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Genus CNODIFEONTIA. 



Type G. dissimilis. 



Proboscis fully developed ; palpi porrect to just beyond frons, 

 which has a large rounded prominence with raised ridge across it ; 

 antennae of female ciliated ; thorax without crests ; abdomen with 

 dorsal crest on first segment only, Forewing with the apex rather 

 rounded, the termen obliquely curved, the inner margin strongly 

 curved ; veins 3 and 5 from near angle of cell ; 6 from upper angle ; 

 9 from 10 anastomosing with 8 to form the areole, 7 from beyond 

 the areole. Hindwing with veins 3, 4 from angle of cell ; 5 curved 

 from below angle of discocellulars ; 6, 7 shortly stalked; 8 anasto- 

 mosing with the cell to near middle. 



*Cn.odifrontia dissimilis, Dist. A.M.N.H. (vii.) i. p. 228 (1898). 

 Hah. Transvaal. Exp. 36 mill. 



Genus (EDEEASTEIA, nov. 



Proboscis fully developed ; palpi obliquely upturned, thickly 

 scaled, not reaching vertex of head ; frons with rounded prominence; 

 antennae of male bipectinate with short branches ; thorax with crests 

 behind the tegulge and on metathorax ; tibige roughly scaled ; 

 abdomen with dorsal crests on basal segments, the crest on third 

 segment large. Forewing with 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. Hindwing with veins 3, 4 from angle of 

 cell ; 5 from well above angle ; 6, 7 from upper angle. 



OEdeeasteia ectoehoda, n. sp. 



$ . Head and thorax black-brown slightly mixed with rufous ; 

 abdomen black-brown with the dorsal crests and anal tuft rufous. 

 Forewing silky black-brown to the postmedial line, the terminal area 

 pink-madder ; the basal area variegated with madder ; an oblique 

 black striga on inner margin before the highly sinuous antemedial 

 black line defined by madder on inner side ; the orbicular and reni- 

 form with black outer line with madder ring inside it ; an obscure 

 madder patch below the cell ; the postmedial black line strongly 

 bent outwards below costa, dentate to vein 3 then strongly incurved, 

 a fine line parallel to its outer edge with an olive-fulvous dentate 

 line beyond it ; a highly crenulate subterminal black line and a 

 blackish spot on costa before apex. Hindwing pure white with a 

 fine brownish terminal line and the cilia brown at apex. 



