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fuscous suffusedly mixed with dark fuscous ; markings in <? 

 pale fuscous, sliglatly whitish-mixed or not paler than ground 

 colour, indistinct, in ? white, distinct ; two sometimes confluent 

 spots at base, a sometimes interrupted fascia at ^, a transverse spot 

 from middle of costa, and a curved series of four spots from q of 

 costa to dorsum before tornus ; a series of small spots round 

 posterior portion of costa and term en ; two or three variable and 

 irregularly placed dots in disc besides these : cilia fuscous, in J 

 sprinkled with whitish, in ? barred with white. Hindwings with 

 5 and 6 sometimes stalked ; in <? rather dark fuscous, in $ whitish- 

 fuscous finely irrorated with dark fuscous ; cilia whitish-fuscous 



Cape Colony, Capetown, in March ; three specimens, bred from 

 larvae. Specially distinguished by the unusually robust thorax and 

 abdomen, small head, and dense hairy clothing, which give it a 

 bombycoid appearance ; the neuration is remarkably variable, veins 

 7 and 8 of forewings and 5 and 6 of hindwings being separate, short- 

 stalked, or long-stalked in different specimens or even in different 

 wings of the same specimen. The larval case is remarkably Psychid 

 in character, very large, 32 mm. in length ; cylindrical, of tough silk 

 closely covered with small pieces of stick (apparently twigs and 

 thorns) arranged transversely, with the ends shortly projecting. 



Melasina circophora Meyr. 



The larval case of this species is 18 mm. long, cylindrical, of 

 silk covered with slender pieces of stick arranged longitudinally, 

 each piece being as long as the case. 



