( :58i ) 

 '^' Epiplema fumigera sjiec. nnv. 



Foi-eiciiiy : white ; a few small liliick dots along costa ; first line curved, 

 from one-fourth of costa to one-third of inner mar,u-in, but obscure and interrupted; 

 outer line from about tn-o-thirds of costa, oblique to vein 6 aud very obscurely 

 marked, then vertical to vein ;i and marked by black scales, thence oblique to 

 two-thirds of inner margin, eliestniit-bniwn : followed closely by a smoky brown 

 shade, and a blackish grey erect snl)margiiial band, rising from a black spot before 

 anal angle; all three are interrniited and almost obsolete above vein i>; some 

 dark scales before margin lieyond cidl. and bhiek >ubniarginal spots in upper half 

 of wing; fringe white. 



llindwiny : white, with a double somewhat bracket-shaped pos(meilian line, 

 the inner arm darker, the outer lirownish grey, followed by a smoky brownish-grey 

 snbraarginal cloud, both stoi)i)ing short at vein , : dark grey lunnles along hind- 

 margin from upper to below lower tooth, the one beneath it with a black dot ; 

 fringe brownish grey, with white basal line ; some black dots on costa, and traces 

 of a basal line. 



Underside white, with a black submarginal fascia, jilain in forewing, hardly 

 marked in hindwing ; a grey tinge along costa of forewing at base. 



Head, thorax, antennae, abdomen, and legs white; palpi above, a bar at top of 

 face, and front of forelegs blackish. 



Expanse of wings : ",'7 mm. 



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



Hindmargin of forewing entire ; of hindwing toothed at 4 and 7. 



Nearest to K. (niAor(jci ^Varr. 



4. Epiplema siibdistincta sjiec. nov. 



Foreirimi : white; basal area very I'aintly fulvous-tinged, and with traces of 

 three or four outwardly curved lines ; outer line pale fnlvons, double, from beyond 

 middle of costa to two-thirds of inner margin, ontcurved above and with a small 

 indentation beyond cell, the inner arm with a black spot on it above vein 2 ; a 

 fulvous submarginal shade, swollen at middle, and not reaching costa ; fringe white, 

 below the middle fnlvons-tinged. 



IJiiidiriiit) : with a fnlvons cjll-sjiot and dimlili' fulvous outer line bluntly 

 angled at vein 4, tin; inner arm, as in f )rcwing, with a black spot above vein 2, 

 the outer followed by a bright pale lustrous lino swnllen into a blotch at anal 

 angle, and this again by a fnlvons cloud reaching submarginal line at middle : 

 s)dimarginal line brown, indistinctly lunnlar, followed by a bright lustrous marginal 

 line; fringe white, tinged at middle with fnlvons; space between veins :{ and 4 

 somewhat fulvous. 



Underside of forewing jiale fnlvons brown ; inner margin and fringe white : 

 hindwing white, with a dark s]Mit at base nf lower tooth. 



Face, thorax, and abdomen white : dorsum with a grey tinge in middle ; palpi 

 dark at tips and externally. 



Expanse of wings : 22 mm. 



1 ? from Moyamba, Sierra Jjeoue (D. Cator). 



Hindmargin of forewing evenly curved; of hindwing with a. small louih at 

 vein 4 M\\\. 



