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be owing to the loss of the black scales ouly. The species is closely allied to 

 Jibulata Gnen. and its Indian forms, c? antennae with Hne fiiscicles of cilia ; hind 

 tibiae thickened, with a jiencil of hairs and without spurs ; ? with four spurs ; vein 

 3 before end of cell. 



116. Craspedia sanguinisecta sp. no v. 



Foi'civiiujs : greyish ochreous, smoothly scaled ; with fine darker dusting ouly 

 towards base and throughout the marginal area : costa narrowly red ; first line at 

 one-fourth, fnscous, slightly oblique inwards, and bent beneath costa ; second from 

 costa beyond middle, acutely angled on vein 0, thence oblique and irregularly 

 sinuous to middle of inner margin ; third from four-fifths of costa, bluutly angled on 

 ,vein 6, thence oblique inwards, slightly waved, to inner margin at four-fifths, 

 marked opposite the cell and ou submedian fold with blood-red ; marginal area 

 dusted with fuscous, and with an obli([uely edged darker fnscous blotch beyond angle 

 of third line ; marginal line concise, blackish ; fringe ochreous ; a grey cell-spot. 



Hindivings : with antemedian and postmedian lines only, both fuscous ; cell- 

 dot minute, deep black. 



Underside much more speckled with fuscous : the two outer lines exjiressed 

 and much more waved than above. Face and jialpi dee]i brown ; collar dull 

 ferruginous ; vertex white ; thorax and abdomen concolorous with wings. 



Expanse of wings : 26 mm. 



One ? from Weenen, Natal, March 1894. 



117. Craspedia subperlaria sp. no v. 



Forewings : white, with sparse blackish atoms ; exterior line at five-sixths, 

 pale ochreous, denticulate ; a row of black marginal spots, and a small black cell- 

 spot ; fringe white. 



Hindtvings : the same. 



Underside white, unspotted. Face and jialpi brown ; collar ferruginous ; 

 thorax and abdomen white. 



Expanse of wings : 28 mm. 



One ? from Warri, Iliver Niger, June 1896 (Dr. Roth). 



118. Craspedia sufficiens sp. nov. 



Forewings ■• whitish, sparsely dusted with dark scales ; first line at one-third, 

 nearly tonching the brown cell-spot, pale ochreous ; exterior line at five-sixths, 

 strongly denticulate ; traces of a submarginal line ; a row of round black marginal 

 dots : fringe white. 



Ilindwings : the same. 



Underside white ; basal half of forewings tinged with rufous. Face and palpi 

 black-brown ; collar ochreous ; vertex, thorax, and abdomen white. 



Expanse of wings : 26 mm. 



One c? from the Cameroons, West Africa. 



Hindmargin of hindwings slightly wavy an<l beat in the middle ; antennae 

 with long ciliatious. 



