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(2) Eh^sena peunescens, n. sp. 



<? . Head, tegulse, and forelegs yellow mixed with rufous ; thorax 

 and abdomen purplish fuscous. Forewing purplish grey irrorated 

 with brown ; the antemedial line white defined by cupreous brown 

 on inner side and slightly angled on median nei^vure ; a very oblique 

 medial whitish line with cupreous suffusion before it ; a whitish dis- 

 coidal line with cupreous on its inner side ; an almost straight white 

 subterminal line with cupreous suffusion before it ; the costa 

 cupreous towards apex and with four white points ; the termen 

 tinged with cupreous ; the fovea on under side elongate. Hindwing 

 fuscous brown. 



Hab. Natal. Exj}. 24 mill. Type in B.M. 



(3) Eh^sena capensis, Wlk. Trans. Ent. Soc. (3) i. p. 110 (1862). 

 Sarmatia divisalis, Wlk. xxxiv. 1131 (1865). 



Hab. Cape Colony (Dr. Smith). Exj). 28 mill. 



Genus NAAEDA. 



Type. 

 Naarda, Wlk. xxxv. 1694 (1866) ineffectalis. 



A. Forewing with the discoidal spot white leucopis. 



B. Forewing with the discoidal point black with yellow ring . . xanthosis. 



C. Forewing with the discoidal spot black melanonima. 



(1) Naakda leucopis, n. sp. 



<? . Head and thorax deep black ; abdomen fuscous black. Fore- 

 wing silky black ; a whitish spot in middle of cell and a discoidal 

 spot ; very indistinct waved black antemedial, medial, and post- 

 medial lines. Hindwing fuscous black ; the under side with discoidal 

 spot and curved postmedial and subterminal lines. 



Hab. Cape Colony, Transkei (Miss P. Barrett). Exp. 26 mill. 

 Type in B.M. 



(2) Naarda xanthopis, n. sp. 



$ . Fuscous black ; antennae whitish. Forewing with traces of 

 waved antemedial and medial lines ; a yellow discoidal spot with 

 black centre ; the postmedial line oblique from costa to vein 4, then 

 incurved ; an indistinct waved subterminal line ; a terminal series 

 of black points. Under side of hindwing with discoidal point and 

 indistinct curved postmedial and subterminal lines. 



? . Antennse black ; hindwing paler with indistinct discoidal 

 spot and curved postmedial and subterminal lines on upper side. 



