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the darker portion of the wing ; there are also a few brown scales 

 on the middle of the fold ; cilia bone-white, tinged with reddish 

 brown. Hind wings grey ; cilia very pale reddish brown. Legs 

 white, tinged with brown, apparently unspotted. Exp. al. 8 mm. 



Hob. Estcourt (Natal), one specimen (Hutchinson) . 

 Type, ? , Mus. Wlsm. 



[PL vi., fig. 67.] 

 Gracilaria apicistrigata, sp. n. 



Antennce longer than the fore wings ; white. Labial palpi 

 drooping, divergent, longer than the head ; white. Maxillary 

 palpi conspicuously projected ; white, tipped with brown. Head 

 shining white ; face very oblique, shining white. Thorax shining 

 white ; tegulae brown. Fore wings shining white along the dorsal 

 third, brown on the costal two-thirds ; the edge of the white dorsal 

 band clearly defined, throwing two obtusely angulated projections 

 into the brown space above it, one before, the other about the anal 

 angle, between which the brown colour nearly reaches the dorsal 

 margin ; a blackish elongate dash below the costa, before the apex, 

 contains two or three detached white scales ; and at the extreme 

 apex in the middle of the apical cilia an upright short black streak 

 is preceded by a whitish costal spot ; cilia at the apex greyish, 

 below it shining white, at and before the anal angle greyish. Hind 

 wings and cilia pale brownish grey. Abdomen grey. Legs 

 greyish, spotted with white on the posterior tarsal joints. Exp. 

 al. 7 mm. 



Hab. Bathurst (Gambia), one specimen (Carter). 



Type, (? , Mus. Wlsm. 



[PI. vi., fig. 68.] 

 Gracilaria bi/asciata, sp. n. 



Antennae pale brown, the basal joint white. Palpi white. Head 

 and face white. Thorax whitish, slightly tinged with pale brownish 

 anteriorly. Fore wings pale brown, with two broad white fasciae , 

 the one before, the other immediately beyond the middle, both 

 dilated to the dorsal margin, the first evenly, the second on the 

 outer side only ; beyond the second fascia is a conspicuous tri- 

 angular white costal spot, preceded by a much smaller one, and 

 followed by the white apical cilia, in which are two brownish 

 fuscous streaklets, one at the base and one in the middle, meeting 

 towards the anal angle, and giving a caudate appearance to the 



