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reaching; costa ; from angle of fascia an irregular blackish white- 

 edged streak runs outward to near termen, and is abruptly angulated 

 downwards to toriius ; an elongate blackish partly while-edged 

 blotch beneath costa from 4 to near apex : cilia grey somewhat 

 mixed with whitish, snffusediy barred with dark fuscous. Hind- 

 wings grey ; cilia light greyish, with darker subbasal line. 



Nyassaland, Mt. Mlanje, in October (Neave); one specimen. 

 Type in British Museum. 



Melasina linicoma, n. sp. 



c? . 14 mm. Head oehreous-whitish. Palpi moderate, oohreous- 

 whitish, mixed with grey. Antennal pectinations 2. Thorax 

 rather dark fuscous. Abdomen dark grey. Forewings elongate, 

 costa gently arched, apex obtuse, termen obliquely rounded ; rather 

 dark fuscous, with faint traces of darker markings : cilia fuscous, 

 with two faint darker shades. Hindwings dark grey ; cilia grey. 



Portuguese East Africa, E. of Mt. Mlanje, in November (Neave); 

 one specimen. Type in British Museum. Allied to terrestris. 



Melasina incauta, n. sp. 



(S . 21-22 mm. Head whitish, crown somewhat mixed with 

 fuscous. Palpi dark fuscous, apex whitish. Antennal pectina- 

 tions 4. Thorax whitish mixed with fuscous, anteriorly suffused 

 with dark fuscous. Abdomen rather dark fuscous. Forewings 

 elongate, posteriorly slightly dilated, costa gently arched, apex 

 rounded, termen slightly rounded, rather oblique ; grey, more or 

 less irregularly mixed or suffusedly irrorated with whitish, and 

 etrigulated with dark fuscous ; some dark fuscous marking towards 

 base of costa ; a slightly oblique transverse fascia before middle 

 indicated by irregular dark fuscous marking, with a broad bar from 

 below middle running to disc at | ; a large dark fuscous spot on 

 costa at |-, and three smaller ones posteriorly : cilia whitish, barred 

 with dark fuscous suffusion. Hindwings dark grey ; cilia whitish, 

 barred with dark grey. 



Portuguese East Africa, E. of Mt. Mlanje, in November 

 (Neave); three specimens. Type in British Museum. Very like 

 hracliyctenis and morhida, but easily distinguished from former by 

 whitish head, from latter by dark grey hindwings. 



Melasina triscia, n. sp. 



6 25-28 mm., $ 38 mm. Head in J fuscous suflfused above 

 with dark fuscous, face mixed with whitish, in $ ochreous some- 

 what mixed with dark fuscous. Palpi in c? dark fuscous, apex 

 pale ochreous, in 5> pale ochreous mixed with dark fuscous. An- 

 tennal pectinations of rj 5. Thorax fuscous suffusedly irrorated 



