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Sect. III. Antennaa of male minutely serrate and fasciculate. 



A. Forewing ochreous, the area towards tornus bluish grey . . . . cauta. 



B. Forewing bluish grey suffused with brown. 



a. Forewing with oblique reniform conjoined to the grey costal 



area leucosoma. 



h. Forewing with white discoidal point on an elongate black patch leucopis. 



(4) Chaeidea cauta, n. sp. 



Head and tegul® reddish, palpi, frons, and legs tinged with fus- 

 cous ; thorax pale ochreous, the tufts mixed with black ; abdomen 

 ochreous white, the ventral surface tinged with rufous. Forewing 

 pale ochreous ; the costal area tinged with white, pinkish, and brown ; 

 the veins irrorated with dark scales ; the reniform represented by a 

 white spot at lower angle of cell ; the area towards tornus bluish 

 grey, its upper edge running obliquely from below apex to lower angle 

 of cell ; vein 4 defined by white streaks and with bright rufous 

 streaks above it on the grey area. Hindwing yellowish white, tinged 

 Avith brown towards termen and costa ; in female largely tinged with 

 fuscous. 



Hah. West Africa, Nigeria ; Mashonaland, Salisbury (Marsljall) ; 

 Natal, Malvern (Marshall), Durban (Bowker); Cape Colony, Annshaw 

 (Miss F. Barrett). Exp. 30 mill. Type in B.M. 



(5) Charidea leucosoma, Feld. Eeis. Nov. pi. 109, f. 31 (1874). 

 Bargida (jrmninicolens, Bull. A.M.N.H (5) ii. p. 295 (1878) 

 Rah. Madagascar; Natal, Mooi Eiver. Exp. M mWl. 



(6) Charidea leucopis, n. sp. 



? . Head and thorax grey-brown ; abdomen grey strongly irro- 

 rated with brown. Forewing bluish grey strongly tinged with 

 brown ; some black points on costa and some pale points towards 

 apex ; a black streak from base in submedian fold to the indistinct 

 pale sinuous antemedial line ; the claviform black with a fine streak 

 from its outer edge ; a slight black streak in middle of cell ; an 

 elongate black mark in and beyond end of cell with a pure white 

 discoidal spot on it ; the postmedial line very indistinct, dark, 

 minutely dentate, bent outwards below costa, excurved to vein 3, 

 then incurved ; an indistinct irregularly waved subterminal line ; a 

 terminal series of black points. Hindwing brownish with whitish 

 streaks in and below cell ; the under side with discoidal black point. 



Hah. Cape Colony, Transkei (Miss F. Barrett). Exp. 34 mill. 

 Type in B.M. 



