418 Sir G. F. Hampson on new 



black, round, the latter defined by black except below, a 

 black streak between them ; postmedial line with double 

 blackish spots at costa, then indistinct, bent outwards below 

 costa, then dentate, excurved to vein 4, then oblique ; a 

 fuscous patch on costa before the hardly traceable pale 

 curved subterminal line; a terminal series of black points; 

 cilia white tinged with rufous. Hind wing pure white, the 

 apical area faintly tinged with brown ; a slight brownish 

 terminal line except towards tornus ; the underside with 

 the costal area striated with brown, a small brown discoidal 

 spot, slightly curved postmedial line with points on the 

 veins and some points on termen towards apex. 



Hab. Transvaal, Johannesburg {Cooke), 1 ? type. Exp. 

 42 mm. 



832 b. Episilia ochricraspia, sp. n. 



Head and thorax deep rufous to blackish rufous ; palpi with 

 the extremities of second and third joints pale ochreous ; 

 shoulders with pale ochreous patches ; abdomen rufous, the 

 basal segments dorsally clothed with grey-brown hair. Fore 

 wing deep rufous to blackish rufous, the costal area pale 

 ochreous to beyond middle, expanding to median nervure on 

 basal area and confluent with the ochreous semi-elliptical 

 orbicular and large reniform stigmata, the latter with some 

 brown scales in centre ; some grey hair at base of inner 

 margin; faint traces of a sinuous greyish antemedial line 

 and curved postmedial line oblique below vein 4 ; a rather 

 more distinct waved subterminal line. Hind wing grey 

 tinged with reddish brown especially in female ; a faint 

 discoidal lunule ; cilia reddish ochreous with slight dark 

 line near tips from apex to vein 2 ; the underside greyish, 

 the costal area suffused with rufous, a dark discoidal spot 

 and terminal series o£ dark striae from apex to vein 2. 



Hab. Falkland Is., East I. {Reid),9 (^, 1 ? type. E.vp. 

 40-41 mm. 



958 a. Lycophotia atrisigna, sp. n. 



^ . Head, and base of tegulse yellowish white with a few 

 brown scales; palpi and antennae blackish, the former 

 yellowish Avhite at tips ; tegulae with black medial line, the 

 tips of tegulse and thorax purplish grey ; pectus and legs 

 brown, the tibiae with some yellow hair, the tarsi ringed 

 with white ; abdomen white tinged with brown, the ventral 

 surface brown except at base. Fore wing purplish grey 

 with some yellowish at base, the base of submedian fold and 



