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rather wide pale greyish fuscous shade beyond the 

 middle, a slender line of the same colour beyond it, 

 followed by a wider one near the margin just before the 

 points of the lobes, each of which bears a small pale 

 greyish fuscous dot. Expanse, 23 mm. 



One specimen received from the late Colonel Harvey 

 Tower from South Africa, probably Zululand. A large 

 and conspicuous species, having the wings less deeply 

 cleft than in the European forms of this group ; the 

 palpi are also very conspicuously longer and more thickly 

 clothed. This species should probably be made the type 

 of a new genus. 



The discovery of allied or intermediate forms may at 

 some future time render it necessary to distinguish them 

 from the original genus Alucita. 



Alucita f err uginea, n. s. 



Two specimens of a new species of Alucita in Mr. 

 Gooch's collection are not in sufficiently good condition 

 to be minutely described, but their colour is very 

 different from that of any known species with which 

 I am acquainted. The ground colour of all the wings 

 appears to be yellowish white, and the markings, which 

 are distributed transversely across the wings, as is usual 

 in this genus, are shining pale yellowish ferruginous. 

 Expanse, 14 mm. 



Alucita capensis ? F. & E., Reise d. Nov., pi. cxl., fig. 63. 

 Mr. Gooch's collection contains two specimens, pro- 

 bably referable to this species, but the scarcely satis- 

 factory figure given by Felder and Eogenhofer is accom- 

 panied by no description, and by no further assistance to 

 its future recognition than the one remark, " Accedens ad 

 cymatodactylum / " 



They appear to be allied to Alucita grammodactyla, 

 Zell., but, like most ofihePterophorida in this collection, 

 they are in very imperfect condition. 



