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MACROTINACTIS, n. g. 



Forehead with slightly projecting scales ; ocelli obsolete. Labia 

 palpi moderately long, straight, ascending, with appressed scales, 

 terminal joint nearly as long as second, hardly pointed. Forewings 

 bifid, cleft from near middle ; 2 almost connate with 4, 3 and 4 

 stalked, 5 and 6 very short, 7 from below angle, 9 and 10 absent, 

 11 approximated to 8 at base. Hindwings trifid, third segment 

 with tuft of black scales in dorsal cilia ; 3 absent, 5 and 6 obsolete, 

 7 to apex. 



Type stenodactylaFlQbch. (Oxyptilus stenodactylus Fletch., Entom., 

 1911, 282). An example from Mfongosi, Zululand, in May (Jones) 

 appears to agree sufficiently with the original description, except 

 that the terrnen of second segment of forewings is concave, its 

 apex falcate, as in Hampson's figure of Titanoptilus, to which 

 genus there is undoubted relationship ; the two genera constitute a 

 special line of development from Platyptilia, quite unconnected 

 with Oxyptilus. 



GEN. AGDISTIS, Hiibn. 

 AGDISTIS INPUMATA, n. sp. 



$ . 23-24 mm. Head whitish mixed with fuscous, face obtusely 

 prominent, Palpi white sprinkled with pale grey. Thorax whitish 

 sprinkled with fuscous. Abdomen fuscous mixed with whitish. 

 Forewings with apex tolerably pointed, termen slightly rounded, 

 rather strongly oblique ; light greyish-ochreous, slightly sprinkled 

 with whitish, with scattered black scales ; triangular area purplish- 

 grey irrorated with blackish, contrasting strongly with light ground 

 colour, with a small blackish spot at its inverted apex, an elongate 

 one beneath its lower margin beyond middle, and a small one be- 

 tween this and first : cilia whitish-ochreous, with dark fuscous spots 

 at apex and tornus, and two on costa. Hindwings grey, irrorated 

 with dark fuscous towards lower part of termen ; cilia whitish- 

 fuscous, with fuscous median shade. 



ZULULAND, Mfongosi, in May (W. E. Jones) ; three specimens. 



CAKPOSINID^E. 



GEN. CAEPOSINA, Herr.-Sch. 



CARPOSINA SITUEGA, n. sp. 



$ . 19 mm. Head, thorax, and abdomen pale whitish-ochreous. 

 Palpi 4, ochreous-whitish, partially sprinkled with dark fuscous. 



