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which end in strong teeth ; an oblique black dash from subapical 

 lunule to vein 6, the apex itself pale grey ; fringe dark grey with 

 base white between the veins. 



Hindwing : Dull fulvous grey, crossed by a paler sinuous 

 outer line ; fringe whitish, thickly mottled with fuscous beyond 

 veins. 



Underside grey, darker in forewing ; costal half of each wing 

 paler than inner half, and speckled with dark. 



Head, thorax, and abdomen dark and light grey intermixed ; 

 dorsum darker with pale segmental belts. 



Expanse of wings, 32 mm. 



1 $ from Cape Town, 1901. 



FAMILY PYEALIDID^E. 



SUB-FAMILY EPIPASCHIAN^E. 



GEN. ISOLOPHA, Hmps. 



14. ISOLOPHA ALBICRISTATA, spec. nov. 



Forewing : Grey, dusted and tinged with dark grey ; veins below 

 costa finely blackish ; the veins beyond cell thickly black, inter- 

 rupted by a broad slightly paler band, incurved below middle, 

 following a darker shade similarly curved ; base of submedian 

 interval black, finely underlined with white along vein 1, limited 

 by an oblique white band from median vein to submedian fold, 

 where it ends in a raised tuft of white scales edged with black, 

 connected by white scaling with a second similar tuft lying below 

 the base of vein 1 ; intervals before termen marked with black 

 specks ; fringe blackish fuscous. 



Hindwing: Dull white, with a blackish grey broad terminal border, 

 preceded by a curved dark somewhat dentate outer line. 



Underside with the dark markings shown. 



Head and thorax fuscous grey ; abdomen dirty whitish speckled 

 with pale and dark grey ; dorsum paler, especially at base, rather 

 glossy ; small tufts on metathorax black. 



Expanse of wings, 36 mm. 



1 $ , without locality label, from South Africa. 



Eef erred provisionally to Isoloplia, Hmps., as being the only 

 genus in the Epipaschiana with porrect palpi. 



