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between veins 3 and 4, and a similar space above 4 and below '■], filled with black 

 scales, which encroach upon the outer line, the veins themselves pale ochreous ; anal 

 area dull grey; marginal area pale ochreons gre}', leaving the apical triangle and 

 the margin below vein 4 whitish ; snbmarginal line indistinct ; a fine black 

 marginal line ; fringe whitish, chequered with grey beyond the veins. 



llhidwinys : with a dark basal line ; a black cell-spot beyond the arched 

 median line ; onter line with a black projection in middle towards the cell-spot ; 

 marginal area purplish grey, with the black blotclies well developed and all the 

 veins pale ; a pale triangular space from anal angle to tail, which is acute. 



Underside white, with all the markings sienna-brown. Head, thorax, and 

 abdomen whitish ; the face and shoulders speckled with fuscous. 



Expanse of wings : 3ii mm. 



One (? from Snmba, September ISDCi (Everett). 



Forewings with a shallow excision from veins 4 to 7 ; hindwings with 

 ])rominent tnil. 



>^l. Tephrina ansorgei sj). nov. 



Forewings : dull pearl-grey, very finely sjieckled with black atoms ; costal area 

 slightly yellow-tinged; first line at one-fourth, curved, dark grey ; second at two- 

 thirds, thick, straight and oblique, retracted below costa: third concise, black-brown, 

 slighfly sinuous and oblique, from costa shortly before apex to three-fourths of inner 

 margin, followed by a grey shade which widens towards inner margin ; fringe glossy 

 grey, with two fine dividing lines. 



Hindwinqs : ]ialer, with a straight brown line from inner margin at two-thirds, 

 not reaching costa, and followed by a slightly darker shade. 



Underside pale grey, speckled with darker grey; the costa, hindmargin, and 

 veins suffused with dull brick-red : the shades on the forewing slightly indicated. 

 Thorax and abdomen like wings ; liead and palpi rufous : pectinations of antennae 

 blackish. 



Expanse of wings : 34 mm. 



One S from Kampala, Uganda, January llsOT, dry season (Dr. Ansorge). 



82. Tephrinopsis plana s]i. nov. 



Forewivqs : greyish ochreons yellow, with faint dark striai' ; costal edge paler, 

 strigulated with fuscons ; a faint dark cell-spot, and traces of a darlc marking 

 towards hindmargin below vein 4 ; fringe concolorons. 



Hiiu/whi</!< : yellower, with a slight cell-spot. 



Underside uniform pale dull yellow. Head, thorax, mid abdomen concolorons : 

 thorax greyer-tinged, like forewings. 



Expanse of wings : 25 mm. 



Two c? S from Dawson district, Queensland. 



Related to T. fictiliarir) Gm'u. = /rrocuratti Wlk., but smaller and without 



any m: 



arkings 



Subfamily ENNOMINAE. 

 H3. Corotia(?) ambigua sp. nov. 

 ForewirK/s : dull lilac-grey, dusted and snlfused with liver-colour, and here and 

 there sprinkled with black scales; central area more thickly covered with liver- 

 coloured striiu', edited bv siniihir-coloured lines : first before (me-third, ontcurved 



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