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wing ferruginous irrorated with brown ; the costa white with some 

 grey on edge ; an obHquely curved antemedial grey band ; a post- 

 medial grey band angled outwards to termen below apex, then 

 oblique to middle of inner margin towards which it has some grey 

 beyond it. Hindwing white, the termen yellowish. 



Hab. Mashonaland, UmtaH (Marshall). Exp. 30 mill. Type in 

 B.M. 



Genus PAEAXESTIS, nov. 



Proboscis fully developed ; palpi upturned flattened against frons, 

 smoothly scaled and reaching vertex of head ; antennae of male with 

 fasciculate ciha; tibiae with the spurs long, the hind tibiae with tuft 

 of hair at extremity. Forewing with the retinaculum bar-shaped in 

 male ; a lobe and tuft of scales on inner margin ; vein 3 from before 

 angle of cell ; 4, 5 from angle ; 6 from below upper angle ; 7, 8, 9 

 stalked ; 10, 11 from cell. Hindwing with veins 3, 4, 5 from angle 

 of cell ; 6, 7 from upper angle. 



Pabaxestis eufescens, n. sp. 



^ . Brownish ochreous ; head and thorax tinged with pink ; 

 pectus and ventral surface of abdomen white. Forewing tinged 

 with rufous ; a fine dark antemedial line acutely angled on median 

 nervure, then obliquely incurved ; the postmedial hne acutely angled 

 on vein 5 then incurved and oblique, below vein 2 giving off a curved 

 hne to inner margin before tornus. Hindwing yellowish white. 



Hab. Natal, Durban (Bowker). Exp. 26 mill. Type in B.M. 



Genus EHYNCODES. 



Type. 



Bhyncodes, Guen. Noct. ii. p. 394 (1852) phalmiiformis. 



Ehyncodes phal^nifobmis, Guen. Noct. ii. p. 394 (1852). 

 Hab. Cape Colony (Dr. Smith) ; Namaqualand. Exp. 32 mill. 



Genus EEIZADA. 



Type. 

 ^ri^atZa, Wlk. xxxh. 506 (1865) semifervens. 



Sect. I. Forewing with the apex produced, the termen angled at vein 3 ; 

 metathorax with sharp crest. 



