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beyond the cell, then incurved and waved ; postmedial line dark, 

 crenulate, slightly curved ; subterminal line blackish, oblique 

 from below apex to discal fold, then erect, a brownish tinge 

 beyond it. Hind wing pale yellow, obliquely curved ; antemedial 

 and medial lines sometimes present ; a postmedial fuscous mark 

 below costa with line from it to tornus ; a blackish apical patch 

 with diffused line from it to tornus, the area beyond it whitish ; 

 the underside white irrorated with brown, a black discoidal point, 

 indistinct medial and postmedial lines and minutely waved whitish 

 subterminal line incurved below costa. 



Ilab. N.E. Rhodesia, E. Luangwa distr. {Heave), 2 cT , 1 2 

 type. Exp. 54 mm. 



Ophiusa gonoptera, sp. n. (PI. XXXVII. fig. 13.) 



J . Head and thorax pale olive- brown ; palpi blackish irrorated 

 with grey ; antenna?, tibia?, and tarsi fuscous ; abdomen pale 

 brown. Fore wing grey-brown suffused with brown and irrorated 

 with black ; antemedial line very indistinct, blackish, oblique, 

 strongly angled outwards in submedian fold ; a black point in 

 middle of cell ; reniform indistinct, brown, defined by white points 

 above on outer side and below on inner and outer sides ; post- 

 medial line very indistinct, waved, excurved below costa, then 

 oblique, a paler patch before it in submedian interspace ; sub- 

 terminal line represented by a grey striga from costa, a dentate 

 black mark defined on outer- side by grey below apex, then by an 

 incurved series of slight black points and by a faint olive-yellow 

 spot above tornus, an oblique dark striga beyond it from apex ; 

 traces of a series of black points before termen and of some 

 black .points on termen. Hind wing grey-brown with broad 

 diffused fuscous subterminal shade ; cilia whitish from below apex 

 to the lobe. Underside brownish grey ; fore wing with slight 

 discoidal lunule, the terminal area broadly suffused with fuscous. 

 Hind wing with the termen lobed at middle. 



Hah. N.E. Rhodesia, Luangwa R. {Heave), 1 S type. Exp. 

 58 mm. 



Ophiusa tumiditermina, sp. n. (PL XXXVII. fig. 22.) 



S . Head and thorax pale olive-yellow ; palpi, tibiae, and tarsi 

 fuscous irrorated with grey ; abdomen pale brownish grey. Fore 

 wing pale olive-yellow slightly irrorated with dark brown ; ante- 

 medial line brown, indistinct, obsolete towards costa, angled 

 inwards on median nervure and outwards in submedian fold ; a 

 black point in middle of cell ; reniform pale red-brown defined 

 by some black scales and with white points on its outer side above 

 and on inner and outer sides below ; postmedial line brown, 

 obsolete at costa, then oblique sinuous ; subterminal line repre- 

 sented by two black-brown lunules below costa defined on outer 

 side by grey and brown, then by an incurved series of grey and 

 brown points on the veins and by two grey spots defined by 



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