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inner margin; a small black tuft in middle of cell and three on disco- 

 cellulars ; four blackish stride on medial part of costa ; the terminal 

 area dark brown and with some brown irroration before it and traces 

 of a waved white subterminal hne ; a terminal series of dark points ; 

 cilia with some white below middle. Hindwing yellow ; the costal 

 area tinged with brown ; a brown terminal band with sinuous inner 

 edge ; cilia yellow except at apex. Under side yellow ; fore wing 

 suffused with brown except basal, costal, and inner areas ; hindwing 

 with brown terminal band. 



Hah. Delagoa Bay. Exp. 38 mill. Type in Coll. Druce. 



Genus PLOTHEIA. 



Type. 

 Plotheia, Wlk. xiii. 1108 (1857) decrescens. 



A. Hindwing semihyaline white celtis. 



B. Hindwing brown ^ .. poUjhymnia. 



(1) Plotheia celtis, Moore, Lep. E.I.C. p. 253, pi. 16, f. 8, 8a. 



(larva) (1859) id. Lep. Ceyl. iii. pi. 158, f. 5. 

 Hab. Cape Colony, Annshaw (Miss F. Barrett) ; India ; Ceylon ; 

 Java. Exj). 24-30 mill. 



(2) Plotheia polyhymnia, n. sp. 



? . Grey-brown ; fore tibias and tarsi with slight black bands ; 

 abdomen with the dorsal tufts black. Forewing with diffused black 

 fascia on median nervure ; a black fascia on vein 5 not reaching 

 termen but met by an oblique streak from termen below apex ; the 

 orbicular and reniform small, pale, indistinct; indistinct highly 

 waved antemedial, medial, and postmedial lines, the last oblique 

 from costa to vein 5, then inwardly obhque ; an irregular subterminal 

 line ; the veins with short black streaks at termen. Hindwing pale 

 reddish brown. 



Ab. 1. Forewing with the black fasciae almost obsolete. 

 Hab. Natal, Durban (Leigh). Exp. 36 mill. 



Genus POLIOTHEIPA, nov. 



Proboscis aborted, minute ; palpi porrect, downcurved, extending 



about twice the length of head, the second joint roughly scaled ; 



antennae of female ciliated; tibiae with the spurs long. Forewing 



with vein 3 from well before angle of cell, 5 from just above angle ; 



