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behind ; frons white at sides ; throat and. fore coxse white ; 

 tibiae and tarsi banded with white ; ventral surface of abdo- 

 men with medial white band. Fore wing black ; diffused 

 yellow streaks below base of costa and cell ; a wedge-shaped 

 patch in end of cell and patch beyond the cell, leaving a round 

 black discoidal spot between them. Hind wing hyaline, the 

 veins and margins black-brown ; an oblique black bar on 

 upper discocellular. 



Hab. Natal, Malvern (Barker), 1 g type, Estcourt (Hut- 

 chinson), 1 g ; Cape Colony, Grahamstown (Miss M.Daly), 

 1 c? • Exp. 18 mm. 



Tinthia endopyra, sp. n. 



? . Head, thorax, and abdomen blue-black ; palpi with 

 some scarlet at base and towards extremity ; vertex of head 

 with some scarlet hairs ; dorsum of thorax and upper edge 

 of patagia with slight scarlet streaks ; fore coxae scarlet at 

 sides, the mid and hind tibiae banded with scarlet ; abdomen 

 with slight scarlet patch at base of dorsum, the anal tuft with 

 whitish and scarlet streak, the ventral surface banded with 

 scarlet. Fore wing dark cupreous brown ; a scarlet fascia 

 above inner margin from near base to below end of cell ; a 

 round scarlet discoidal spot. Hind wing hyaline, the veins 

 and margins cupreous brown. 



Hab. Natal, 1 ? type. Exp. 18 mm. 



Lepidopoda albifrons, sp. n. 



<£ . Head, thorax, and abdomen black, with a metallic- 

 blue gloss, the last with white line on fifth segment ; palpi 

 white in front except third joint; frons white ; fore coxae 

 white ; mid tibiae with broad white band, the hind tibiae with 

 large tuft of blue-black hair with white spot on it, the tarsi 

 whitish below ringed with black ; abdomen white ventrally, 

 with some black at base of first two segments. Fore wing 

 black, with a metallic-blue gloss ; a slight hyaline streak 

 below base of cell ; a wedge-shaped hyaline patch in end of 

 cell ; the interspaces beyond the cell with hyaline streaks ; 

 the inner edge of the broad terminal band minutely dentate 

 in the interspaces. Hind wing hyaline, the veins and margins 

 black ; a black bar on upper discocellular ; the inner area 

 black, with a silvery-blue gloss ; the hair at base of inner 

 margin white ; the terminal band narrow, with very slightly 

 waved inner edge ; cilia brownish. 



? . Mid and hind legs much less strongly tufted with hair 



