brown and pale yellow ; basal area to 

 antemedial line fuscous brown with convex distal margin, a paler 

 stripe from base below the median vein and vein 2 nearly to termen 

 partly pale yellow, partly brownish yellow, composed as it were of 

 differently coloured spots ; medial area proxirnally grey, distally 

 brownish, a rather obscure brownish discal spot ; postmedial line 

 waved, blackish ; terminal area fuscous with yellowish terminal spots 

 between the veins; ciliae broad, yellowish with dark spots between 

 the veins. Hind wing fuscous, slightly suffused with black at tornus ; 

 ciliae as in fore wing. Wings below yellowish more or less suffused 

 with fuscous. Expans. 29-31 mm. 



Transvaal : Barberton and Potgietersrust. S. African Museum . 



* I cannot agree with Sir G. F. Hampson in rejecting old family names 

 because they are not taken from the oldest genus at present included in the 

 family. The law of priority seems to require that the oldest name of families 

 be used as well as of genera and species. 



