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fuscous except towards apex. Antennae ochi-eous-wliitish, pecti- 

 nations 4. Thorax whitish, anteriorly mixed with dark fuscous. 

 Abdomen whitish -brownish. Fore wings elongate, costa gently 

 arched, apex obtuse, termen little rounded, oblique ; all veins 

 separate ; white, rather closely strigvilated with light fuscous, with 

 a few blackish strigulfe ; an irregular angulated blackish-f uscovis 

 transverse streak near base, not quite reaching dorsum ; a rather 

 large blackish-fuscous subquadrate spot beneath middle of disc, 

 with undefined blackish strigulfe diverging from its upper angles ; 

 a series of blackish-fuscous strigulee at about -| parallel to termen : 

 cilia whitish tinged with fuscous, with fuscous antemedian line 

 «.nd broader apical interrupted fuscous shade. Hind wings 

 fuscous- whitish, more fuscous-tinged posteriorly ; cilia whitish, 

 Avith light fuscous subbasal shade. 



German East Africa, Dar-es-Salaam ; one specimen. 



Melasina sauropa, sp. n. 



cJ . 26-27 mm. Head, palpi, and thorax pale ochreous more 

 or less mixed with dark fuscous ; palpi moderate, loosely scaled. 

 Antennfe whitish- ochreous somewhat sprinkled with dark fuscous, 

 pectinations 5. Abdomen light ochreous sprinkled with fuscous. 

 Fore wings elongate, rather narrow, costa gently arched, apex 

 obtuse, termen rounded, rather strongly oblique ; all veins sepa- 

 rate; whitish-ochreovis strewn with undefined dark fuscous 

 strigulse or suflfusedly irrorated throughout with fuscous and dai-k 

 fuscous ; a dark fuscous spot on costa at ^, and five on posterior 

 lialf of costa, becoming smaller towards apex ; a very undefined 

 basal patch of dark fuscous suffusion ; a thick irregvilar sufiused 

 dark fuscous streak proceeding from dorsum near base to -g- of 

 disc, whence it sends a branch to first costal spot, thence cvirved 

 downwards beneath middle of disc to J-, whence it sends a branch 

 to torn us, and a longitudinal arm beneath costa which is connected 

 :nore or less distinctly with all five posterior costal spots : cilia 

 ochreous-whitish, broadly barred or almost wholly sufiused with 

 dark fuscous. Hind wings fuscous ; cilia pale fuscous, with 

 ■darker subbasal line and anteapical shade. 



Nyassaland, Mpeta, on Loangwa River, in December ; two 

 specimens. 



Melasina stabularia, sp. n. 



(S . 13 mm. Head pale yellowish- ochreous. Palpi moderate, 

 with dense projecting scales, whitish-ochreous, basal half suflTused 

 with fuscous. Antennae whitish-ochreous, pectinations 5. Thorax 

 pale yellowish-ochreous sprinkled with fuscous. Abdomen 

 whitish-ochreous. Foi'e wings elongate, moderate, costa gently 

 arched, apex obtuse, termen obliquely rounded ; 9 absent ; pale 

 yellowish-ochreous sprinkled with fuscous, margins strigulated 

 with fuscous ; stigmata indicated by spots of fuscous sufiusion, 

 plical beyond first discal : cilia pale yellowish-ochreous, apical 



