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? . Abdomen and fore wing thickly irrorated with brown 

 and black ; hind wing suffused with black-brown except 

 inner area ; the underside irrorated with brown and black 

 except inner area of hind wing. 



Ab. 1. $ . Hind wing suffused with black-brown except 

 the basal and inner areas and cilia. 



Hab. Transvaal, White R. {Cooke), 4 <$ type, Piet Retief 

 (Craivshay), 2 g ; Cape Colony, Glen Lynden (Mrs. Lep- 

 pan), 1 ? . Exp. 26-30 mm. 



Miresa cocc'mea, sp. n. 



Antennae of male bipectinate with short branches to apex, 

 of female simple ; hind tibiae with two pairs of spurs. 



<? . Head, thorax, and abdomen bright crimson ; antennae 

 with the branches pale brownish. Fore wing bright crimson ; 

 a greyish-fuscous antemedial line, almost obsolete towards 

 costa, excurved to median nervure, then oblique, connected 

 in cell with a large medial annulate mark, incomplete above 

 and extending from below costa to lower angle of cell, 

 emitting streaks above vein 5 and below 2 almost to termen. 

 Hind wing bright crimson. 



Hab. S. Nigeria, Akassa (Lugartl), 1 $ type. Exp. 

 28 mm. 



Miresa hamatoessa, sp. n. 



Head, thorax, and abdomen bright crimson, the patagia 

 tinged with greyish fuscous ; antennae of male with the 

 branches brownish. Fore w r ing bright crimson ; greyish- 

 fuscous streaks below costa and median nervure from base to 

 the narrow antemedial band which is excurved to median 

 nervure, then oblique, connected in cell with a large medial 

 annulus extending from costa to lower angle of cell and 

 emitting streaks above vein 5 and below vein 2 extending 

 more or less towards termen and an oblique bar from lower 

 angle of cell to vein 1. Hind wing bright crimson. 



Ab. 1. ? . Head, thorax, and fore wing ochreous yellow. 



Hab. Mashonaland (Dobbie), 1 <$ ; Gazaland, Mt. 

 Chirinda (Marshall). 1 ? ; Transvaal, White R. (Cooke), 

 1 ? type. Exp., J 26, ? 34-38 mm. 



Miresa striyivena, sp. n. 



$ . Head, thorax, and abdomen ochreous white. Fore 

 wing pale ochreous ; a faint white band from costa beyond 

 middle, excurved below costa, then oblique to middle of 

 inner margin ; very slight black postmcdial streaks on veins 



