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tinged with whitish-grey ; whole surface irregularly strewn with 

 small bluish-leaden-metallic spots : cilia whitish-ochreous, base 

 ochreous-yellow. Hindwings dark grey ; cilia whitish-ochreous, 

 with grey subbasal shade. 



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



EUCOSMID^ 



GEN. EUCOSMA, Hiibn. 

 EUCOSMA SICCESCENS, n. sp. 



$ . 20 mm. Head ochreous-whitish. Palpi whitish, somewhat 

 sprinkled with dark fuscous. Thorax whitish, patagia sprinkled with 

 brownish. Abdomen whitish sprinkled with grey. Forewings 

 elongate, somewhat narrow, posteriorly slightly dilated, costa 

 slightly arched, without fold, apex obtuse, term en hardly rounded, 

 rather oblique; pale brownish, irregularly sprinkled and strigulated 

 with dark fuscous ; costa with obscure whitish strigulae alternating 

 with dark fuscous irroration ; posterior third of wing with suffused 

 irregular partially confluent silvery-whitish striae, one immediately 

 before termen more distinct and preceded in ocellus by three elongate 

 black dots : cilia white irrorated with dark fuscous. Hind-wings with 3 

 and 4 stalked ; rather dark grey ; cilia whitish irrorated with fuscous. 



BUSHMANLAND, Jackals Water (E. M. Lightfoot) ; one specimen. 



EUCOSMA GALACTITIS, n. sp. 



3 9 . 17-18 mm. Head white. Palpi white, second joint with 

 long rough projecting scales, with a grey band. Antenna? in 3 

 simple. Thorax grey mixed with dark fuscous and whitish. Fore- 

 wings elongate, posteriorly somewhat dilated, costa in $ gently, in 

 5 moderately arched, in $ without fold, apex obtuse, termen 

 sinuate in middle, somewhat oblique ; fuscous mixed with brown and 

 dark fuscous ; costal edge dark fuscous with pairs of whitish strigulae, 

 whence arise oblique dark leaden strigse not reaching half across 

 wing ; an irregular subquadrate white blotch occupying median 

 third of dorsum and reaching more than half across wing, including 

 two or three greyish dots or marks, dorsal edge between this and 

 base irregularly marked with whitish ; an irregular white tornal blotch 

 representing ocellus, containing two black dots near middle of 

 posterior edge and apex, and surmounted by a small irregular 

 blackish spot : cilia leaden-fuscous mixed with dark fuscous, with 



