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lis. Polystroma subspissata sp. uov. 



ForeiciiKjs : cinereous, with a slight reddish tingo; basal jjateh aud ceutral 

 fascia blackish, with some rulbns scales iutermixed ; the former bounded by two 

 curved black liues ; the latter with inner edge curved and slightly toothed on 

 submedian fold, the outer toothed below costa and angled on vein 4, below whicli it 

 is incurved ; several waved blackish lines are visible within the fascia ; cell-spot 

 dark, with rufous scales round it ; space between basal patch and centra] fascia with 

 three fine curved lines, and some rufous scales before the fascia ; beyond the fascia 

 is a rnfoiis baud with two waved dark liues ; marginal area grey and rufous, witli 

 the waved submarginal line i)aler ; a black interrupted marginal line ; fringe pale. 



Hinilwiiujs : pale grey ; the inner margin blackish ; a blackish postmedian 

 curved line, followed by a pale fascia and some dark waved lines, all more distinct 

 towards inner margin. 



Underside dull cinereous, with central fascia and cell-spots of both wings 

 darker. Head, thorax, and abdomen grey and black ; liasal segment of abdomen 

 paler ; metathorax blackish ; tuft of forewings black ; thickened scales in cell of 

 hindwings grey. 



Expanse of wings : 28 mm. 



One S from Weenen, Natal, March 1894 ; one ? marked Natal, without date. 



An obscure-looking species, recalling Hiiidentaria of Haworth. 



The ? has the pale band on each side of the central fascia narrower, witli a 

 single rufons line through it : the dark baud preceding the submarginal line is more 

 distinct, and marked with black lieneath costa and opjiosite cell ; the hindwings are 

 smoky fnscous, with the lines darker. 



Subfamily DEILINIINAE. 

 Allaxitheca gen. nov. 



Forrwiuijs : triangular, broad; costa curved throughout: apex prominent, acute ; 

 hindmargin scarcely curved; anal angle rectangular. 



IIinf/wi)i(/s : triangular; apex rounded; anal angle rectangular; hindmargin 

 slightly curved. 



Palpi porrect, upcurved, third joint sliort, jminted; antennae of d serrate, of ? 

 simple. 



Neuration : forewings, cell not half as long as wing; discocellular straight ; 

 first median at two-thirds; second a little before angle of cell; radials normal; 

 7, 8, 9 stalked from some distance before angle of cell; lu aud II coincident, anasto- 

 mosing with costal. Hindwings with first subcostal aud second median both shortly 

 before angle of cell. Forcwing of c^ without fovea; hindwing with fovea at base of 

 vein 8. 



T^'pe : Allaxitheca pHrpura.veiia Moore. 



Allied to OrtJwhrachia Warr. ; ccrlainly belonging to the Steyuniu group, not 

 to Ti'plirina. 



119. Bapta longipennis sp. uov. 



Forcivings : elongate, white, very finely ilnsted with dark atoms; the lines 

 diftnso, grey; first from costa before one-third to lU'iir middle of iiiucr margin: the 



