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and curved round discal mark, where it is interrupted and replaced with whitish 
speckling, thence irregularly dentate to dorsum beyond middle but again 
interrupted with whitish speckling on fold; a light fuscous line close beyond 
this on upper half but similarly interrupted with whitish speckling beyond 
discal mark, thence irregularly dentate and somewhat mixed with whitish to 
dorsum before tornus: cilia grey suffusedly mixed with dark fuscous, and 
speckled with whitish towards tips. Hind wings dark grey; cilia grey, with dark 
fuscous subbasal shade, tips whitish. 
Natal, Karkloof, in January (Janse); one specimen. 
Brenthia pleiadopa n.sp. 
d 9 mm. Head and thorax dark grey, edge of patagia finely white. Palpi 
with four whorls of dark grey white-tipped scales. Antennal ciliations 2. 
Abdomen dark grey, with some white scales on segmental margins. Forewings 
elongate-triangular, costa gently arched, apex rounded, termen rounded, some- 
what oblique; dark grey, slightly speckled with whitish; a transverse line of 
whitish irroration near base not reaching dorsum; a suffused somewhat 
irregular whitish transverse line at J; an undefined transverse shade of whitish 
irroration from middle of costa to middle of dorsum, strongly excurved in disc 
to pass round a transverse-oval discal ring of whitish irroration sometimes 
centrally tinged with pale brownish; a rather curved irregular broad fascia of 
whitish irroration from a white dot on costa at f to dorsum before tornus, 
partially confluent with preceding in disc and limited posteriorly by terminal 
markings; a marginal series of seven black subquadrate spots centred with 
silvery-metallic dots round apex and termen, first small and sometimes 
obsolescent, fourth and fifth spots confluent (subapical), others separated by 
greyish-ochreous linear spaces : cilia grey, with somewhat darker subbasal shade 
edged externally with grey-whitish. Hind wings dark grey; an irregular discal 
spot of whitish suffusion before middle; a. whitish subterminal line represented 
by a dot on costa towards apex, a transverse mark near terminal streak in 
middle, and a small mark on tornus; a moderate ochreous marginal streak 
round apex and upper half of termen, edged anteriorly on apical portion by 
a pale silvery-blue mark: cilia dark grey, with oblique suffused whitish dis- 
connected shades in apical, median, and tornal thirds. 
Portuguese East Africa, Magude, in October (Swierstra) ; four specimens. 
Ussara grapholithoides Wals. 
This distinct species, described as a Glyphipteryx but a true and character- 
istic Ussara (a genus only known otherwise from South America), has the palpi 
whitish-ochreous with a blackish longitudinal stripe, not noticed in Lord^: 
Walsingham’s description. J 
Glyphipteryx chrysozona n.sp. 
$ 18 mm. Head and thorax light greyish, tips of patagia pale greyish- 
ochreous. Palpi loosely scaled, greyish-ochreous. Abdomen grey. Forewings 
elongate, posteriorly rather dilated, costa slightly arched, apex obtuse, termen 
rounded, somewhat oblique; pale brownish-ochreous, basal f suffused with 
grey; a median transverse golden-metallic line; four small indistinct pale 
ochreous spots on posterior part of costa, margined with rather dark grey 
anteriorly, first three tipped with golden-metallic dots, fourth giving rise to 
a golden-metallic subterminal streak reaching half across wing; a triangular 
greyish blotch in disc posteriorly, apex anterior, crossed by several whitish 
longitudinal lines on veins, and edged above by three small golden-metallic 
spots, of which the third is confluent with the third subcostal dot, and beneath 
