( 11-^ ) 



Eindnings : the same. 



Underside paler, ochreons dusted with brown ; the submarginal shade brown 

 and ranch more distinct. Face and thorax brownish grey ; palpi and antennae 

 paler : abdomen wanting. 



Expanse of wings : 20 mm. 



One ? from Natal (A. J. Spiller). 



The antennae are thick and slightly subserrate : palpi j)orrect, as long as io 

 Rhinorfia Gnen., to which genus, in the absence of the (J, it may be provisionally 

 referred. 



2(i4. Semiothisa parallacta sp. nov. 



Forewings : sandy ochreous, thickly dusted with olive-fuscous, and with a 

 darker tint towards hindmargin : costa dotted with lilack, and with a black spot at 

 origin of inner and outer lines, and two more before apex : lines olive-fnscons, all 

 angnlated below costa, then oblique and parallel to hindmargin, at one-fourth, one- 

 half, and three-fonrths respectively : the onter line more strongly angled beyond 

 cell, and marked with blackish above and below the angle, the angle itself partially 

 obliterated by a pale streak towards apex ; submarginal line waved, indistinct ; a 

 line of brown dashes along hindmargin between the veins, which are paler : cell-spot 

 faint, brown : fringe ochreous grey, with a paler basal line. 



Ilindwings : with antemedian line curved round the black cell-spot, wavy post- 

 median line, and two submarginal dark shades, the inner one with some black scales 

 or spots upon it. 



Underside straw-colonr, thickly mottled with brown ; the veins and costa yellow, 

 the latter striped with black ; forewings with an interrupted brown marginal fascia: 

 lines brown, intcrrnpted. Head and thorax like wings ; abdomen paler ochreous. 



Expanse of wings : 27 mm. 



One i from Zomba, Upper Shire River, 3000 feet, December 1S95 (Dr. P. 

 Kendall). 



Hindmargin of forewings entire, of hindwings bluntly toothed. 



265. Tephrina deerraria Wlk. ab. (?) dissocia uov. 



All the markings much less varied and distinct than in the type ; the outer line 

 less sinuous ; the marginal area beyond it uniformly fuscous ; the two inner lines 

 obscnre, and often obsolete. 



One cJ, two ? ? , from Weenen, Natal, January to March 1S94. 



A much neater-looking form than the type, and possibly distinct. 



2(iii. Tephrina furcata sj). nov. 



(J. Foi-ewings : sandy ochreous, dusted with darker; the three lines oblique,, 

 and distinct only towards inner margin, at one-fourth, one-half, and three-fourths 

 respectively ; the first and third brown towards inner margin, the first edged 

 internally, and the third externally, with i>aler : the middle line diffuse, dark 

 ochreous ; the outer line is bent before apex and retracted to costa, -the angle 

 marked by two small black spots, and throwing oft' to hindmargin below apex a pale 

 oblique streak ; the onter line is followed by a darker ochreous shade, edged by the 

 obscurely paler nearly straight submarginal line : fringe concolorons ; the marginal 

 line finely brown, with darker dots at ends oi' veins. 



