New Species of Lepidoptera Hcteroccra. 469 



Antennae strongly pectinated to apex ; the truncate conical 

 process of frons somewhat flattened laterally. 



3. EUXOA SOEDIDA, Spec. 11OV. 



(Plate XL., fig 1.) 



Forewing : Sordid fuscous, darkest in cell ; lines black with pale 

 edging ; placed much as in the previous species contingent ; but the 

 outer line is crenulate and well outcurved beyond cell, the reniform 

 being followed by a pale space ; cell and stigmata as in contingens, 

 but much more obscure ; veins black lined with pale ; terminal area 

 is dark fuscous, darker before the obscure subterminal line, which 

 preceded by obscure wedge-shaped marks ; fringe fuscous with a 

 pale line at base. 



Hindwincj : Dirty whitish, with costa and apex darker ; all the 

 veins dark. 



Underside of forewing dull dirty fuscous ; of hind wing whitish 

 with the costal area dark grey. 



Head and thorax brownish grey ; the abdomen paler grey ; palpi 

 externally dark fuscous, the terminal segment ochreous. 



Expanse of wings : 35 mm. 



1 $ from Ookiep, Namaqualancl, April, 1887. (G. Worden.) 



SUB-FAMILY CUCULLIANAE. 



GEN. EHIZOTYPE, Hmps. 



i. EHIZOTYPE PALLIATA, spec. nov. 

 (Plate XL., fig. 2.) 



Foreiving : Purplish black in basal two-thirds and again narrowly 

 beyond subterminal line, the intervening area reddish fawn colour ; 

 inner margin of basal area pale ochreous with a thick black streak 

 above it ; inner and outer lines double, filled in with ochreous; the 

 inner marked on costa by an outwardly oblique whitish mark above 

 orbicular, then obscure and incurved before orbicular stigma to 

 median vein, then distinct, oblique outwards and sharply angled 

 inwards below vein 1 ; outer from an inwardly oblique white mark 

 above reniform stigma, bent outwards to apex of reniform, outwardly 

 oblique to vein 5, then inwardly and slightly waved ; orbicular 

 stigma oval, oblique, ochreous with dark centre ; reniform large with 



