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margin as on co.sta ; an oblique brown line from before apes to the middle of the 

 hindniargin ; fringe dark brown. Hindwings yellow ; on inner margin whitish, 

 freckled with fuscous ; anal angle thickly freckled with coarse fuscous dots and a 

 dark fuscous dash; hindraargin also slightly freckled, but more finely; fringe 

 mottled pale and dark fuscous. Head, thorax, and abdomen grey mottled with 

 fuscous ; palpi, antennae, and top of face dark fuscous ; lower part of face yellowish. 

 Underside of forewings dull yellowish, suffused towards hindmargin with rosy 

 cinereous; the lines indistinct. Hindwings orange with hindmargin ro.sy cinereous. 



Expanse of wings : 32 mm. 



One ? from Xias. 



Zomia purpurascens sp. uov. 



Forewings purplish slate colour, the markings yelvety black; basal line tliick, 

 subangulated below the costa ; exterior line the same, forming first a blunt angula- 

 tion, and below it a rounded sinus, outside of which it thins out for a short distance ; 

 outside of first line and inside of second indistinctly and partially edged with tawny ; 

 a dark cell spot. Hindwings as in incitata Wlk., bright yellow, unfreckled ; with a 

 dark cell spot, and the anal angle and inner margin purplish grey, the former with 

 a darker dash. Head, thorax, and abdomen purplish grey. Underside of forewings 

 dull blurred yellow, with the lines showing indistinctly; the cell spot strongly 

 marked, and the whole apical region beyond the second line purplish grey ; underside 

 of hindwings bright yellow, with the cell spot, the dash at the anal angle, and a few 

 .scattered submarginal dots purplish. 



Expanse of wings : A'2 mm. 



One S from Engano, smaller than inciiata, and yery much darker. 



Sicyodes gen. nov. 

 Like Sicya Guen., which is an American genus, but with tlie S antennae pecti- 

 nated, though more shortly than in the d. The species are all South African. 

 Type : S. camhogiaria Guen. (Sicya). 



Nepheloleuca semiplaga sp. noy. 



Forewings canary yellow, slightly elbowed in the middle of the hindmargin, 

 costa paler, much spotted with dark brown; surface sparsely strewn with dull oliye 

 transyerse striae ; first line rather oblique outwards, slightly sinuous, dull oliye ; co.stal 

 spot nearly semicircular, dull whitish, edged \yith brown ; from it runs a dull oliye 

 line, curying slightly outwards to the anal angle ; it is preceded on the inner margin 

 by a short upright blotch, edged internally with darker ; cell spot, blackish, well 

 defined. Hindwings like forewings, with a curyed and denticulate dark white-edged 

 line, as in complicata Guen., followed immediately by a dull rufous shade, which 

 starts from the costa with the line itself, is broadest behind the tail, and does not 

 reach the anal angle; tail blunt, tipped with reddish brown, and with an oblong black 

 mark in front ; fringe line and fringes reddish. Head, face, thorax, and abdomen 

 concolorous. Underside like upper, without mottlings ; the outer line marked on 

 both wings ; the hindwings with a red brown anal patch. 



Expanse of wings : 34 mm. 



One cJ from Corco\ado. 



