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Annals of the Transvaal Museum 
Nary da prothyrodes n.sp. 
$ 22 mm. Head whitish-ochreous, face dark fuscous. Palpi slender, dark 
grey, upper edge whitish. Thorax dark fuscous, with an ochreous-whitish 
postmedian spot. Abdomen grey, anal tuft whitish-fuscous. Forewings elon- 
gate, costa gently arched, apex obtuse, termen obliquely rounded; 7 and 8 
long-stalked; grey, reticulated with dark fuscous; a patch of rather dark 
fuscous suffusion occupying basal f of wing, and a similar postmedian trans- 
verse fascia, a dorsal spot of whitish suffusion between these : cilia light grey. 
Hindwings grey; cilia light grey. 
Rhodesia, Hopefontein, in January (Janse); one specimen. A smaller 
example from Transvaal, Pretoria (17 mm.), has 7 and 8 of forewings coin- 
cident, some whitish marbling tending to form a narrow fascia at ^ , and some 
whitish strigulation near termen, but cannot be regarded as distinct ; one from 
Maritzburg (18 mm.) has 7 and 8 stalked, but is almost without white scales 
on forewings. 
Ctenocompa vafra n.sp. 
19 mm. Head, palpi, and thorax fuscous, palpi very short. Antennal jtn 
pectinations 3. Abdomen grey. Forewings elongate, costa gently arched, apex 
obtuse, termen obliquely rounded; 7 and 8 stalked; fuscous; discal stigmata 1 
Hindwings ® 
represented by small faint cloudy darker spots: cilia light grey, 
grey; cilia light grey. 
Transvaal, Pretoria, in October (Janse); one specimen. 
Ctenocompa halophanta n.sp. 
^12 mm. Head light grey, crown mixed with whitish. Palpi short, grey, 
rough-scaled. Antennal pectinations i|^. Thorax fuscous, posteriorly paler. 
Abdomen grey. Forewings elongate, costa gently arched, apex rounded-obtuse, 
termen obliquely rounded; 9 absent; grey, somewhat sprinkled irregularly with 
whitish, with very obscure strigulae of darker grey irroration; an irregular 
rather dark fuscous fascia, sometimes little darker than ground colour, from' 
middle of dorsum reaching f across wing: cilia grey. Hindwings rather dark^ 
grey; cilia light grey, towards tips whitish-tinged. 
Rhodesia, Emangeni and Umtali, in January (Janse); three specimens. 
Nearest famula from British East Africa, but forewings broader and termen 
less oblique, hindwings darker, antennal pectinations somewhat longer. 
Melasina hippias n.sp. 
(7 32 mm., 2 45 mm. Head and thorax white more or less mixed with grey, 
face dark fuscous. Palpi very short, dark fuscous. Antennal pectinations of 
(7 5. Abdomen light grey. Forewings elongate, moderate, dilated posteriorly, 
costa moderately arched, apex rounded-obtuse, termen rounded, somewhat 
oblique; i c running into 2 near origin, 8 absent; light grey irregularly irrorated 
with white, with numerous fine irregular more or less interrupted and some- 
what reticulated blackish transverse striae; three small subquadrate fuscous 
spots on posterior half of costa more or less marked, darkest on costal edge^ 
which is white between these: cilia light grey irrorated with whitish. Hind- 
wings in S grey, in $ light grey; cilia light grey. 
Portuguese East Africa, Chibuto and Lorenzo Marques (Moreira) ; two 
specimens. Allied to Bettoni’, the neural characters are peculiar, but not of 
generic importance. Type in Coll. Janse. 
