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towards base ; edges of tegulse and patagia crimson ; pectus and 

 femora crimson ; tibiae black, fringed with ochreous hair ; tarsi 

 black ; abdomen orange clothed with crimson hair at base, subdorsal, 

 lateral and sublateral series of black spots, the ventral surface 

 ochreous white. Forewing pale ochreous with a flesh tint, the veins 

 and streaks in cell and submedian fold black ; a strongly curved 

 black antemedial line ; a discoidal lunule ; the postmedial line ex- 

 panding into a small spot below costa, angled at vein 5 then strongly 

 incurved ; a fine black terminal line ; cilia orange. Hindwing 

 crimson with slight black discoidal lunule and some points on apical 

 half of termen ; cilia orange. 



Hab. Mashonaland, Salisbury (Marshall). Exjj. 54 mill. 



2) Teeacotona RHODOPHiEA, Wlk. xxxi. 302 (1864). 



Hab. British East Africa, Sabaki Valley; Lake N'gami 

 (Anderson), Exp. 48-60 mill. 



(3) Teracotona submacula, Wlk. ii. 472 (1855). 

 Sjpilosoma obscurum, Wlk. vii. 1696 (1856). 



Diaphora natalica, Moschl. Stett. Ent. Ziet. xxxiii. p. 356 (1872), 

 Macronyx debilis, Feld, Eeis. Nov. pi. 100, f. 2 (1874). 

 Teracotona roseata, Butl. P.Z.S. 1878, p. 382. 

 Hab. Damaraland ; Natal (Gueinzius, Gooch). Exp. ^ 48, 

 5 58 mill. 



Genus PEOCANTHIA, nov. 

 Type P. argentea. 



Proboscis absent ; palpi porrect clothed with rough hair ; frons 

 with large rounded prominence with sharp corneous spine in centre 

 and curved corneous plate below it ; antennae of female bipectinate ; 

 head and thorax clothed with long rough hair some of ithose on 

 thorax spatulate ; tibiae with the spurs short ; abdomen dorsally 

 clothed with rough hair at base. Forewing with the costa nearly 

 straight, the termen obliquely rounded ; vein 3 from near angle of 

 cell ; 4, 5 from angle ; 6 from upper angle ; 9 from 10 anastomosing 

 with 7, 8 to form the areole. Hindwing with veins 3, 4 from angle 

 of cell ; 5 from well above angle ; 6, 7 shortly stalked ; 8 from 

 middle of cell. 



Peocanthia argentea, n. sp. 



? . Palpi and frons yellow ; vertex of head white at sides, grey 

 at middle, some of the hairs tipped with black ; thorax grey, tegulae 



