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Abdomen brownish fuscous at the sides, with a pale 
dingy ochreous longitudinal streak above, along the 
centre of which runs a slender brownish fuscous line. 
Expanse, 27 mm. 
Two specimens taken at Spring Vale at light in May. 
I have also received this species from Zululand through 
the late Colonel Harvey Tower. 
Oxypriuus, Zeller. 
Oxyptilus caffer, Zell., Lin. Ent. vi., p. 348; Hand- 
lingar Kong. Svensk. Vetens. Akad., 1852, p. 118; 
Walk., Cat. Lep. Het., B. M., xxx., p. 934. 
Oxyptilus walkeri, n.s. 
Capite et thorace cervinis, palpis tenuibus porrectis. 
Alis anticis vix ad medium fissis cervinis, lacinia pos- 
teriore subfalcata, macula ante medium fusca squamis 
subalbidis secuta, macula fuscescenti ad basim fissure, 
maculis tribus costalibus una apicali subconspicuis, 
fasciis duabus dilutis subobsoletis transversis, ciliis intra 
fissuram et in margine dorsali squamis singulis fusce- 
scentibus dentatis. Alis posticis quam anticis aliquot 
obscurioribus, digito tertio squamis fusco-brunneis paulo 
ante apicem denticulato, tibus brunneo et albido alter- 
nantibus. 
Head and thorax fawn-brown, the latter posteriorly 
paler. Antenne greyish brown ; palpi slender, porrected, 
not tufted. Fore wings cleft nearly to the middle, fawn- 
brown ; a fuscous spot before the middle is followed by 
some whitish scales; there is a fuscous spot at the base 
of the fissure, above and beyond it three costal and one 
apical spot, blackish ; the second costal spot is preceded 
and the third costal spot is followed each by a band of 
paler whitish scales, which bands are continued across 
both lobes, but not conspicuously ; between these paler 
bands the cilia within the fissure are studded with 
fusecous scales, as also on the dorsal margin of the 
second lobe, the apex of which is elongated and sub- 
faleate, with a defined anal angle. The hind wings 
are somewhat darker than the fore wings, the posterior 
cleft extending very nearly to the base; the third lobe 
ornamented on its hinder margin with alternate whitish 
TRANS. ENT. soc. 1881.—paRv II. (JULY.) 20 
