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the area between it and the dentate postmedial Hne blackish, the line 

 being incurved to costa and below vein 3 ; a large elliptical cream- 

 coloured apical patch extending to above vein 3, traversed by the 

 diffused dentate brown subterminal line bent inwards to a blackish 

 patch on costa and the pale patch defined below by a curved black 

 streak. Hindwing ochreous suffused with fuscous brown ; the under 

 side whitish irrorated with dark brown, a discoidal spot and post- 

 medial line incurved below vein 3. 



Hab. Natal, Victoria District (Gooch). Exj). 40 mill. Type 

 in B.M. 



C. Antennae of male ciliated. 



(7) Mbgalodbs similis, n. sp. 



3" . Head and thorax purplish grey ; pectus and legs black-brown 

 and whitish ; abdomen yellowish white irrorated with dark brown. 

 Forewing purplish grey suffused at base and on costal and inner 

 areas with brown ; the orbicular an elongate lunule with brown and 

 ochreous centre, an oblique black line on an ochreous band from it 

 to inner margin emitting black streaks on vein 2 and in submedian 

 fold ; a large ochreous patch on terminal area from apex to sub- 

 median fold, its inner edge rounded and including the large reniform 

 stigma which is defined by a curved dark brown mark on its inner 

 side, by rufous suffusion on outer, with some rufous on it and with 

 two short blackish streaks from its upper extremity ; the patch has 

 the area below it brown and a curved subterminal line on it from 

 costa to vein 4 ; a fine terminal line ; cilia grey with a blackish line 

 through them. Hindwing yellowish white irrorated with brown 

 scales and with a fine brown terminal line. 



Hab. Mashonaland, Salisbury (Marshall). Exjj. 24 mill. Type 

 in B.M. 



AUCTORUM. 



Metoplioplasta sihcs, Wllgrn. Qity. af. k. 



Vet. Akad. Forh. 1875, p. Ill Transvaal. 



Genus ECTOLOPHA, nov. 



Proboscis fully developed ; palpi upturned, rather slender, reach- 

 ing vertex of head ; frons with rounded prominence ; antennae of 

 male laminate and minutely serrate ; thorax with crest behind collar 

 and sharp dorsal crest ; mid and hind tibiae fringed with long hair ; 

 abdomen smoothly scaled. Forewing with scale tooth at tornus ; 



