294 Annah of the South African Museum. 



AUCTORUBI. 



Gortyna tiinota, Herr Schaff. Lep. Exot. 



f. 126 South Africa. 



Genus DIPAEOPSIS, nov. 



Proboscis moderately developed ; palpi upturned, slender, the 

 second joint reaching vertex of head and slightly fringed with hair 

 in front, the third long ; frons with corneous plate with rounded 

 outer edge below it, and another with rather pointed outer edge at 

 middle ; antennae of female bipectinate to apex with short branches ; 

 patagia very roughly scaled ; metathorax with crest ; tibise some- 

 what hairy ; abdomen without crests. Forewing with the apex 

 rectangular, the termen evenly rounded ; veins 3 and 5 from near 

 angle of cell ; 6 from upper angle ; 9 from 10 anastomosing with 8 to 

 form the areole ; 11 from cell. 



'■'DiPAEOPSIS CASTANEA, n. Sp. 



5 . Head and thorax pale reddish chestnut, the rough scales of 

 patagia and metathoracic crest dark brown ; abdomen ochreous 

 white. Forewing pale reddish chestnut, with a wedge-shaped dark 

 brown patch between the cell and vein 1 before the indistinct ante- 

 medial line which is oblique from costa to below cell ; indistinct fine 

 medial and postmedial lines excurved from costa to middle, then 

 incurved, the latter greyish and with reddish brown suffusion between 

 it and the similar subterminal line ; cilia red-brown whitish at tips. 

 Hindwing white tinged with ochreous especially towards termen. 

 Under side whitish, forewing suffused with pale rufous especially 

 towards termen. 



Hab. Delagoa Bay (Mrs. Monteiro). Exp. 30 mill. Type in 

 Coll. Druce. 



Genus CONSEEVULA. 



Type. 

 Conservula, Grote Bull. Buff. Soc. ii. p. 17 



(1874) anodonta. 



A. Forewing with the ground colour pinkish minor. 



B. Forewing with the ground colour bluish grey imlclierrima. 



(1) CoNSKRvuLA MINOR, Holl. P. U.S. Mus. xviii. p. 253, pi. viii., f. 1 

 (1896). 

 Hab. East Africa; Cape Colony. T^a-p. 40 mill. 



