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Face and palpi olive-brown; vertex and antennae white; thorax greea ; 



abdomen faded, probably greenish ochreons, with fonr white, red-edged dorsal spots- 

 Expanse of wings : 22 mm. 

 1 ¥ from Durban, Natal (G. F. Leighj. 

 It is possible that this may be the ¥ of S. vimla Warr., but the fringes are 



quite different. 



Subfamily STERRHINAE. 

 4. Synelys pudens spec. nov. 



Foreioinri : glossy, very pale flesh-colour, the lines slightly deeper ; the outer 

 line marked by minute dark dots on the veins, jirojecting at veins 6 and 4 ; the 

 median shade parallel to it ; the inner line curved, very faint ; submarginal line 

 fine, waved, between two deeper shades ; marginal spots hardly darker between 

 the veins ; fringe glossy ; cell-spot minute. 



Ilindiriiir/ : without inner line. 



Underside glossy whitish ; the forewing slightly pinkish to median line and 

 black-speckled; the outer and marginal series of spots and the cell-spots black 

 and distinct. 



Face and palpi black above, whitish below ; vertex, shoulders, and jjatagia 

 pearl-grey ; collar brown ; abdomen like wings. 



Expanse of wings : 25 mm. 



1 ¥ from Durban, Natal (G. F. Leigh). 



Like <S'. natalica Butler, but smaller and less strongly marked. 



Subfamily PALYADINAE. 

 0. Melinoessa subalbida spec. nov. 



Foreioimj : dull fulvous, striated with darker fulvous ; the lines and ocelloid 

 spot exactly as in M. croesaria H.S. 



Hindwinc) : similar. 



Underside of the S : forewing deep fulvous with darker striae ; ocelloid spot 

 and median line shown ; marginal area bej'ond outer line dark brownish fuscous : 

 hindwing cream-white, with a brownish band from apex to middle of hiiidmargin, 

 and a dark cell-spot. The ? has the forewing paler and the hiudwiug more 

 ochreons. 



Expanse of wings : c?, 42 mm. ; ¥ , 44 mm. 



4 cf J, 2 ¥ ¥ from Entebbe, Uganda, May l!»OU (Capt. Rattray). 



The pale underside of hindwing will separate the species at once. 



Subfamily ABRAXINAE. 



6. Lomaspilis casta spec. nov. 



Forctvimj : creamy white ; a small basal patch with oblique outer edge of 

 mixed chocolate and lilac scales, a narrow suffusion of the same colours extending 

 along costa to bej'oud middle ; a broad submarginal baud, its inner edge sinuous. 



