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minute hastate spots ot' dark brown upon the 

 interspaces. The fringes, which are pale, 

 are checkered with dark brown at the tips of 

 the nervules. Tlie secondaries are lilacine- 

 brown with a short dark brown bar on the 

 cell near the base, a longer dark brown bar 

 on the middle of the cell, and a transverse 

 discal line at its end. A broad obscurely 

 defined median band of brown crosses the 

 wing just beyond the cell, and is followed by 

 a still broader dark brown band, running 

 from a little beyond the middle of the costa 

 inwardly to the origin of the median ner- 

 vules, where it fuses with a broad brown 

 sh.ade, which does not quite reach the inner 

 margin. A black discal line runs from the 

 costa iuAvardly, gradually widening, and 

 being curved outwardly in the region of the 

 median nervules. This is succeeded by 

 three black subquadrate spots, one located 

 between veins five and six; the others on 

 either side of vein two, the first and third 

 being the largest. They are margined 

 externally by white and the area of the wing 

 immediately adjacent to them is irrorated 

 with bluish scales. The outer margin 

 between veins three and five is dark brown. 

 The margin is indicated by fine geminate 

 regularly curved lines. The fringes are 

 concolorous, except at the outer angle, 

 where they are ochreous. Expanse, 62 mm- 

 This beautiful moth is unfortunately 

 represented in my collection by a single 

 specimen, which is a female. 



Facidia, Walk. 



123. F.horrida, %-p. x\o^ . <J. The entire 

 body, both on the upper and under side, dark 

 smoky-brown. The tarsi are ringed with 

 paler brown. The primaries are dark brown, 

 slightly paler on the outer margin. They 

 are traversed by very obscure basal, median, 

 and limbal ferruginous lines. The limbal 

 line is evenly crenulate, running from the 

 costa almost to vein one, where it forms a 

 loop and returns in the direction of the costa 



to the lower angle of the cell, where it 

 coalesces with the median line, which is 

 incomplete, running only from the lower 

 angle of the cell to the inner margin. At the 

 point where this loop is made above vein 

 one, there is an obscure ocelliforni spot 

 tinged with bluish pupilled with blackish. 

 There are some obscure whitish markings 

 near the apex. In some specimens these are 

 entirely wanting. The transverse lines, 

 which have been described, are also almost 

 obsolete in some specimens, wiiich appear on 

 the upper surface to be uniformly black, 

 except when viewed in a strong light. The 

 secondaries are of the same color as the 

 primaries, marked by a faint and obscure 

 zigzag transverse line which runs from the 

 inner margin above the anal angle about to 

 the middle of the wing. On the under side, 

 the wings are dark brown or blackish, in 

 some specimens almost jet black, laved with 

 pale cinereous on the apex of the primaries, 

 and touched with pale cinereous on the 

 margin of the secondaries near the apex. 

 Both wings are crossed by a curved limbal 

 series of minute white dots located upon the 

 nervules and in some specimens connected 

 by a fine and obscure pale line. Expanse, 

 50 mm. 



This species is allied to F. nigrofusca, 

 Walk., described from Natal. 



EXPLANATION OF PLATE L» 



Fig. I. Plusiocalpe pallida, sp. nov., 13. 



2. Hypodeva barbata, sp. nov., II. 



3. Plusiocalpe prosticta, sp. nov., 14. 



4. PeripJusia nubilicosta, sp. nov., 15. 



5. " cinerascens, sp. nov., 16. 



6. " ecclipsis sp. nov., 17. 

 S. Caligatus Angasii, Wing. 



^Pacidara venustissima, Walk. 

 9. Rhescipha siderosticta, sp. nov., 22. 



10. " hypocaloides, sp. nov., 23. 



11. Gonitis Benitensis, sp. nov., 26. 



12. Homoptr;ra pulcherrima, sp. nov., 30. 



*The numbers appended to the names of the species 

 refer to ihe serial numbers in the text. 



