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Afrophyla gen. nov. 



Forewings : triangular ; costa very slightly curved throughout ; apex produced 

 slightly ; hindmargin oblique, faintly sinuous, incurved below apex, and convex 

 above the anal angle, which is well marked. 



Hindwings : broad, the hindmargin only ciuved, and with a slight elbow in the 

 middle. 



Forehead somewhat produced below ; palpi porrect, not long, the third joint 

 minute ; tongue present ; antennae (?) filiform. 



Neuration: cell half as long as wing. Forewings with first subcostal at three- 

 fourths, anastomosing with the stem of the other four, which rises at seven-eighths, 

 and forming thus a rather long accessory cell ; margins of the cell both bent inwards 

 towards end: first median at about one-half; second at seven-eishths, third from 

 lower angle of cell. Hindwings, subcostal upcurved near base, closely approximated 

 to the co.stal for a short distance ; two subcostals on a short stem ; radial from centre 

 of discocellular ; medians as in forewings. 



Type : Afrophyla dichordata Warr. 



Afrophyla dichordata sp. nov. 



Forewings: pale whitisli ochreous, slightly dusted with brownish, more thickly 

 near base and along costa ; lines brown, the first at one-third, parallel to hindmargin, 

 not reaching the costa; second curved fi-om costa close before apex to inner margin 

 at two-thirds ; a brown cell-spot ; fringe brownish. 



Hindwings: rather paler, not so much dusted with fuscous, with a single brown 

 submarginal line, which is more distinct towards the inner margin ; a brownish cell- 

 dot, and the fringes browni.<h. 



Head, thorax, and abdomen ochreous much suffused with fuscous. Underside 

 like upper, but the lines less marked on the forewings, and more distinct on the 

 hindwings. 



E.xpanse of \vings : 36 mm. 



One ? from Tauta, E. Africa. 



Nearcha benecristata sp. nov. 



Forewings: pale whitish grey, with a slight ochreous tinge; very sparsely 

 dusted with fine blackish atoms ; costa ochreous yellow to beyond the middle ; first 

 line indicated by three black spots, on the median and submedian veins and inner 

 margin respectively; cell-spot ocelloid, black-edged; exterior line curved outwards 

 in the middle of the wing, and inwards in its lower course, represented by black vein- 

 dots edged posteriorly with pale from the costa to the first median, thence to the 

 inner margin by a thick black streak ; submarginal shade dark grey, not reaching 

 anal angle, and darkening towards the costa, which it attains close to the ajiex; 

 fringe concolorous, witli a row of black dots at the end of the veins. 



HindAvings : with a central dark grey thickish line or shade, and the marginal 

 area dark grey, almost blackish at the inner angle. 



Top of face, thorax, and abdomen concolorous with wings, or even paler. Face 

 and pal))i black. Underside more or less suffused with smoky grey, with a large 

 blackish cell-spot on each wing. Abdomen with a black-edged tuft of hair on either 

 side of the second segment above, and a second, more greyish tuft below on the 



