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in the British Mnsenm Collertion) are smaller than the ? ? , purplish grey or 

 liver-colonred, and with the hyaline spots of forewings much restricted in extent. 



In the diagnosis of the genns Phalacrotlii/rh, I find there was an error in 

 the description of the nenratiou. Vein (5, the npper radial, of the forewing is said 

 to be stalked with 7 and 8 ; as a matter of fact vein 7 is wanting, or rather 

 coincident with (5, the joint vein stalked with 8, which runs as nsnal into the 

 apex ; 9 and 10 are stalked, as stated, and after separating near the costa, 9 is 

 continued nearly to apex, anastomosing at a point with 8. 



Family THYRIDIDAE. 



3. Dysodia binoculata sp. nov. 



Forewings : dull deep red ; the veins and transverse striae dark fuscous, 

 together forming a somewhat regular reticnlation ; an oblique slightly funnel- 

 shaped blackish streak from costa beyond middle to middle of inner margin, 

 touching an oval hyaline white spot at end of cell ; inner margin diffnscly dark ; 

 fringe red at base, iron grey beyond. The costa is slightly incurved at middle. 



Ilindwings : the same, but the hyaline spot larger and round. 



Underside duller red, the reticulations less marked, but the central dark 

 streak black and much plainer. Head, thorax, abdomen above and below all red ; 

 the face and palpi rather deeper than the rest ; dorsal segments of abdomen marked 

 with fuscons ; shoulders ashy grey. 



Expanse of wings : 26 mm. 



1 S from Namaqua Land. 



This apjiears distinct from citlier of Walker's Natal forms, intermedia and 

 crassa. It agrees with the American oculatana in having the hyaline sjiot in 

 both wings. 



Family EPIPLEMIDAE. 



4. Epiplema ansorgei sp. nov. 



Forewings : dull chalk white, sufl'nsed with pale tawny and grey ; costa 

 with distinct tine black tlecks ; first line at aliont one-third, curved, indistinct, 

 pale tawny ; second line from three-fifths of costa, oblique outwards, forming a 

 blunt angle on vein 6, and another, more prominent, on vein 4, then incurved and 

 reaching inner margin vertically at two-thirds ; the line itself is tawny, but 

 between the angles marked with black, and is followed throughout by a whitish 

 and then a tawny line ; marginal area, except apex, suffused with tawny and grey, 

 the grey forming a snbmarginal fasciaform cloud, widest at each end ; fringe 

 whitish. 



Ilindwings : with obscure antemedian and distinct postmedian double tawny 

 line, the latter bluntly angled on vein 4 ; its inner arm marked with blackish 

 above and below the angle, and with minute black specks in the angle ; marginal 

 area tawny, edged with pale, containing a metallic streak from anal angle to 

 angle of postmedian line ; a dark brown snbmarginal line between the teeth, and 

 a darker brown spot below lower tooth ; fringe tawny. 



Underside dull white ; tlie forewings with a broad cloudy dull black ftiscia, 

 leaving the apex whitish. Head, thorax, and abdomen white ; palpi externally 

 blackish. 



