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38. Haggardia spissata spec. nov. 



ForiviiKj : covered with dense, rough, grey and fuscons scales, oliliterating 

 tlie pale ground-colour ; costa ochreous with short black striae ; the lines black, 

 thickened on the veins; first at one-third, oblinue to median, then vertical ; outer 

 from three-fourths of costa, incurved to vein 4 below tiie black cell-sjwt, thence 

 parallel to first line ; a ver}- indistinct dentate submarginal line, denoted by 

 whitish scales ; fringe concolorous, faintly dark-mottled ; veins towards margin 

 rust-coloured. 



IliiidirliKj : somewhat paler towards costa ; no inner line. 



Underside whitish, thickly grey-speckled ; costa of forewiiig ochreous witii 

 dark striae ; cell-spots distinct ; outer line faint ; fringe dark. 



Head and thorax dark grey ; abdomen lighter grey, with a black band at base ; 

 pectus and legs dark grey. 



Expanse of wings : 44 mm. 



1 c? from Stanger, Natal (J. Delvin). 



Pectus and jialpi woolly. 



39. Haggardia subalbata spec. nov. 



Foremng : wood-Iirowu, densely striated with black, the cell and basal area 

 almost becoming black, and a broad marginal border actually black ; the cell-spot 

 and two transverse lines deej) black ; first line from one-fourth of costa to one-fourth 

 of inner margin strongly excurved above and below median vein ; the outer from 

 two-thirds of costa to middle of inner margin, slightly dentate outwards on the veins, 

 sinuous inwards, with one deep sinus in submedian interval, where it appniximates 

 closely to first line ; before the dark marginal border a liinulate paler submarginal 

 band, limiting ontwardly a broad area of the ground-colour ; this is sometimes very 

 ill-defined; fringe brown, chequered with blackish beyond veins. 



llinilwing : with the two dark lines fine and indistinct ; a black cell-spot ; the 

 rest as in fore wing. 



Underside dull pearl-grey, thickly dusted with black ; the costa of forewing 

 ochreous ; black cell-spot and traces of outer line ; fringe brown-grey. 



Head, shoulders, and pectus dark grey ; thorax and jiatagia blackish : 

 abdomen brown, thickly black-speckled ; legs grey speckled with black. 



Expanse of wings : 40 mm. 



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



I have seen another example, also a 6 , from the Tianskei, mnch larger and 

 more distinctly marked. 



40. Hirasodes deuticulata. 



Jlirasa detitimihla'Wa.TT., Nov. Zniil. xi. p. 473, ? (1904). 



A c? from the same locality as the ? ? already seen — Natal — has strongly 

 pectinated antennae, and the species must be placed under Ilirasode.t Warr. 



The S is pinkish l)rown in coloration, and expands only 30 mm. ; the lines are 

 more distinctly marked than in the ? . 



Omphalucha gen. nov. 



Foiririiig : elongate-triangular ; ensta straiglit, slightly intlcxed in middle; 

 apex blunt ; hindmargin obliijuely curved, crenulate. 



