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NEW AFRICAN TIIYEIBIDAE. VBAXIIDAE, AND 

 GEOMETBIBAE. 



By \V. WARREX, M.A., RES. 



Family Til YI! I HI I iAE. 



1- Banisia discata spec. nov. 



I'oreiviixj : jiinkish oclireons, crossed by deeper oclirefnis waved lines, a few 

 of which are fiuely marked with black ; these are an intprrni>tc'd inner line, vertical 

 at one-third ; a median lino forked at each end, and tonching externally a small 

 nnmd black-edged spot at end of cell ; a waved outer line rnnning to anal angle, 

 and a short snbapical line ; small black marginal spots beneath apex ; fringe 

 conrolorons ; the middle of costa is marked by fonr pairs of small white dots. 



Ilimliring : with a dark spot at end of cell and a smaller one in cell before 

 it, the lines tlirongii them uniting ou submediau fold in a black X-shai)ed marking. 



Underside with all the markings more distinct. 



Thorax and abdomen like wings ; head and palpi externally browner. 



Expanse of wings : 17 mm. 



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



Family IHAMIDM:. 



Sl-bfamilv EPIPLEMINAE. 



'-'. Epiplema asinina spec nov. 



ForeiriiHi : dirty grey, densely peppered with darker; costa at base blackish ; 

 lines dark brownish ; first at one-third, strongly angled ontwards on median vein; 

 outer line from three-fifths of costa, outwardly convex to vein 4, then concave to two- 

 thirds of inner margin, jireceded by a dilfuse darker shade, which at inner margin 

 forms a blackish bhitch ; a snbmarginal streak of dark brown spots edged inwardly 

 with black from apex to below middle ; fringe brown, with the base paler. 



lUndirhiii : with the lines as in forewing, but the outer line more acutely 

 angled on vein 4, followed by a pale dark-edged line and preceded by a dark shade : 

 an irregular dark snbmarginal cloud; a brown, inwardly black-edged, marginal 

 shade from npper to below lower tooth, crossed below by three short white lines ; 

 a dark line on discoeellnlar ; fringe as in Inrewing. 



Underside dingy brownish grey, dajipled and striated with darker. 



Face and jialpi deep brown ; vertex, thorax, and alidnmen dark grey. 



Expanse of wings : 'i'-S mm. 



1 S from Natal. 



A dull and iuconsi)icn(ins insect. 



Forewing with hindmargin simjily curved : liindwing tdothed at veins 4 and 7. 



Antennae with distinct clavato teeth, ferruginous. 



