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(1) NODAKIA PERARCUATA, n. sp. 



Pale ochreous thickly irrorated with fuscous. Forewing with 

 indistinct antemedial line obtusely angled on median nervure; a 

 diffused discoidal lunule ; an indistinct minutely waved postmedial 

 line bent outwards between veins 7 and 4, then incurved ; a white 

 subterminal line slightly angled at vein 7 then incurved and with 

 fuscous suffusion on its inner side bent outwards across it to apex. 

 Hindwing with whitish subterminal line with fuscous suffusion on 

 its inner side, obHque from costa to vein 1 near termen where it is 

 angled ; the under side with discoidal point and waved postmedial 

 and subterminal lines. 



Hab. British East Africa, Muthambi (Crawshay) ; Natal, Victoria 

 District (Gooch) ; Cape Colony, Transkei (Miss P. Barrett). Exij 

 28 mill. Type in B.M. 



.(2) NoDARiA EXTERNALis, Guen. Delt. and Pyr. p. 64 (1852). 



Herminia brachialis, Zell. Vet. Akad. Handl. 1852, p. 14 (1854). 

 Bocana cesopusalis, Wlk. xvi. 185 (1858). 

 Diomea bryophiloides, Butl. A.M.N.H. (4) xvii. p. 408 (1867). 

 Hab. British East Africa, Teita; Nyasaland, Chiromo; Natal, 



Durban (Gooch, Bowker, Leigh) ; Cape Colony, (Dr. Smith) ; 



Rodriguez; Japan; Formosa; India, Ceylon, and Burma; 



Borneo ; Australia ; Solomons. Exp. 26-30 mill. 



Sect. II. AntennjB of male minutely serrate and with long bristles. 



A. Forewing with the subterminal line waved. 



a. Hindwing whitish melaleuca. 



b. Hmdwing fuscous luctuosa. 



B. Forewmg with the subterminal line incurved extinctalis. 



{3) NODARIA MELALEUCA, n. sp. 



Head and thorax silky black-brown; abdomen greyish fuscous. 

 Forewing black-brown suffused with glossy purplish grey; a dark 

 waved antemedial Une slightly bent outwards in cell; a diffused 

 medial line with the blackish discoidal spot on it; a waved post- 

 medial line angled inwards in discal fold, incurved below vein 4, 

 then angled outwards on vein 1; a diffused sinuous subterminal 

 line. Hindwing white with fuscous subterminal hne angled out- 

 wards at vein 2; a time terminal hne; ciha fuscous; under side 

 suffused with fuscous, a dark discoidal point and curved postmedial 

 and subterminal lines. 



Hab. Natal, Karkloof (Marshall) ; Cape Colony, Transkei (Miss 

 F. Barrett). Exp. 24 mill. Type in B.M. 



