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row of marginal black spots; fringe very broail, oilireous fuscous, with a fiuo whitish 

 middle line and the ajiices white. 



Hiiidiriiujx : similar, their apex darker. 



Underside bright fulvous, with fuscous striatious : cell-spot, outer line, and a 

 median shade fuscous. Head, thorax, and abdomen like wings. Antennae with the 

 shaft alternate!}- black and snow-white : the ])ectinations black, dusted with white. 



? . Foif'irinqs : ochreous, covered with dense sandy brown atoms and striae : 

 costa striated with darker, and with three dark spots at one-third, one-half, and 

 two-thirds, from which the three transverse lines rise : these are brown, curved and 

 waved ; a dark cell-spot and row of black marginal dots ; fringe concolorous. 



JlinJ/riiiyx : similar. 



Underside pale. Head, thorax, and abdomen concolorous. 



Expanse of wings : 6, 22 mm.; ? , 20 mm. 



Two ? ? from Dar-es-Salaam, German E. Africa : 1 J from llustenburg, 

 Transvaal, September and October 1894 (Ayres). 



Subfamily EXNOMINAE. 

 Gonophaga gen. uov. 



?. Foreicings : with costa nearly straight ; apex produced, acute ; hindmargiu 

 strongly angled at vein 4, concave and subcrennlate abnve, oblinuc lielow: anal 

 angle obtuse ; inner margin straight. 



lliiidicings : truncate at apex : hindmargiu with ])romincnt teeth at veins 4 

 and 7, deeply excised between, with a smaller tooth at vein 6 ; anal angle square. 



Antennae in ? simple ; palpi porrect, stout ; tongue and frenulum present ; 

 legs long. 



Jt'iuiratio/i : as in ^In/soi/raj-///': Warr., but in the forewings 10 and 11 are 

 coincident throughout. 



Type : Gonophaya subptdckra sj). nov. 



01. Gonophaga subpulchra sp. nov. 



Forewings: fawn-colour, reddish-tinged towards hindmargiu and sjieckled 

 throughout with black scales ; first line hardly marked except by a few black scales; 

 second double, from middle of inner margin towards ajjcx, retracted above vein to 

 costa and there obscure ; ihe inner arm red-brown, slightly bent on submediau fold ; 

 the outer finer, marked by black dots on veins ; faint traces of a submarginal line, 

 with dark dots between the veins ; cell-s]iot brown, with a jialo centre: fringe red- 

 brown. 



Jlindicings : with a thick red-brown autemedian line, followed by the cell-spot ; 

 a postmedian row of black dots on veins ; a submarginal straight rufous line, 

 externally edge<l with paler. 



Underside : basal area ochreous, tinged with brownish and densely speckled 

 with black; a black streak from cell-spot to inner margin; nuirginal half red-brown ; 

 the submarginal line marked by whitish spots ; ape.x of forewings with a large 

 white blotch : a row of black marginal spots at base of fringe. Head, thorax, and 

 abdomen above concolorous with wings ; abdomen beneath and legs pale ochreous, 

 speckled with dark. 



Expanse of wings : 48 mm. 



One ? from Mackay, Queensland. 



