198 NOCTCID.E. 



brown patch in end of cell ; postmedial line slighl . dark, with lunulate 

 brown patch on it beyond the cell, oblique from costato vein 4, then 

 bent inwards to lower angle of cell and oblique to inner margin ; 

 subterminal line represented by a diffused brown spot on costa and a 

 diffused band from discal fold to inner margin, its inner edge 

 excurved between veins 5 and 3 ; some diffused brown on middle of 

 termen ; cilia white with some reddish brown at middle. Hind 

 wing white ; a medial band of dark suffusion, tinged with rufous at 

 costa towards which it expands, enclosing a white spot beyond end 

 of cell and with some black on it at end of cell and inner margin ; 

 a black-brown postmedial spot on costa ; a diffused black-brown 

 subterminal band expanding into a patch at middle; the underside 

 • lute, the costa tinged with ochreous, a diffused brownish medial 

 band and terminal band narrowing to tornus. 



Hah. Hierka Leone (Clements), 1 J , 1 § type. Exp. 10-18 

 millim. 



5307. Holocryptis erosides. (Plate CLV. fig. 4.) 

 Troetoptera erosides, Hmpsn. Ann. S. Afr. Mas. ii. p. 422 (1902). 



$ . Head, thorax, and abdomen pure white, the fore tibiae with a 

 brown stripe in front. Fore wing pure white; a subbasal brown 

 point on costa and brown patch suffused with white on inner area; 

 antemedial line brown, obliqxio towards costa and incurved below 

 sTibmedian fold : a black point in middle of cell ; brown post- 

 medial band suffused with white and with black point ou its outer 

 edge at costa, bent outwards below costa, its outer edge indented 

 at discal fold, then excurved to near subterminal line, then bent 

 inwards to below end of cell and oblique to inner margin ; sub- 

 terminal line with small brown spot at costa followed by a very 

 indistinct double line with black point on the inner line at discal fold 

 and small spot at inner margin ; cilia with a rufous patch at discal 

 fold. Hind wing pure white, a brown annulus from middle of costa 

 to lower angle of cell enclosing a white patch with black discoidal 

 point on it; two brown striae at middle of inner margin; sub- 

 terminal line double, brown, the inner line somewhat diffused, 

 slightly sinuous and ending at vein 2 ; cilia tinged with rufous at 

 discal fold ; the underside white with brown band just before termen 

 from costa to vein 2, forking at costa. 



Hah. Natal, Victoria Distr. (Gooch), 1 J type. Exp. 18 millim. 



5308. Holocryptis melanosticta, n. sp. (Plate CLV. fig. 5.) 



Head, thorax, and abdomen pure white. Fore wing pure white; 

 tne medial part of costa tinged with rufous with slight dark irroration 

 below it ; a black point in cell towards extremity ; a pale rufous 

 band just beyond the cell from vein 6 to inner margin, somewhat 

 oblique below the cell; postmedial line slight, dark, very oblique 

 from costa to vein 4 towards termen, then inwardly oblique and 

 with round blackish patch beyond it on inner area ; subterminal line 



