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The obsolesceuce of vein 7 occurs also in Copkophlehia Warr. in the Ennominae^ 

 and in lliixlomophriKht. in the Fidoiiiinae ; but the present species cannot be referred 

 to either of tliem. 



85. Phrudochorda fiiscimargo sj). uov. 



Forewings : pale yellow ; costa deeper yellow, with clondy brown sj>ecks ; first 

 line at one-fourth, oblique inwards, angled on the subcostal vein, marked by three 

 brown spots, separated by the median and snbmedian veins ; outer line from just 

 before apex to three-fourths of inner margin, strongly waved; marginal area grey- 

 brown, with darker brown striae ; fringe brown ; a faint brown cell-spot. 



HindwiiK/s : without first line ; the cell-spot blackish, the yellow ground-colour 

 more dusted with black atoms. 



Underside paler ; costa of hindwings and cull of forewings with brown .sufiTusion. 

 Face, palpi, and forelegs brown-red ; vertex and thorax yellow ; collar orange ; 

 abdomen yellow marked with brown. 



Expanse of wings : 40 mm. 



One (S from Mooi River, Natal. 



86. Prionia haematopis sj). nov. 



Forewings : greyish pink, thickly irrorated with very fine deep red atoms, which 

 form a diffuse cloud in tiie cell and a slight one on hindmargin below apex; the two 

 lines deep red, placed much as in obliqiiilincata Warr.; first from a red blotch on 

 costa at two-fifths, oblique to one-third of inner margin ; second from coata at 

 four-fifths, acutely angled close before hindmargin, then oblique to four-fifths of 

 inner margin : fringe reddish, brownish bej'oud the red marginal spot. 



llindwirxjs : with only the inner-marginal third of the same colour as forewings, 

 with a short bright red line ; the rest of wing yellow. 



Underside dark yellow, Irregidarly washed with orange-red : a slight dark 

 cell-mark on forewings. Head, thorax, and abdomen jnnkish ; palpi and thorax 

 deeper red. 



Expanse of wings : 33 mm. 



One ? from Kayeli, Burn, March 18'.>7 (Uoherty). 



s7. Prionia rufipennis sp. nov. 



Forewings : greenish grey, thickly striated with dull rosy ; the lines, cell-spot, 

 and fringe rosy ; first line from nearly the middle of costa, bluntly angled on the 

 subcostal, then oblique inwards and bent on the median, thence vertical to inner 

 margin ; second line from four-fifths of costa, angled outwards near hindmargin on 

 vein 7, then oblique and sinuous to inner margin before anal angle. 



IlindwinffS : yellow; a wedge-shajied blotch of red suifusion along inner margin, 

 containing the commencement of a rosy submarginal line. 



Underside of both wings yellow ; cell-spot of forewings reddish. Head, thorax, 

 and abdomen reddish grey. 



Expanse of wings : 24 mm. 



One ? from Sibutu, July 181)3 (Everett). 



