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and slightly wavy ; second line at five-sixths, blackish, evenly concave outwards, 

 followed by a pale whitish line which expands along costa to apex ; marginal space 

 filled in witii chocolate-brown and with a row of small black marginal dots ; fringe 

 reddish, with a fine pale basal line ; cell-spot blackish. 



f//n(/iri»ffs : whitish, rather glossy, with a dark cell-spot, and faint sinuous line 

 from beyond middle of costa to inner margin above anal angle ; a marginal row of 

 black spots ; fringe whitish, tinged with reddish towards apex. 



Head, thorax, and abdomen eoneolorons with forewings. Underside whitish; 

 forewings with some dark scales in the cell, and with the veins pale over the 

 chocolate marginal space : liindwings with dark cell-spot, a small spot beyond it, 

 another on c()sta at beginning of the sinuous line, and a short mark below the first 

 median within the sinnous line. 



Expanse of wings : 24 mm. 



One S from Weenen, Natal. 



Sphinctocera gen. nov. 



Forewings : with costa straight ; apex rectangular : hindniargin vertical above, 

 oblique below the middle. 



Hlndicings : broad, with hindmargin well curved and both angles rounded. 



Ocelli present : tongue fairly developed : labial jialpi long, rostriform, decum- 

 bent, thickly scaled, the third joint not distinguishable from the second : maxillary 

 palpi minute, filiform ; forehead with diffuse tnft of hairs ; antennae in 6 thick, 

 lamellate, somewhat flattened ; the basal joint long and thick, the shaft articulated 

 to it, and bearing a small tooth on the upj)erside at a distance equal to the length 

 of the basal joint. 



Neuration : forewings, cell half as long as wing ; the discocellular angulated ; 

 first median at three-fourths, second at five-sixths ; third and lower radial close 

 together from lower angle of cell ; upper radial and last subcostal from upper angle : 

 third and fourth subcostals shortly stalked out of the fifth : first and second free. 

 Hindwiugs with the two subcostals shortly stalked, the first anastomosing shortly 

 with the costal. 



Type : Sphinctocera crassisf/utana sp. nov. 



304. Sphinctocera crassisquama sp. nov. 



Forewings : glossy dark grey, the scales coarse and l)road, dark grey with pale 

 tips : first line at one-fourth, bent in middle, diffuse, dull red ; second line at three- 

 fourths, parallel to hindmargin, dull red, with a whitish dash on costa and a few 

 white scales above inner margin ; cell-spot dull whitish ; the whole central area is 

 slightly sprinkled with reddish scales ; marginal area and fringes wholly dark grey. 



llimhring.'i : dull oclireons whitisli, with dark grey fringe and a dark discal spot; 

 towards the hindmargin tlie wing is dusted with greyish, and there is a faint trace of 

 a paler curved submarginal line. 



Head, thorax, and patagia dark grey, with a sprinkling of red scales; abdomen 

 greased, jirobably }>ale like the hindwiugs. Underside dingy fuscous grey, the hind- 

 wings more ochreous : outer line of forewings pale, of liindwings reddish edged with 

 pale. 



Expanse of wings : 20 mm. 



One <f from Weenen, Natal. 



