150 Sir G. F. Hampson on new 



tips. Hind wing white tinged with brown ; cilia white slightly 

 tinged with brown at tips. Underside white suffused with brown 

 except on apical area of fore wing. 



Hab. Cape Colony, Capetown, Table M. {Meade-Waldo), 1 $ 

 type. Exp. 30 mm. 



(26 c) Prosmixis argentescens, sp. n. 



Head and thorax bright red-brown mixed with some whitish ; 

 abdomen white tinged with red-brown, the 2nd segment with some 

 fulvous on dorsum ; antennae black ringed with white ; palpi white 

 at base and with some black at tips ; pectus, legs, and ventral 

 surface of abdomen white tinged with red-brown. Fore wing 

 bright red-brown mixed with some silvery whitish and slightly 

 irrorated with black scales except on costal and terminal areas ; 

 a faint blackish streak in end of cell and obscure red-brown 

 discoiclal spot defined by whitish ; the veins beyond the cell with 

 slight blackish streaks ; a faint whitish subterminal line excurved 

 above and below middle ; a series of black points before termen 

 from below costa to vein 2 ; cilia silvery white tinged with red- 

 brown. Hind wing white tinged with red-brown ; cilia white 

 with a pale red-brown line near base. Underside white tinged with 

 red-brown. 



Hab. Tkansvaal, Lydenburg, 1 6 ; Cape Colony, Deelfontein 

 (Hoggett), 1 ? type, Annshaw (Miss F. Barrett), 1 $ . Exp. 

 28-32 mm. 



(26 d) Prosmixis albescens, sp. n. 



$ . Head and thorax white mixed with red-brown, the head 

 whiter ; abdomen white tinged with red-brown ; palpi suffused with 

 black except towards base ; pectus, legs, and ventral surface of 

 abdomen white irrorated with red-brown. Fore wing white more 

 or less strongly mixed with red-brown and irrorated with black, 

 the costal area whiter ; a small rather diffused black discoidal spot ; 

 postmedial line indistinct, white defined on outer side by blackish, 

 angled outwards to near termen at vein 6, then oblique to below 

 vein 3, then bent inwards to vein 1 before middle and incurved to 

 inner margin. Hind wing white slightly tinged with red-brown, 

 the cilia almost pure white. Underside of fore wing white suffused 

 with red- brown, the terminal area whiter. 



Hab. Br. E. Africa, Nairobi (Craicshay, Anderson), 2 $ type. 

 Exp. 34 mm. 



Genus Conotalis, nov. 



Type, C. aurantifascia. 



Proboscis nearly fully developed ; palpi downcurved, extending 

 about the length of head and thickly scaled ; maxillary palpi 

 strongly dilated with scales ; frons with rounded prominence ; 

 antenna? of male typically strongly laminate. Fore wing with the 



