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Face and palpi whitish, palpi externally black ; sluuilders white with black 

 tips ; thorax, patagia, and abdomen whitish ; the last with a deep black band 

 on second segment, two black spots on third, and the rest of dorsum darkened 

 with grey scales. 



Expanse of wings : 48 mm. 



1 c? from Darban, Natal (G. F. Leigh). 



Subfamily FIDONIINAE. 

 4s. Obolcola despecta sj)ec. nov. 



Foreici/ii/ : greyish ochreous, thickly speckled with brown; slight indications 

 of two cross-lines ; one vertical jnst before middle, thickened on inner margin, 

 the other towards hindmargin, running outwards from two-thirds of costa, angled 

 on vein 7, then oblique and swollen before anal angle ; there appears also to be a 

 dark line near base ; a small dark cell-spot ; fringe concolorous. 



llindwing : with the lines still less marked; the cell-sjjot only plain. 



Underside jjaler, yellowish ; the markings therefore plainer. 



Head, thorax, and abdomen concolorous. 



Expanse of wings : 24 mm. 



'i S S from Ganyonyo, Ivory Coast, May I'.iOo (Pemberton). 



Oxyfidonia gen. nov. 



Forewiiuj : costa straight, bat strongly convex before apex, which is bluntly 

 produced ; hindmargin excised between apex and vein 4, then oblique ; a small 

 but distinct fovea above sulimedian vein. 



Himhciiig : hindmargin angled at middle, subcrenulate. 



Antennae of c? plumose; palpi porrect, short; second segment roughly haired 

 beneath, third shortly spatulate ; tongue weak; frenulum distinct; hiudtibiae 

 flattened and thickened, with four spurs. 



Nenration : forewing, cell half as long as wing ; discocellular vertically 

 concave ; first median nervule at two-thirds, second close to third ; radials 

 normal ; 10, 11, T, 8, 9 all stalked from before end of cell, 10 and 11 being 

 coincident throughout, and not anastomosing with 12 : hindwing, costal and 

 subcostal closely approximated for one-third of cell ; veins o and 7 before angles 

 of cell. 



Type : Oxyfidonia J'ulcida spec. nov. 



49. Oxyfidonia fulvida spec. nov. 



Forewimj : Ijrownish fulvous, irregularly speckled with darker: the costal 

 edge finely dotted with blackish; no distinct lines, but a dark costal spot at 

 one-fourth indicates a basal line, and from another at two-thirds a faint curved 

 outer line can be traced ; fringe concolorous, dotted with blackish. 



IliiKhrimj : the same, but with distinct traces of an outer sinuous line. 



Underside brighter fulvons, with cell-spots and outer lines marked. 



Head, thorax, and abdomen like wings ; face brown ; legs spotted with brown ; 

 forelegs brown in front. 



Expanse of wings ; 20 mm. 



2 c?c? from Mnyamba, Sierra Leone, Seijtember — October 1903 (Cator). 



