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streak along dorsum to beyond tornus, attenuated jiostcinorlj' ; 

 costal area irrorafed with dark fuscous, separated from dorsal 

 streak by a narrow median streak of groundcolour more thinly 

 sprinkled with dark fuscous : cilia grey. Hindwings and cilia 

 grey. 



Natal, Pinetown, in February (Le!(/7i) ; Nyassaland, Mt. Mlanje, 

 in November (iWwe) ; two specimens. The Natal specimen (which 

 is the type) is mucli the larger, but otherwise the examples are 

 exactly similar. 



AMBLYXENA, n. g. - ' 



Head with appressed scales ; tongue very short, slender. An- 

 tennae |, in d" simple, basal joint moderate, with pecten. Labial 

 palpi rather long, slightly curved, subascending, second joint 

 thickened with dense scales, above with expansible hairscales 

 throughout, terminal joint very short, i of second, thickened with 

 scales, obtuse. Maxillary palpi rudimentary. Posterior tibiae 

 clothed with long hairs. Eorewings with 2 from angle, 3 absent, 

 4 and 5 rather approximated, 6 and 7 out of 8, 7 to termen, 9 

 connate with 8, 11 from middle. Hindwings under 1, lanceolate, 

 cilia 1| ; 3 and 4 stalked, 5 and 6 stalked, 7 tolerably remote. 



This is a peculiar form, of which the affinity is not obvious ; it is 

 suggested that it may be an early form of this group. 



Amblyxena enopias, n. sp. 



(5". 22 mm. Head ochreous-whitish. Palpi brownish sprinkled 

 with whitish and blackish, expansible hairs of second joint whitish. 

 Thorax ochreous-whitish, patagia mixed with brownish and dark 

 fuscous. Abdomen dark grey, anal tuft pale ochreous. Forewings 

 narrow, costa gently arched, apex acute, termen slightly sinuate, 

 extremely oblique ; brownish-ochreous mixed with dark fuscous, 

 towards costa and dorsum somewhat mixed with whitish ; costa 

 blackish towards base ; a blackish streak beneath costa from base 

 to beyond middle ; a blackish streak along vein 9, and short streaks 

 on basal portions of veins 10 and 11 ; a slender blackish streak in 

 disc from 5 to near second discal stigma ; plical and second discal 

 stigmata large, blackish, laterally broadly edged with white, plical 

 interrupting two white lines on veins partially mixed with blackish, 

 running from base to termen ; veins between' cell and termen some- 

 what marked irregularly with white and sprinkled with blackish ; 

 a roAV of blackish dots along termen : cilia pale brownish-ochreous 

 mixed with fuscous, on costa dark fuscous. Hindwings gTey ; cilia 

 pale ochreous mixed with fuscous. 



Nyassaland, Mt. Mlanje, in September (JSfeave) ; one specimen. 

 Type in British Museum. 



