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joint very long, straight, densely rough-scaled above and with very 

 long rough projecting scales beneath, terminal joint directed 

 obliquely sideways, shorter than second, slender, acute. Maxillary 

 palpi minute, filiform, appressed to tongue. Posterior tibiae smooth- 

 scaled. Forewings with 2 and 3 stalked from angle, 7 and 8 stalked, 

 7 to apex, 11 from middle. Hindwings 1, trapezoidal, termen 

 slightly sinuate beneath apex, cilia 1 ; 4 absent, 5 somewhat approxi- 

 mated to 3, 6 and 7 stalked. 

 A development of Trichotaplic. 



MACHLOTKICHA C^CA, n. sp. 



? . 14 mm. Head, palpi, and thorax dark grey finely sprinkled 

 with whitish, terminal joint of palpi whitish. Abdomen grey. 

 Forewings elongate, costa anteriorly moderately, posteriorly slightly 

 arched, apex obtuse, terrnen straight, oblique ; grey irrorated with 

 blackish, finely sprinkled with whitish ; a patch of darker suffusion 

 in disc before middle, and the whitish irroration appears to form a 

 transverse shade at , angulated outwards in middle and inwards 

 above this, but no denned markings : cilia dark fuscous sprinkled 

 with whitish. Hindwings grey ; cilia light greyish. 



ZULULAND, Mfongosi, in May (W. E. Jones) ; one specimen. 



XYLOBYCTOm 



GEN. ODITES, Wals. 

 ODITES CBOCOTA, n. sp. 



$ . 21 mm. Head and thorax whitish-yellowish. Palpi yellow- 

 whitish, basal half of second joint tinged with ochreous. Abdomen 

 ochreous-whitish. Forewings elongate, rather narrow, costa gently 

 arched, apex obtuse, termen slightly rounded, oblique ; whitish- 

 yellowish ; second discal stigma blackish : cilia whitish-yellowish. 

 Hindwings and cilia whitish, 



ZULULAND, Mfongosi, in October (W. E. Jones) ; one specimen. 

 Might readily be overlooked for Cryptolccliia stramindla. 



ODITES INSONS, n. sp. 



$ . 18 mm. Wholly ochreous-whitish. (Palpi broken.) Fore- 

 wings elongate, costa moderately arched, apex obtuse, termen 

 slightly rounded, oblique. 



ZULULAND, Mfongosi, in April (W. E. Jones) ; one specimen. 



