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their outer sides with brownish fuscous. Fore wings 

 narrow, elongate (with the apical margin oblique, the 

 extreme apex rounded), brownish fuscous, with a very 

 faint plum-coloured gloss ; speckled about the base of 

 the fold and costal margin with whitish grey scales, as 

 also about the costal margin on the apical fourth of the 

 wing. Cilia dark brownish fuscous, slightly speckled 

 with greyish, and with a narrow pale ochreous line 

 along their base, continued around the anal angle. 

 Hind wings and cilia shining pale grey, with a very 

 faint purplish tinge ; a narrow faint ochreous line 

 running along the base of the cilia. Expanse, 14 mm. 



One specimen in Mr. Gooch's collection. 



\ * ^ Ypsoloplms straminis, n. s. (PI. XII., fig. 36). 



Capite et thorace dilute stramineis. Antennis supra 

 dilute punctatis. Palpis dilute stramineis externe pur- 

 purascentibus ; articulo secundo incrassato plene vestito, 

 apicali oblique projecto nee erecto, tenui. Alis anticis 

 dilute stramineis ; macula discali in medio et striga paulo 

 ante marginem apicalem ferrugineis, squamis metallicis 

 cyaneo-purpureis adspersis. Posticis -dilute subcinereo- 

 stramineis. 



Head and thorax pale straw-colour. Antennae pale 

 straw-colour, faintly dotted above with fuscous. Palpi 

 pale straw-colour on their inner sides, streaked with 

 purplish externally; the second joint much thickened, 

 densely clothed, laterally compressed ; the apical joint 

 projecting rather obliquely, not erect, slender. Fore 

 wings pale straw-colour, having a pale ferruginous shade 

 lying obliquely parallel to and near the apical margin, 

 extending to the apex, but not quite to the anal angle, 

 containing throughout its length bright bluish purple 

 metallic scales ; a ferruginous elongate discal spot about 

 the middle of the wing, also containing some bright 

 bluish purple metallic scales ; between this discal spot 

 and the anal angle is a faint streak of ferruginous -brown 

 scales, another slight streak of the same colour -beyond 

 the middle of the cell, reaching to the dark marginal 

 shade. Hind wings pale rather cinereous straw-colour. 

 Legs pale straw-colour, some of the joints touched with 

 purplish. Expanse, 18 mm. 



One specimen given to me by Mr. H. Druce from 

 Bedford, South Africa. 



