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(2a) Heliophobus fereogeisea, n. sp. 



(J . Head, thorax, and abdomen grey mixed with fuscous black. 

 Forewing grey irrorated with black and tinged with ferruginous red ; 

 very indistinct waved grey antemedial, postmedial, and subterminal 

 lines ; a small dark discoidal annulus. Hindwing grey irrorated and 

 suffused with fuscous ; the under side paler, the costal and terminal 

 areas strongly irrorated with fuscous, a dark discoidal point. 



Hah. Basutoland, Masite (Weigall). Exp. 28 mill. Type in B.M. 



(3a) Charidea c^ca, n. sp. 



(? . Head and thorax grey-brown mixed with black ; tegulae darker, 

 some of the scales tipped with white ; abdomen grey-brown irrorated 

 with dark brown. Forewing grey, thickly irrorated with dark brown ; 

 a black subbasal line from costa to submedian fold ; the antemedial 

 line with small triangular spot on costa, bent inwards from below 

 costa to vein 1 ; claviform large, deep black ; orbicular and reniform 

 deep black, the former produced to a slight point on inner side ; the 

 postmedial line minutely waved, with small triangular spot at costa 

 bent outwards below costa, excurved to vein 4, then incurved and 

 angled outwards at vein 1, the area from just beyond it to sub- 

 terminal line suffused with fuscous, the line indistinct greyish, 

 angled outwards at vein 7 and excurved at middle ; some pale points 

 on costa towards apex ; a black terminal line. Hindwing pale brown 

 with an ochreous tinge ; the under side ochreous white, the costal 

 and terminal areas suffused with brown and irrorated with grey, 

 a slight discoidal spot and curved postmedial line. 



Hah. Natal, Charleston. Exp. 34 mill. Type in B.M. 



Allied to G. leucopis, the male of which will probably be found to 

 have similar antennae. 



(2a.) Sesamia rubritincta, n. sp. 



3- . Head and thorax ochreous suffused with purple-red, the 

 vertex of head and tegulae, except at base, without red ; antennae, 

 tibiae, and tarsi fulvous ; abdomen ochreous suffused with purple- 

 red. Forewing ochreous whitish ; the veins and interspaces with 

 diffused red streaks except on basal two-thirds of costal area and the 

 inner area, the red becoming purplish pink on medial part of terminal 

 area and the veins of that part dark brown ; a highly curved minutely 

 dentate antemedial red line ; a whitish discoidal point ; a dentate 

 postmedial line excurved below costa, then oblique; a diffused 

 blackish subterminal band from below apex to above vein 2 ; an 

 interrupted dark terminal line. Hindwing ochreous white, the inner 



