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veins 3 and 5 stalked, 4 absent, or 3, 4 stalked, and 5 from angle of 

 cell ; 6, 7 from upper angle ; 8 running close along the subcostal 

 nervure to near end of cell, the male having an elongate pouch con- 

 taining a brush of long hair betv^een the two veins on upper side. 



Sect. I. Hindwing with veins 3, 5 stalked, 4 absent. 



(1) Mesogenea vaeians, n. sp. 



Head and thorax brown, often suffused with black, sometimes 

 with white ; pectus, legs, and abdomen white, the tarsi banded with 

 black, the abdomen dorsally tinged with brown. Forewing brown, 

 finely striated with black, sometimes suffused with black on costal 

 area or wholly except on terminal area, the basal area and the costal 

 half to beyond middle sometimes white and the terminal area grey ; 

 an antemedial black line sometimes present, angled outwards below 

 costa and on median nervure and inwards in cell, below the cell 

 oblique ; a postmedial line sometimes present, very oblique from 

 costa to vein 3, retracted on median nervure to the antemedial line, 

 then very oblique to inner margin, sometimes an indistinct subter- 

 minal line present, angled outwards at middle. Hindwing semi- 

 hyaline white, the veins and termen towards apex tinged with 

 brown. 



Hah. Mashonaland, Salisbury (Marshall). Exp. 24-28 mill. 

 Type in B.M. 



Sect. II. Hindwing with veins 3, 4 stalked, 5 from angle of cell. 



(2) Mesogenea vinacea n. sp. 



Head and thorax purplish red; pectus, legs, and abdomen 

 brownish white. Forewing pale purplish red, irrorated with a few 

 black scales ; an indistinct antemedial line angled on median ner- 

 vure ; a black point in middle of cell ; an indistinct postmedial line 

 very obliquely curved from costa to vein 4, then retracted to origin 

 of vein 2, then excurved again. Hindwing yellowish white, suffused 

 with brown. 



Hab. Mashonaland, Umtali (Marshall). Exp. 24 mill. Type 

 in B.M. 



Genus FODINA. 



Type. 

 Fodina Guen. Noct. iii. p. 274 (1852) oriolus. 



Fodina embolophoea n. sp. 



$ . Head and thorax dark brown ; the base of shaft of antennae 

 and a bar across vertex of head white ; palpi, pectus, and legs pale ; 



