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palpi above brown ; abdomen with brownish segmental bands ; wings 

 covered with grey irrorations ; fore-wings with two oblique black 

 lines, one from tlie hinder margin at one-third, towards end of cell, 

 where it is acutely bent inwards, then upwards, the other from the 

 middle to near the apex, where it is acutely bent inwards and then 

 upwards to the costa near the apex ; hind-wings with a discal line 

 nearly straight and indications of several brownish very obscure 

 parallel bands ; marginal line of both wings black ; cilia grey with a 

 pale base ; under-side uniformly pale grey, the discal lines prominent, 

 fore-wings with some brown suffusion near outer border and an 

 ochreous patch at apex. 



Expanse of wings It";? inches, 



Hab. Naitolia, Brit. E. Africa (Betton). 

 Hemerophila mailaria, nov, 



(J. Uniformly grey, the ground-colour being white thickly 

 covered with very minute ochreous-grey irrorations ; antennas and 

 upper side of palpi brown; fore- wings with two oblique sinuous 

 black lines, the first from the hinder margin at one-third towards 

 end of cell, the second from the middle running parallel with the 

 first but continued to near the apex ; on the outer sides of each of 

 these lines and on the costa are shades of grey suffused bands ; hind- 

 wings with an internal grey band corresponding with the outer line 

 of the fore-wings, a discal black line, and indications of a submarginal 

 grey band ; a large brown spot at the end of each cell of both wings, 

 a brown marginal line, and whitish cilia ; under-side whitish, a 

 brown spot at the end of each cell, no other markings. 



Expanse of wings l^o inches. 



Bah. Congo {Marsden). 



Genus Nothabraxas, Wan-., Nov. Zool, iv, p. 88 (1897). 

 Hameopis, Butler, P. Z. S., 1898, p. 435. 



Nothabraxas rudicornis. 

 Hameopis rudicornis, Butler, 1. c, pi. 32, f. 13. 

 1 $, Taru, Brit. E. Africa (type). 



Nothabraxas commaculata. 



Nothabraxas commaciUata, Warr., Nov. Zool., iv, p. 88 



(1897). 



1 %, Kikuyu, Brit. E. Africa. 



