NOVITATES ZOOLOGICAE XXV. 1918. 119 



1384a. Miselia runica n. sp. 



?. Head and thorax white, the tegulae with strong black line near tips, 

 the patagia with black stripe on outer edge and some black scales near inner 

 edge ; antennae black with wliite points at sides ; sides of frons and palpi to 

 near extremity of 2nd joint black ; abdomen red-brown ; pectus, legs, and 

 ventral surface of abdomen white mixed with some red-brown, the tibiae and 

 tarsi banded with black. Fore wing white faintly tinged with green and 

 irrorated with a few black scales ; the costa with a series of black bars at 

 origin of the lines and before the subterminal line ; two rather interrupted 

 waved black subbasal lines, uniting above inner margin, on base of which theie 

 is an irregular black-brown patch ; a waved black antemedial line with another 

 much interrupted line before it ; claviform very small and defined by black ; 

 orbicular defined by black, small and round ; reniform defined by black except 

 above and constricted at middle ; ppstmedial line black and somewhat 

 interrupted, slightly bent outwards below costa, then waved and touching the 

 lower part of reniform, incurved below vein 4, another much-interrupted line 

 beyond it ; subterminal hne black, forming a wedge-shaped patch from costa 

 with a white point on it at costa, dentate inwards and with a line beyond it. 

 between veins 5 and 2, excurved at vein 1 ; the cilia with a series of black 

 lunules at base with black-brown bars beyond them at tips. Hindwing white 

 almost entirely suffused with red-brown ; cilia white v.'ith brown line near 

 base, obsolescer.t towards tornus. Underside white irrorated with red-brown 

 except on inner area of forewing, which has a diffused brown postmedial line to 

 vein 2, excurved below costa, and subterminal patch from costa ; hindwing with 

 slight brown discoidal spot and diffu.sed curved postmedial line. 



Hab. U.S.A., Arizona, Palmerlee, 1 ? type. Exj). 26 mill. 



1419a. Odontestra conformis n. sp. 



S. Head, thorax, and abdomen led-brown mixed with some grey ; palpi, 

 pectus, legs, and ventral surface of abdomen red-brown, the tarsi ringed with 

 white. Forewing leaden grey suffused with red-brown ; two black subbasal 

 striae from costa and a black patch below base cf cell with a whitish striga on 

 it ; antemedial line reddish white defined on outer side by black-brown, slightly 

 angled outwards below costa, then sinuous ; claviform dark red-brown defined 

 by black, large ; orbicular and reniform greyish suffused with red-brown and 

 defined by black, large, the former oblique elliptical, the latter open above ; a 

 rather diffused oblique blackish line from lower angle of cell to inner margin ; 

 postmedial line indistinctly double, the inner line black, the outer faint, bent 

 outwards below costa, then dentate ; a subterminal series of white bars defined 

 on inner side by dentate black-brown marks, angled out^^ards at vein 7 ; a 

 terminal series of small black spots. Hindwing pale red-brown with a greyish 

 tinge ; a dark terminal line ; cilia whitish tugged with red-brown and with a 

 brown line at middle ; the underside with dark discoidal bar and diffused curved 

 postmedial line. 



Hab. Cape Colony, Kokstad (Mrs. Pringle), 1 ? type. Exf. 42 mill. 



