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excurved above and below median vein ; tbe outer curved mainly 

 parallel to termen, the teeth black tipped with white, the line edged 

 with white at costa and inner margin ; a large black cellspot ; beyond 

 the outer line the dark grey suffusion extends triangularly to costa 

 above vein 6 ; a slight brown crenulate terminal line ; fringe with 

 pale ochreous basal line and dark brown tips. 



Hindwing : Luteous whitish, minutely dark dusted, brownish 

 ochreous along termen ; a dark cellspot and crenulate curved outer 

 line ; fringe dark grey. 



Underside pale shining yellowish grey, with minute dark dusting ; 

 both wings with large black cellspots and black outer lines ; costa of 

 forewing rufous. 



Head, thorax, and abdomen dark grey. 



Expanse of wings : 44 mm. 



1 ? from Seapoint, Cape Town, June, 1877. (E. Trimen.) 



GEN. DYSCIA, Hbn. 



42. DYSCIA UNILINEATA, spec. nov. 



Forewing : Wood brown, tinged and heavily striated with blackish 

 from base as far as submarginal line, which is lunulate outwards 

 between the veins and indented on submedian fold, the lunules 

 below middle and that between 6 and 7 blacker ; a slight black cell- 

 spot ; terminal area and fringe paler, with fewer striae ; costa with 

 distinct black striations. 



Hindwing : Paler, with fewer striae ; a black cellspot ; outer line 

 marked by veindots only. 



Underside paler, the hindwing whitish and more distinctly speckled 

 than the forewing, where the striae are confined chiefly to the costal 

 area; both wings with distinct black cellspots. 



Head, thorax, and abdomen brownish speckled with dark. 



Expanse of wings : 44 mm. 



1 $ from Cape Town, 1876. (C. A. Fairbridge.) 



SUB-FAMILY FIDONIINAE. 



GEN. LOXOPOEA, gen. nov. 



Tongue very slight ; frons slightly rounded ; palpi very short, 

 porrect, not reaching in front of face ; antennae of $ with long 

 slender fascicles of cilia ; thorax and abdomen without crests ; fore- 



