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Bab. British East Africa, Kikuyu (Crawshay), Arthi Eiver 

 (Bettoa) ; Mashonaland, Salisbury (Marshall). Exp. 24 mill Type 

 in B.M. 



(2) Hyela albifissa, n. sp. 



(? . Head and thorax bright ferruginous and whitish ; abdomen 

 ochreous irrorated with fuscous. Forewing bright ferruginous; a 

 whitish fascia from base of inner margin to origin of vein 2 then as 

 a streak on median nervure and at end of cell forking on veins 4, 5 

 and ending at the postmedial line ; the veins of costal area streaked 

 with fuscous and grey scales ; an ochreous fascia in and beyond cell ; 

 the inner area ochreous with a bright rufous streak below base of 

 vein 2 ; two blackish discoidal points ; the postmedial line white, 

 bent outwards below costa to near termen and joined by a blackish 

 streak from- apex, then obhque, the area beyond it pink suffused with 

 white and irrorated with black on each side of the indistinct whitish 

 subterminal line ; cilia ferruginous at base, whitish at tips. Hind- 

 wmg pale yellowish, the costal and terminal areas slightly irrorated 

 with brown; the under side with indistinct discoidal point and 

 curved postmedial line. 



Hab. Natal, Karkloof (Marshall). Ex2). 26 mill. Type in B.M. 



(3) Hyela albibasis, n. sp. 



? . Head and thorax ochreous white ; palpi, antennae, and base 

 of patagia brownish ; abdomen ochreous white irrorated with brown. 

 Forewing with the basal third ochreous white bounded by a fine 

 obHquely curved black line ; the rest of wing pale olive-brown irro- 

 rated with black ; an indistinct sinuous black medial line angled at 

 lower angle of cell ; a postmedial triangular white patch on costa 

 extending down to vein 5 and embracing a small olive spot on costa; 

 the postmedial line indistinct, slightly defined by white on outer 

 side, excurved from costa to vein 4, then incurved, a whitish patch 

 beyond it above tornus ; an indistinct sinuous subterminal line with 

 black spots on its inner side in discal and submedian folds ; a ter- 

 minal series of black points. Hindwing fuscous; the under side 

 white irrorated with brown with slight discoidal spot and curved 

 postmedial line and traces of subterminal line. 



Hab. Natal, Durban (Leigh). Exp. 18 mill. Type in B.M. 



Genus TATHOEYNCHUS. 



Type. 

 Tathorynchus, Hmpsn. Moths Ind. ii. p. 268 



(1894) vinctalis. 



