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long-produced, termen with deep triangular indentation below apex and strong 
rounded prominence beneath; grey; cilia pale grey. 
Rhodesia, Sawmills, in February (Janse); four specimens. 
Apatetris leucogaea n.sp. 
(^13 mm. Head and thorax white. Palpi dark grey, apex white, terminal 
joint half second. Abdomen light grey, anal tuft whitish. Forewings narrowly 
elongate-lanceolate; 7 and 8 out of 6; light grey overlaid with white: cilia 
white. Hind wings with apex forming ^ of wing, termen obtusely emarginate; 
light grey; cilia whitish-grey. 
Rhodesia, Emangeni, in January (Janse); one specimen. 
Pycnostola auturga n.sp. 
$ 19-20 mm. Head ochreous- whitish mixed with fuscous. Palpi with 
second joint very long, porrected, with long rough hairscales above diminishing 
to apex and broad rather short apical tuft beneath, grey irrorated with 
blackish, apical edge whitish, terminal joint only half second, whitish, oblique, 
partly concealed. Thorax grey-whitish sometimes suffused with brown, 
shoulders dark fuscous. Abdomen grey, anal tuft grey-whitish . Forewings 
elongate-lanceolate, long-pointed, acute; brown; veins marked with lines of 
irroration of dark fuscous scales with ochreous-whitish bases, and a streak of 
similar irroration along costa from base to |; suffused dark fuscous dots 
beneath costa at and stigmata blackish, discal approximated, plical very 
obliquely before first discal, an additional dot on fold nearer plica! than base : 
cilia whitish-grey-ochreous, with some scattered dark fuscous scales near base, 
and an interrupted grey antemedian shade. Hindwings with apex long-pro- 
duced, acute; grey; cilia ochreous-grey- whitish. 
Natal, Karkloof, in January (Janse); three specimens. This species is so 
extremely similar to the somewhat variable operosa (of which I have a series) 
that I see no reliable difference, except in the more whitish cilia of hindwings 
and the distinguishing character of the palpi; in operosa these have the second 
joint relatively much shorter, with longer tuft, and the terminal joint as long 
as second and erect, and a similar structure is found in all the other (now nearly 
twenty) African species of the genus; the present species is therefore quite 
exceptional in the form of the palpi, which are in perfect condition and similar 
in the three specimens. The case is a, very curious one, and suggests an instance 
of “mutation.” 
Encentrotis n.g. 
Head smooth; ocelli very small, posterior; tongue developed. Antennae f , 
basal joint moderately elongate, without pecten. Labial palpi long, recurved, 
second joint with appressed scales, terminal joint moderate, acute. Maxillary 
palpi very short, filiform, appressed to tongue. Posterior tibiae clothed with 
long hairs above. Forewings with i h furcate, 2 from angle, 7 and 8 out of 6, 
7 to costa, 9 absent, ii from middle. Hindwings f, elongate-trapezoidal, 
termen faintly sinuate, cilia 2 remote, 3-5 somewhat approximated, 4 from 
angle, 6 and 7 short-stalked. 
Allied to Pycnostola and Aristotelia. 
Encentrotis catagrapha n.sp. 
$ 16 mm. Head and thorax pale ochreous. Palpi whitish-ochreous, second 
joint irrorated with dark fuscous except apex, terminal joint sprinkled with 
dark fuscous. Abdomen light grey. Forewings elongate, rather narrow, costa 
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