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uniseriate laminate branches ; pro- and meta-thorax with large crests ; 

 tibiffi fringed with long liair ; abdomen with large dorsal crest on first 

 segment. Forewing with veins 3 and 5 from near angle of cell ; 6 

 from upper angle ; 9 from 10 anastomosing with 8 to form the areole ; 

 11 free ; cilia non-crentilate. Hindwing with veins 3, 4 from angle 

 of cell ; 5 obsolescent ; 6, 7 from upper angle. 



TUMIDIFRONTIA OASTANEOTINOTA, n. Sp. 



^ . Head and thorax grey and ferruginous red ; abdomen silky 

 ferruginous. Forewing with the basal area pale ferruginous red, its 

 outer edge oblique with the fine oblique antemedial line just beyond 

 it ; the medial area grey, the orbicular and reniform rather small and 

 indistinct with ferruginous outlines and some ferruginous suffusion 

 above them on costa ; the postmedial line indistinct, nearly straight 

 from costa to vein 3, then strongly incurved and bent outwards again 

 to inner margin, with black suffusion beyond it between vein 2 and 

 inner margin ; the terminal area grey-brown with fine dark terminal 

 line. Hindwing whitish with sHght pinkish discoidal spot and some 

 brown irroration on termen. 



Hab. Mashonaland, Salisbury (Marshall). Exjj. 30 mill. Type 

 in B.M. 



Genus DIPHTHEEA. 



Type. 



Diphthera, Ochs. Eur. Schmett. iv. p. 63 (1816) orio7i. 



*DiPHTHERA VERBENATA, Dist. A.M.N.H. (7) 1, p. 222 (1898). 

 Hab. Transvaal, Barberton (Kendall). Exp. 32 mill. 



Genus EUPLEXIA. 



Type. 



Euplexia, Steph. 111. Brit. Ent. Haust. iii. p. 3 



(1829) lucipara. 



A. Forewing with black streaks from base below the cell and vein 1 intermedia. 



B. Forewing with black streak from base below the cell . . . . melmioleuca. 



C. Forewing without black streaks below the cell or vein 1. 



a. Forewing with large black basal patch defined by white on 

 medial area, and black patch at tornus defined by white on 

 inner side melanobasis. 



h. Forewing without black patches defined by white. 



a^. Forewing with narrow bluish white band from beyond 



the reniform to inner margin saldanha. 



