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14. Malamhlia durhanica, spec. nov. 



Body and upper side of fore wing bluish black, without gloss ; hind 

 wing and under side of both wings blackish brown, slightly purplish. 

 Length of fore wing 8f mm. 



Hah. Durban, Natal. One male in the British Museum. 



15. Homophylotis leptis, spec. nov. 



^ . Body above blue, beneath brown with a purplish sheen ; a long 

 spot before apex of antenna white ; eyes edged with grey, centre of 

 frons, legs, and palpi luteous. Wings very narrow, purple-brown ; 

 hind wing with a broad vitreous stripe below cell, extending from base 

 to near distal margin. Under side of wings brown. Length of fore 

 wings 8 to 9 mm. 



Hah. Pungo Andongo, Angola, April, 1875 (A. von Homeyer). 

 Three males in the Tring Museum. 



16. Homophylotis catori, spec. nov. 



(? . Upper side of body and fore wing blackish green ; hind wing 

 with a very broad vitreous streak, extending from base close to distal 

 margin, and from centre of cell to hmd margin, the greenish black 

 marginal band being widest at anal angle. A spot before the somewhat 

 incrassate apex of antenna, the frons, palpi, sides of breast, the under 

 side of the abdomen, except a basal central spot and the last segment, 

 and the under side of the femora, tibiae, and of the first tarsal segment, 

 yellow. Length of fore wing 8 mm. 



Hab. Moyamba, Sierra Leone, February, 1903 (D. Cater). 

 One male in the Tring Museum. 



POMPOSTOLIN^, Subfam. nov. 



OcelH absent. Mid and hind tibiae incrassate, the latter in male 

 with scent-organ situated in a dorsal groove, which bears proximally 

 a tuft of very long hairs. In both wings, first radial from upper angle 

 of cell and second radial from lower angle, first subcostal and second 

 median far distant from proximal angle, first submedian absent. 



Type: Pompostola hyparchus, Cram. (1779). 



17. Arniocera poecila, spec. nov. 



3- ? . Body dark bronze-green ; dorsal edge of patagia, upper side 

 of abdomen, except first and second segments, the palpi, a lateral spot 

 on presternum, and a large spot on the mid and hind tibiae, or only on 

 the mid tibia, red. Upper side of fore wing bluish green, with yellow 

 markings edged with black : a subbasal band, an interrupted or mesially 

 constricted median baud, an elongate subapical spot, and a small 

 rounded spot situated near hind angle. Hind wing uniformly green- 

 blue. Under side greenish blue, the two distal spots of fore wing and 

 the costal portion of the median band distinct. 



Hah. Various places in Usoga, Kavirondo, Uganda, and 

 British East Africa. A series in the Tring Museum ; also in 

 British Museum. 



