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coarse ; the first line is beiit below costa, and being rather farther IVoni the base 

 approaches the median shade above the inner margin. Both wings are broader and 

 shorter in proportion than those of cleserta ; and the hiudwings are bulged in the 

 middle of hindmargin ; the antennae of the cJ are thicker, sitbdeutate, with denser 

 fascicles of cilia. 



Expanse of wings : 2(i mm. 



A pair from Weeuen, Natal, October 1893. 



113. Craspedia laevipennis sp. nov. 



Foreicimjs : cream-white, thickly and smoothly scaled, with very tine sparse 

 blackish atoms : costa narrowly ochreons ; the lines ochreons ; first obscure, 

 reaching inner margin nearly in middle; second at three-fonrths, waved and sinuous, 

 approaching first line on inner margin ; fringe ochreons. 



llinduiny.s : with the outer line only ; both wings with minute ochreons cell- 

 spot. 



Underside white ; costa of forewings broadly ochreons at base. Face and palpi 

 brown-black ; vertex and collar ochreons ; thorax and abdomen white. 



Expanse of wings : 20 mm. 



One cJ from the Cameroons, "West Africa. 



The wings are short and broad ; hindwings with hindmargin bluntly bent in 

 middle. 



114. Craspedia melliflua s]). nov. 



Forewings : dull yellow ; the costa narrowly pale brown ; lines pale brown ; 

 first very obscure, at one-third, wavy ; second from costa at three-fourths to inner 

 margin at two-thirds, slightly sinuous ; fringe concolorous ; cell-spot pale brown. 



Ilindwiiu/.H : with the line central ; no cell-spot. 



Underside yellowish ; forewings towards base tinged with rufous grey. Face 

 and palpi blackish ; vertex and collar pale brown ; thorax and abdomen yellow. 



Expanse of wings : 24 mm. 



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



The hindmargin of hindwings is distinctly elbowed in middle, that of forewings 

 slightly bulged. 



ll.j. Craspedia nigrinotata sp. uov. 



Forewings : whitish, densely irrorated with black scales ; costa with five black 

 spots, one close to base, second at one-fourth, third beyond middle, fourth at two- 

 thirds, fifth towards apex ; first liue from second spot, faintly ochreous, with a dot 

 on median and snbmedian ; median line curved round cell, ochreons, mixed with 

 grey scales, denticulate ; outer line evenly curved, minutely dentate, blackish ; 

 submarginal cloudy, interrupted opposite the cell and above anal angle ; a marginal 

 row of distinct black Innules ; fringe grey ; cell-spot distinct, black. 



Hindwings : similar, without first liue. 



Underside dull grej-. Face white, deep black above ; palpi blackish, vertex 

 white ; thorax and abdomen white, sj)eckled with blackish. 



Expanse of wings : J, 20 mm. ; ? , 24 mm. 



One ? , two tJ (J, from Zoniba, Upper Shird district, May 1895 (Dr. P. Reudall). 



The two (?(J are much paler than the ? : but, being both much worn, this may 



