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MetapUoplasta simo, Wllgrn. Wien. Ent. Mon. iv. p. 17 (1860). 

 Acontia cornifrons, Auriv. CEfv. Ak. Porh. xxxvi. (7) p. 66 (1879). 

 Tarache porphyria ( ? ), Butl. P.Z.S. 1898, p. 420. 

 Hah. West Africa, Sierra Leone ; Sokotra ; British East Africa, 



Athi-y-Mawe ; Damaraland ; N'Gamiland (Lugard) ; Cape 



Colony; Ceylon. Exp. 34 mill. 



Sect. II. Frons with the process bilobed at extremity. 



A. Antennse of male bipectinate. 



(4) Megalodes pienaaei, Dist. A.M.N.H. (7) i. p. 223 (1898). 



Hah. Mashonaland, Salisbury (Marshall) ; Transvaal, Pienaar 

 Eiver. Exp. 30 mill. 



B. Antennse of male uniserrate. 



a. Forewing with the pale apical patch extending to vein 2 . . bucephalidia. 

 h. Forewing with the pale apical patch not extending to vein 3 galactiplaga. 



(5) Megalodes bucephalidia, n. sp. 



$ . Head and thorax pale purplish grey ; antennae brown ; 

 abdomen yellowish white. Forewing pale purplish grey ; two indis- 

 tinct lines from costa beyond middle, very oblique to upper edge of 

 cell, then less oblique, angled outwards below the cell, then again 

 oblique ; a large buff-coloured terminal patch extending from apex 

 to submedian fold, its inner edge rounded and including the large 

 reniform stigma, which is defined by a curved dark brown mark on 

 inner side and by rufous suffusion on outer ; the submedian fold 

 streaked with brown towards termen ; a brown terminal line ; the 

 cilia chequered brown and grey. Hindwing whitish strongly tinged 

 with brown ; a fine brown terminal line. 



Hah. N'Gamiland (Lugard) ; Natal coast belt (Barker). Exp. 

 26 mill. 



(6) Megalodes galactiplaga, n. sp. 



? . Head and thorax red- brown ; tegulae ochreous ; abdomen 

 ochreous and brown. Forewing pale brownish ochreous mottled 

 with purphsh brown ; a subbasal dark line from costa to submedian 

 fold ; the antemedial line oblique from costa to submedian fold, 

 dentate inwards on vein 1 and outwards above inner margin ; the 

 orbicular greyish with pale annulus partially defined at sides by 

 black and with an obhquely curved black line from it to submedian 

 fold ; the reniform a large cream-coloured lunule with rufous centre, 



