424 Annah of the South African Museum. 



Epispaeis leucotessellis, n. sp. 



3^ . Head and thorax pale red-brown ; edges of tegulse and patagia 

 with a few white scales ; pectus and legs white and pale brown ; 

 abdomen pale brown. Porewing pale reddish brown ; a somewhat 

 diffused dark brown antemedial line acutely angled outwards below 

 costa and slightly in submedian fold ; an indistinct waved media 

 line ; the medial area irrorated with dark brown below the cell ; 

 the postmedial line formed by indistinct small dark brown lunules 

 with white on their outer edges, bent outwards from below costa to 

 vein 3 ; a series of somewhat lunulate white spots curved from just 

 below apex to termen at vein 2 and with others beyond them on 

 veins 3 and 4 ; the terminal area greyish brown with some rufous 

 suffusion with dark brown suffusion below it on apical area ; cilia 

 white from vein 4 to above tornus ; the termen slightly angled at 

 vein 5. Hindwing rufous and purplish brown thickly striated with 

 white except on apical area, and with white patch on termen between 

 veins 4 and 1 ; small white spots above and below vein 2 before the 

 indistinct waved postmedial line; cilia with white lunules in the 

 excavations between vein 4 and tornus. Under side white slightly 

 irrorated with brown and the apical area of forewing tinged with 

 brown ; both wings with discoidal points and irregularly waved 

 medial and postmedial lines, the former bent outwards round cell of 

 forewing. 



Hah. Delagoa Bay (Junod). Exp. 34 mill. Type in B.M. 



Genus DISTICTA, nov. 



Proboscis fully developed; palpi obliquely upturned, extending 

 about the length of head, the second joint roughly scaled, the third 

 short with some rough scales at base ; frons without tuft ; antennae 

 bipectinate in both sexes ; fore tibiae thickly fringed with long hair. 

 Porewing with the apex produced and acute, the termen strongly 

 excurved at middle ; 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 the termen excurved at middle ; veins 3, 

 4 from angle of cell ; 5 fully developed from well above angle ; 6, 7 

 from upper angle. 



DisTiCTA ATAVA, Peld. Ecis. Nov. pi. 119, f. 4 (1874). 

 Hah. Natal, Victoria District (Gooch), Durban (Bowker) ; Cape 

 Colony, Knysna (Trimen). Exp. 32-38 mill. 



