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rately arched, apex round-pointed, termen very obliquely rounded ; 

 pale yellow, coarsely and irregularly reticulated with crimson-red, 

 in ^ more or less suifused and subconfiuent throughout so as to 

 appear nearly all red, in J suffused and confluent towards margins 

 on posterior half only ; a streak from middle of base to middle of 

 dorsum and thence to costa beyond middle, a spot beneath costa 

 at i, and a series of cloudy dots along posterior part of dorsum and 

 termen to apex in ? indicated by dark purplish-fuscous suffusion, 

 in ^ hardly traceable, purple-crimson : cilia pale yellowish, towards 

 base suff'used in S with crimson, in J with dark purplish-fuscous. 

 Hindwings and cilia ochreous-whitish. 



Cape Colony, Capetown and Kalk Bay, in March (Lightfoot) ; 

 two specimens. 



EHCECOPTEKA, n. g. 



Head loosely haired, hairs projecting on forehead in a conical 

 rough tuft; ocelli small; tongue developed. Antenna f, in ^ mode- 

 rately ciliated (1^), basal joint moderate, without pecten. Labial 

 palpi very long, curved, ascending, second joint beneath with 

 triangular apical tuft of long projecting scales, terminal joint as 

 long as second, slender, acute. Maxillary palpi very short, loosely 

 scaled, appressed to tongue. Posterior tibise clothed with hairs 

 above. Forewings with 16 furcate, 2 from towards angle, 7 and 8 

 stalked, 7 to termen, 11 from middle. Hindwings somewhat over 

 1, elongate-ovate, cilia ^; 3 and 4 closely approximated at base, 

 5-7 parallel. 



Type B. gigas Wals. Apparently most allied to the Australian 

 genus Saropla Meyr. ; the greater relative breadth of the hindwings 

 is unusual in the CEcophoridce, but is due to the exceptional and 

 irregular contraction of the forewings. The species is referred by 

 Lord Walsingham to Ypsolophus, with which there is some super- 

 ficial resemblance, but the neuration is entirely different. 



Philobota tectifeka, n. sp. 



$ . 13 mm. Head and thorax yellow-ochreous, face and shoulders 

 suffused with pale grey. Palpi grey mixed with pale yellowish. 

 Antennae and abdomen grey. Forewings elongate, costa gently 

 arched, apex round-pointed ; termen nearly straight, oblique ; 

 fulvous-yellowish, suffused with pale fuscous towards costa except 

 near base ; fold from near base to prtctornal blotch broadly suf- 

 fused with ferruginous-brown ; first discal stigma dark fuscous ; a 

 triangular rather dark purplish-fuscous blotch on dorsum before 



