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transverse white spot or mark from middle of dorsum reaching 

 nearly half across wing ; a terminal series of minute whitish dots : 

 cilia purple-whitish, with dark fuscous basal, median, and apical 

 lines. Hindwings grey ; cilia pale grey, darker towards base. 



Nyassaland, Kuo Valley, in March {Neave)-, two specimens, 

 Type in British Museum. 



LYONETIAD^. 



Opogona speciosa, n. sp. 



5 . 8 mm. Head and thorax greyish-bronze, fillet, face, and 

 palpi ochreous- whitish, ForeAvings lanceolate ; dark purple-bronze; 

 a broad deep yellow transverse fascia, somewhat nearer apex than 

 base, occupying almost ^ of wing : cilia light grey, basal half deep 

 purple-bronze. Hindwings dark fuscous ; cilia fuscous. 



S. N^iGERiA {Lamlorn) ; two specimens. ' Very like fiavofasciata, 

 but fascia of forewings broader and further from base than in any 

 of my examples of that species, which I have only from India and 

 Ceylon. Type in British Museum. 



Opogona phaeocrana, n. sp. 



S . 9 mm. Head rather dark bronzy-fuscous, fillet, face, and 

 palpi whitish-oehreous. Thorax light ochreous-yellow. Abdomen 

 grey. Forewings lanceolate, acute ; light ochreous-yellow ; costal 

 edge dark fuscous towards base : cilia light ochreous-yellow. Hind- 

 wings grey ; cilia pale yellowish. 



Nyassalakd, Mt. Mlanje, in December {Neave)\ one specimen. 

 Type iu British Museum 



Hieroxestis plumbifera, n. sp. 



(S $ . 10-12 mm. Head, palpi, and thorax ochreous-yellow, 

 thorax with small dark fuscous spots on shoulders and at posterior 

 extremity. Abdomen grey, anal tuft whitish-oehreous. Forewings 

 narrow-lanceolate, apex caudate, somewhat down-turned ; ochreous- 

 yellow ; an oblique dark fuscous spot on base of costa, a second 

 at I, becoming leaden-metallic beneath, and a semioval spot 

 beyond middle ; a small dark fuscous spot on dorsum at end of 

 fold ; a pale leaden-metallic streak along fold, a longitudinal streak 

 through median third of disc, a spot on dorsum at |, a subdorsal 

 mark beyond the dark fuscous spot, another above tornus, and a 

 longitudinal mark resting on middle of termen : cilia light ochreous- 

 yellow. Hindwings rather dark grey ; cilia pale greyish. 



Nyassaland, Mt. Mlanje, in January and March (Neuve) ; two 

 specimens. Type in British Museum. 



