494 Annals of tlie South African Mnseinn. 



44. PERUSIOPSIS VENINOTATA, spec. nov. 

 (Plate XLI., fig. 10.) 



Forcicnifj : Pale straw-colour, slightly grey-speckled along costa ; 

 inner line curved, marked only by brown dots on the subcostal, 

 median, and submedian veins and smaller dots on costa and costal 

 vein ; outer line brown and nearly straight from just before apex to 

 f of inner margin, indistinctly dentate lunulate, the teeth marked by 

 black points on the veins ; a small brown cellspot ; fringe pale 

 brown. 



Hindiuing : Faintly tinged with grey, especially terminally ; a very 

 obscure straight outer line, slightly marked on the veins ; fringe 

 grey. 



Underside yellower ; the costa of both wings with brown speck- 

 ling ; outer line marked by vein dashes in both wings. 



Head, thorax, and abdomen straw-colour ; frons and prothorax 

 slightly browned ; palpi and legs, except tarsi, brown. 



Expanse of wings : 28 mm. 



1 2 from Cape Town, September, 1891. (E. M. Lightfoot.) 



GEN. LIPOSCHEMA, gen. nov. 



Tongue present ; palpi abraded ; antennae subserrate with very 

 long cilia ; forewing with cell half as long as wing ; veins 7, 8 stalked ; 

 9 and 10 missing ; 11 running close to 12 ; hind wing with costal and 

 subcostal anastomosing for half of cell ; no radial. 



Type Liposchema bifasciata, spec. nov. 



45. LIPOSCHEMA BIFASCIATA, spec. nov. 

 (Plate XLI., fig. 9.) 



Foreiving : Ochreous whitish with a few dark speckles ; the costa 

 spotted with black ; a diffuse interrupted line of black scales near 

 base ; a median black band, somewhat excurved in upper half, 

 including a black cellspot ; a black lunulate dentate subterrninal line, 

 insinuate on each fold, the sinus beyond cell preceded by a small 

 fulvous patch ; black terminal spots ; fringe abraded. 



Hind-wing : The same ; the inner margin black speckled. 



Underside like upper but duller. 



Head and thorax ochreous ; dorsum covered with blackish scales. 



Expanse of wings : 12 mm. 



1 $ from Barberton, Transvaal, October, 1911. (H. Edwards.) 



