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or less indicated slender irregular black streak along lower margin of 

 cell ; an irregular transverse black discal mark or line of scales on 

 end of cell ; irregular small black dots along posterior part of costa 

 and termen : cilia whitish-grey. Hindwings with all veins separate ; 

 grey, paler and thinly haired anteriorly ; cilia whitish-grey. 



CAPE COLONY, Capetown, in August (E. M. Lightfoot) ; two 

 specimens. 



CEEOMITIA SOMPHODES, n. sp. 



$ . 20-22 mm. Head light brownish -ochreous, back of crown 

 whitish, face centrally whitish. Labial palpi short, white, maxillary 

 rather longer. Antennae whitish, tinged with fuscous towards base. 

 Thorax pale brownish mixed with whitish. Abdomen whitish-grey, 

 anal tuft ochreous-whitish. Forewings elongate, rather narrow, 

 posteriorly slightly dilated, costa moderately arched, apex obtuse, 

 terrnen very obliquely rounded ; all veins separate ; pale fuscous, 

 mixed with whitish, irregularly strewn with black scales between 

 veins ; a round blackish dot on lower angle of cell ; some rather 

 large blackish dots on posterior half of costa and termen : cilia pale 

 fuscous mixed with whitish. Hindwings pale whitish -fuscous, 

 thinly haired ; cilia concolorous. 



ZULULAND, Mfongosi, in March and April (W. E. Jones) ; four 

 specimens. 



