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(1) Calesia sambesita, Wlk. xxxiii. 962 (1865). 



roseiventris, Gerst. von der Decken's Eeisen in Ost. 

 Africa iii. p. 378 (1873). 

 Hab. British East Africa, Arthi River, Machakos, Voi, Msokani, 

 Kilima'njaro ; British Central Africa, Chiromo, Cliinde; 

 Mashonaland, Zambesi, Salisbury (Marshall) ; Natal, Gadzima 

 (Marshall). ExjJ. 44 mill. 



(2) Calesia ph^osoma, Hmpsn. 111. Het. B.M. viii. p. 90 pi 147 



f. 2 (1891). 

 Hab. Cape Colony, Transkei, Annshaw (Miss P. Barrett). 

 Southern India. Exp. 42-46 mill. 



Genus MECODINA. 



Type 

 Mecoclina, Guen. Noct. iii. p. 372 (1852) lanceola. 



A. Forewing without white bands forming a fork subjecta 



B. Porewing with white bands forming a fork .... .. ][ [] furcifera. 



(1) Mecodina subjecta, Wlk. xxxiii. 1012 (1865). 

 Hab. Cape Colony (Dr. Smith). Exp. 42 mill. 



(2) -Mecodina furcifera, n. sp. 



(? . Head, thorax, and abdomen fuscous brown ; pectus and legs 

 with rufous hair. Porewing black-brown, the costal area greyish 

 irrorated with brown; a narrow very oblique white band from 

 median nervure near base to middle of inner margin; a similar 

 slightly incurved band from subcostal nervure before end of cell to 

 vein 1, where it is met by a slightly excurved band from vein 7 

 towards apex, then with short stalk to inner margin, a diffused 

 whitish mark above the outer edge of the Y. Hindwing black- 

 brown. 



Hab. Natal. Exp. 42. mill. Type in Coll. Druce. 



Genus MESOGENEA, nov. 

 Proboscis fully developed; palpi upturned, the second joint 

 smoothly scaled and extending to vertex of head, the third long and 

 naked; antennae of male ciliated, a tuft of scales on vertex of head; 

 thorax and abdomen smoothly scaled; tibis with the spurs very 

 long. Forewing rather narrow ; veins 3 and 5 from close to angle 

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

 a long and very narrow areole parallel to the cell. Hindwing with 



