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lower extremity ; a diifused maculate postmedial fuscous band, 

 angled outwards at veins 6 and 4, then bent inwards to middle of 

 inner margin ; two obscure sinuous punctiform subterminal lines 

 with larger spots at costa and inner margin ; cilia brown at middle. 

 Hindwing with medial band formed by two lines with some brown 

 on their edges, angled outwards below costa, and approximated 

 towards inner margin and with a black point between them at lower 

 angle of cell ; a diffused fuscous and brown subterminal band from 

 costa to vein 2 ; a spot on inner margin near tornus. 



Hab. Natal, Victoria District. Exp. 16 mill. Type in B.M. 



Sub-Family HYPENIN^. 



A. Forewing with vein 9 from 10 anastomosing with 8 to form the areole. 



a. Palpi with the second joint not fringed with hair above, upturned, 

 a'. Palpi with the second joint broadly scaled in front. 



a". Palpi with the third joint moderate, blunt. 



a3. Hindwing with the termen strongly angled at 



middle Episparis. 



h^. Hindwing with the termen excurved at middle Disticta. 



IP. Palpi with the third joint long, acute Pseudaglossa. 



b'. Palpi with the second joint smoothly scaled in front. 



tt3. Palpi with tuft of hair on inner side of third joint Egnasia. 

 63. Palpi with the third joint naked Zethes. 



b. Palpi with the second joint porrect or oblique and fringed with hair above, 

 the third more or less upturned and naked at extremity. 



a^ Palpi with the third joint naked Magulaba. 



b'. Palpi with the third joint tufted with scales. 



a^. Abdomen with dorsal crests Hypena. 



b^. Abdomen without dorsal crests. 



a3. Palpi with the second joint porrect Bhynchina. 



53. Palpi with the second joint oblique ; abdomen of male with 

 lateral tufts of hair towards extremity . . . . RhcBsena. 



c. Palpi rostriform, the third joint downturned and clothed with hair to 

 extremity. 



a^. Palpi with the second joint fringed with long hair above Naarda. 

 6'. Palpi smoothly clothed with hair Leiorhynx. 



B. Forewing without an areole. 



a. Forewing with veins 7, 8, 9, 10 stalked. 



a'. Forewing with veins 4, 5 stalked, the cell short . . . . Hydrillodes. 



fe'. Forewing with veins 4, 5 from cell Nodaria. 



b. Forewing with veins 8, 9, 10 stalked, 7 from cell Alelimma. 



c. Forewing with veins 8, 9 stalked, 7 and 10 from cell . . . . Tetracme. 



Genus EPISPAEIS. 



Type. 

 Episjparis, Wlk. x. 475 (1856) liturata. 



