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55S9. (Edicodia violascens, n. sp. 



5 . Head, thorax, and abdomen purplish grey tinged with brown 

 and mixed with some rufous and blackish scales. Fore wing 

 purplish grey tinged with brown and thickly irrorated with black- 

 brown ; antemedial line double filled in with grey, waved, strongly 

 incurved at vein 1 ; reniform a slight whitish bar denned by 

 diffused black : an indistinct curved dark medial shade ; postmeduil 



Fig. 122. — (Edicodia violascens, §. §•. 



line indistinct, double filled in with grey, oblique from below costa 

 to vein 6, then waved ; traces of a fine pale subterminal line 

 excurved below costa and at middle ; the extremities of the veins 

 with small wedge-shaped black spots. Hind wing greyish suffused 

 with brown ; the underside whitish tinged with brown and 

 irrorated with dark brown, 



Bab. Br. E. Africa, Taveta (Eogers), 1 5 type. Exp. 20 inilliin. 



Genus CRETONIA. 



Type. 



Cretonia, Wlk. xxxv. 1735 (1866) platyphceella, 



Swinhoea, Hmpsn. Moths Ind. ii. p. 324 (1894) vegeta. 



Proboscis fully developed ; palpi upturned, the 2nd joint typically reaching 

 to vertex of head and moderately scaled, the 3rd moderate; frous with rounded 

 prominence; eyes large, round; antennae of male ciliated; thorax clothed 

 almost entirely with scales, the mesothorax with paired crests, the metathorax 

 with depressed crest; tibire moderately fringed with hair; abdomen without 

 crests. Fore wing with the apex rounded, the termen evenly curved and not 

 crenulate ; veins 3 and 5 from near angle of cell ; 6 from upper angle ; 9 from 

 10 anastomosing with 8 to form the areole ; 11 from cell. Hind wing with 

 veins 3, 4 from angle of cell ; 5 nearly fully developed from below middle of 

 discocellulars ; 6, 7 from upper angle ; 8 anastomosing with the cell near 

 base only. 



Sect. I (Swinhoea). Palpi with the 2nd joint reaching to far above vertex of 

 head and rather broadly fringed with scales in front towards 

 extremity, the 3rd very long and acuminate. 



5590. Cretonia vegeta. 



Spadix vegetus, Swinh. P. Z. S. 1885, p. 475, pi. 28. f. 14; Hinpsn. Moths 

 lnd. ii. p. 325. 



Head and thorax red-brown with a slight greyish tinge ; palpi, 

 pectus, legs, and abdomen greyish suffused with fuscous. Fore 



