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SUB-FAMILY ASCOTIN^. 



GEN. ALOIS, Curt. 



9. ALCIS AFRICAN A, spec. nov. 



Forewing : Ochreous washed with pinkish brown and thickly 

 striated with dark brown ; the shading dark brown ; the lines 

 black ; inner line thick, outwardly toothed on the veins, vertical 

 to submedian fold, there bent and incurved basevvards ; preceded 

 by a dark brown shade ; outer line from costa at f to middle of 

 inner margin, obliquely curved outwards to vein 5, then inwards 

 to submedian fold, then concave inwards ; a brown median line 

 more or less parallel to outer line, containing within its angle a 

 brown black-edged cell ring ; submarginal line lunulate dentate, 

 the space between it and the outer line dark brown, diffused to 

 termeu between veins 5 and 6, and below 4 with slight paler spaces 

 at inner margin ; a black terminal festoon ; fringe pale brown, varied 

 with darker brown. 



Hindwing : With blackish inner and median lines ; the inner 

 touching the black cellspot ; the median followed by a thick brown 

 shade ; subterminal line preceded by a thick black shade ; termen 

 strongly dentate, with black festoon. 



Underside uniform greyish ochreous, thickly striated with fuscous, 

 as far as the diffuse thick black submarginal band; the terminal 

 area paler ochreous, especially on vein 4 of forewing, above and 

 below which the band is diffused to termen ; both wings with black 

 cellspots and terminal row of spots. 



Head, thorax, and abdomen pale brown mixed with darker brown. 



Expanse of wings, 38 mm. 



1 ? from South Africa. 



GEN. MYRIOBLEPHAEA, Warr. 



10. MYEIOBLEPHARA SUBLIMBATA, spec. nov. 



Forewing : Whitish washed with pale olive brown and speckled 

 with black ; the veins yellowish ; the centre of the two folds, the 

 inner margin, and the subterminal line white; inner line at ^, bent 

 in middle, marked by rather large black spots on median and sub- 

 median veins ; outer line blurred, lunulate dentate, from i of costa 

 sinuate to f of inner margin ; a black ocelloid spot at end of cell ; 

 submarginal line irregularly dentate, preceded by a thick black 

 shade interrupted between veins 3 and 4 by a white spot ; terminal 



