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Himhvings : with a black spot at base; a diffuse straight fuscous shade before 

 middle, arched before the black cellspot; a double black straight ])0<tmedian line 

 with a lustrous grey line between ; marginal area as in forewings, with a pale 

 triangular patch below median. 



Underside with costa of both wings 3-ellowish; the brown subraargiual fascia 

 broader; head and collar yellowish ochreous si)ecklcd with blackish; thorax and 

 abdomen cinereous. 



Expanse of wings : 38 mm. 



One c? from Warri, Niger Coast Protectorate, May 1897 (Dr. Eoth). 



Platypepla geu. nov. 



Forewings : short and broad; costa straight for the first half, then strongly 

 convex; apex blunt, slightly produced; hindmargin faintly sinuous; anal angle 

 rounded. 



Himhvings : ample; the hindmargin very fully rounded. 



Palpi short, thick, not reaching beyond forehead, terminal joint minute; 

 antennae long, snbserrate-ciliato; tongue and frenulum present; legs rather stout: 

 hind-tibiae with four spurs; forewings with fovea. 



Nenration : forewings, cell fully half as long as wing, the extremities con- 

 vergent; discocellular vertical; first median at five-eighths, second at seven-eighths; 

 radials normal ; 7, 8, 9, stalked from well before end of cell ; 10 and 11 coincident, 

 anastomosing with 12; submedian vein slightly bulged at base beneath the fovea. 



Hind wings : costal approximated to subcostal for half of cell; vein 7 well before 

 end of cell; medians as in forewings; no radial. 



Type Plati/pepla nudaria, sp. nov. 



Closely approximating in structure to Semiothisa. 



16. Platypepla nudaria sp. nov. 



Fomrings: pale fulvous ochreous, rather deeper tinged at base and along 

 hindmargin; costa speckled with brownish fuscous; a small dark spot on costa near 

 base, and an oblique dark streak at one-third, suggesting the commencement of 

 basal and inner lines; traces of a postmedian line; cellspot black, distinct; fringe 

 concolorons. 



Hindwings : with black cellspot and traces of postmedian curved line on inner 

 margin. 



Underside yellower speckled with brown; cellspots and postmedian line of 

 hindwings only visible. Head, thorax, and abdomen concolorons with wings; palpi 

 brown above. 



Expanse of wings: 22 mm. 



One (J from South Africa, without more precise locality. 



The insect is not fresh, but does not appear to have ever had distinct lines or 

 markings. It bears some superficial resemblance to tlie Lithosid genus Nudaria. 



Subfamily FIDONIINAE. 



17. Fidonia acuta sp. nov. 



Forewings : rufous ochreous, with transverse brown striae, the costa dotted 

 with fuscous; hindmarginal area deeper-tinted, towards anal angle becoming violet 



