MOVITATES ZOOLOOICAE XXVI. 1911). 255 



minute, defined by black, acute at extremity ; orbicular pure white defined by 

 black and with some black scales in centre, elongate elliptical ; reniform with 

 blackish centre and white annulus defined by black ; an indistinct sinuous 

 blackish medial Une ; postmedial hne black defined on outer side by white, bent 

 outwards below costa, then dentate, oblique below vein 4 ; subterminal line 

 white, defined on inner side by blackish towards costa, and by dentate black 

 marks from below vein 6 to below 2, dentate at veins 7, 6, 4, 3, 2 ; a lunulate 

 black terminal line ; cilia white tinged with red- brown. Hindwing silvery white ; 

 traces of a dark discoidal striga and of postmedial and subterminal lines ; a fine 

 dark terminal line ; the underside with the costal area irrorated with brown, a 

 blackish discoidal point and postmedial shade from costa to discal fold. 

 Hah. S. Palestine, El Faikhari (Austen), 2 ^ type. Exp. 30 mill. 



Eadeninae. 

 1536a. Hyssia malaphaea n. n. 



Byaaia sminlUatis Hmpsn., A.M.N.H. (8) xii. p. 593 (1913) nee Hmpsn. 1905. 



ZEUOBIAITAE. 

 3264a. Hypoplezia mictochioa n. sp. 



Antennae of female bipectinate with short branches to near apex. 



$. Head and thorax purplish red mixed with whitish and black, a black 

 line behind the tegulae ; antennae black barred with white above ; palpi black- 

 brown ; abdomen dark brown tinged with grey, the basal crest purplish red ; 

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

 white. Forewing purplish red mixed with some black and white, the veins 

 streaked with leaden grey ; double subbasal black striae from costa, a slight 

 diffused mark below the cell and oblique shade above inner margin ; ante- 

 medial line black defined on inner side by white, oblique, waved ; claviform 

 minute, defined by black ; orbicular purplish red, with whitish annulus defined 

 by black, round ; reniform leaden grey with incomplete red annulus defined 

 by black except above ; postmedial line white defined on inner side by black, 

 and with large patches of black suffusion before it beyond the cell and below 

 vein 3, bent outwards below costa, then slightly waved, oblique below vein 4, 

 some white points with black between them beyond it on costa ; subterminal 

 line white, reduced below vein 6 to points on the veins defined on inner side 

 by blackish, excurved at vein 6 ; a terminal series of slight black lunules ; cilia 

 dark leaden grey, chequered with purplish red at tips. Hindwing glossy fuscous 

 brown tinged with grey ; a curved blackish postmedial Une ; ciha whitish at 

 base, with blackish Hne at middle and purphsh pink tips. Underside of fore- 

 wing fuscous, the inner area whitish, the costa and termen irrorated with reddish 

 and whitish, the postmedial line black, arising below costa and incurved below 

 vein 4 ; hindwing whitish tinged with purjilish pink and irrorated with black, 

 a black discoidal spot and ciu-ved postmedial line. 



Hah. Natal, Pinetown (Piatt), 1 $ type. Exp. 36 mill. 



