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Head and thorax olive fuscous mixed with grey ; the abdomen 

 shining grey ; pectus woolly, pinkish grey ; legs dark with the 

 joints pale. 



Expanse of wings : 34 mm. 



1 ? from Cape Town, 1911. (P. C. Keytel.) 



GEN. EULASIA, Warr. 



50. EULASIA VALIDA, spec. nov. 



Forewing : Pale canary yellow, sprinkled with fine black atoms ; 

 the lines brown ; the inner straight and inwardly oblique ; from ^ of 

 costa to -j- of inner margin ; the outer also inwardly oblique, nearly 

 straight, from a little before apex to of inner margin ; a large and 

 conspicuous oval black-brown cellspot; fringe olive brown, darkening 

 towards apex, above vein 6 preceded by a fine black line. 



Hindwing : With small black cellspot ; outer line brown, curved 

 parallel to termen ; fringe brown. 



Underside with the speckling coarser, darker, and denser ; inner 

 line of forewing hardly marked; outer lines thicker and stronger, 

 that in forewing forked above vein 5 ; fringes brown tipped with 

 vinous red. 



Head, thorax, abdomen, and legs yellow ; palpi deeper yellow ; legs 

 and venter slightly black-speckled. 



Expanse of wings : 34 mm. 



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



LISSODES, gen. nov. 



In general shape of wings and markings resembling Axiodes, Feld., 

 but distinguished by the smooth scaling, the thorax, pectus, and 

 femora likewise being wholly without the hairy vestiture of that 

 genus ; fore coxae in front with a thin ridge of scales ; palpi short 

 and stout, thickly scaled, the third segment not visible, whereas in 

 Axiodes this segment is slender and conspicuous ; tongue present ; 

 frons smooth ; antennae of $ bipectinate ; thoi'ax and abdomen of 

 more slender build ; the neuration also differs ; the cell is longer than 

 half of wing and the discocellular vertical ; vein 2 at f , 3 well before 

 end of each cell ; 5 from just above middle of discocellular, 6 from 

 upper angle; 7 absent (coincident with 8); 8,9 stalked from just 

 before end of cell ; 10, 11 stalked, 10 anastomosing for a short 

 distance with 8, 9 ; in the hindwing the costal and subcostal are 



