vew Afrhan }[oths, 1,51 



boliind ; frons wliitc at sides ; throat and fore coxa: wliito ; 

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

 lueu witli medial white band. Fore win<if black ; dilfiised 

 yellow streaks below biise of costa and cell ; a wed^^e-shaped 

 |)ati-h in end of cell and patch beyond the cell, Icavinjir a round 

 ])laek diseoidal s|)ot between them. Hind wing hyaline, the 

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

 U}>per diseocellular. 



I fab. Natal, Malvern {Barker), 1 ^ type, Estcourt {Hid- 

 chiitson), 1 f^; Cai'k Colony, (Jrahamstown {Miss M. Da/i/}, 

 1 J . E.rjj. 18 mm. 



Tinthia endopyra, sp. n. 



? . Head, thorax, and abdomen blue-black ; j)alpi with 

 some scarlet at base and towards extremity ; vertex of liead 

 with some scarlet hairs ; dorsum of thorax and upper edge 

 of patagia with slight scarlet streaks ; fore coxaj scarlet at 

 sides, the mid and hind tibiie banded with scailet ; abdomen 

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

 Mhitish and scarlet streak, the ventral surface banded with 

 scarlet. Fore wing dark cupreous brown ; a scarlet fascia 

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

 round scarlet diseoidal spot. Hind wing hyaline, the veins 

 and margins cupreous brown. 



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



Lepidopoda albifrons, sp. n. 



cJ . 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 tibia3 with broad white band, the hind tibiic 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 minntcly dentate 

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

 black; a black bar on uj)per discocellnlar ; 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 browni^h. 



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



