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124. Leptacme malescripta sp. no v. 



Forewings. : brick-red, with extremely fine darker red dusting ; a small dark 

 cell-dot : no distinct markings, but traces of a cnrved darker red fascia parallel and 

 near to hindmargin : fringe concolorons, with a row of minute black dots at base. 



llindicings : the same : the cell-spot larger ; traces of an antemedian shade. 



Underside like upper. Face and palpi red-brown : vertex ])inkish ; thorax 

 concolorous with wings. 



Expanse of wings : 17 mm. 



One ? from Weenen, Natal, March 1895. 



125. Lycauges acuta sp. nov. 



Forewings : ochreous, sprinkled with rufous ochreons atoms, the lines rufous or 

 pale brownish ; cell-spot white, edged with rufous : first line from one-third of inner 

 margin oblique towards the cell-spot : second line a broad diffuse shade from middle 

 of inner margin to costa before apex, where it is joined to a finer line from inner 

 margin before anal angle : fringe dark rufous, with a paler basal line. 



Hindwings : with difliise central submarginal rufous shade. 



Underside j-ellow, with the rosy strignlae and Imes brighter. Face and palpi 

 brown : vertex and antennae whitish ; thorax and abdomen rufous ochreons. 



Expanse of wings : 25 mm. 



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



Distinguished by the very acute subfalcate apex and oblique hindmargin. 



126. Lycauges concurrens sp. nov. 



Forewings : bone-colour, sprinkled with fuscous atoms ; the lines dark grey and 

 verv oblique ; first curved, from one-third of costa to near base of inner marn-in : 

 median shade thick and diftuse from three-fourths of costa to before middle of inner 

 margin, towards costa recurved and faint ; outer line concise, serrate on the veins, 

 from middle of inner margin straight towards apex, recurved and faint from vein 6, 

 followed by two diffuse grey shades, which coalesce in the apex of wing : a small 

 black cell-spot ; fringe bone-colour, with darker scales intermixed : a fine dark 

 marginal line. 



Ilindivings : more suffused with rufous scales : the markings the same, without 

 first line. 



Underside similar, the base of forewings more thickly dusted with dark scales. 

 Face, palpi, and collar dark ferruginous ; vertex whitish ; thorax and abdomen 

 concolorous. 



Expanse of wings : 26 mm. 



One (? from Mpeta, Loangwa River, December 1S95 (Coryndon). 



127. Lycauges extremata sp. nov. 



Forewings: bone-colour, tinged with ochreous and dusted with fuscous ; first 

 line very faint, curved and oblique below, from lone-fourth of costa to one-fourth of 

 inner margin ; median sliade thick and dilfnse from middle of inner margin towards 

 apes, edged e.Kternally by the oblique waved outer line, both becoming obsolete before 



