Annals of the Transvaal Museum 
135 
Melasina linodyta n.sp. 
^ 22 mm. Head and thorax grey mixed with white. Palpi very short, grey. 
Antennal pectinations 7. Abdomen grey, hairs of segmental margins mixed 
with white. Forewings elongate, moderate, posteriorly dilated, costa gently 
arched, apex rounded-obtuse, termen rather obliquely rounded; 7 and 8 long- 
stalked; white, with scattered strigulae of grey and black irroration; a fine 
oblique black striga towards base above middle, its extremity connected with 
a fuscous mark on costa; fuscous subquadrate spots on costa at f , and |; 
greyish transverse marks from dorsum at middle, and f; a spot in disc 
before and connected with first of these, and another in middle of disc obscurely 
connected with. the other two, all of these edged with black strigulae: cilia 
whitish. Hindwings pale gre^^ towards base whitish-tinged ; cilia whitish-grey. 
Portuguese East Africa, Rikatla, in December (Junod); one specimen. 
Type in Coll. Janse. 
Melasina rudis n.sp. 
(7 17-18 mm. Head whitish-ochreous. Palpi very short, fuscous, tip 
whitish-ochreous. Antennal pectinations 2^. Thorax and abdomen light 
fuscous, anal tuft whitish-ochreous. Forewings elongate, costa gently arched, 
apex obtuse, termen rounded, rather strongly oblique; light fuscous, thinly 
speckled with darker; an obscure whitish dot on end of cell: cilia pale fuscous. 
Hindwings grey; cilia light grey, with darker subbasal shade. 
Portuguese East Africa, Rikatla, in December (Junod); one specimen. 
Type in Coll. Janse. 
Melasina psammosticha n.sp. 
(7 25-30 mm. Head, palpi, and thorax fulvous-ochreous, palpi i^, with 
appressed scales. Antennal pectinations 5. Abdomen fuscous, anal tuft pale 
ochreous. Forewings elongate, costa gently arched, apex obtuse, termen 
obliquely rounded; ochreous, suffusedly reticulated with brownish-ochreous : 
cilia ochreous. Hindwings dark grey; cilia pale grey, with darker subbasal line. 
Rhodesia, Salisbury, in January (Janse); one specimen; also one in my 
own collection from the same locality. Nearest dennatodes, but differing in 
colour, and with termen of forewings less oblique. 
Melasina furciformis n.sp. 
S 21-22 mm. Head pale ochreous. Palpi pale ochreous, externally suffused 
with fuscous except apex. Antennal pectinations 4. Thorax light brownish 
irregularly irrorated with blackish. Abdomen light fuscous, anal tuft pale 
ochreous. Forewings elongate, moderate, posteriorly dilated, costa moderately 
arched, apex obtuse, termen rounded, rather oblique; whitish-fuscous, reti- 
culated with brown sprinkled with blackish; markings brown irregularly 
sprinkled or irrorated with black, especially on veins; a moderate ill-defined 
basal fascia; a moderate fascia from f of costa to middle of dorsum, anterior 
edge almost straight, posterior obtusely angulated below middle; a moderate 
fascia from f of costa to tornus, narrowed near lower extremity, with a rather 
excurved narrower branch running from its middle to costa before apex : cilia 
pale ochreous sprinkled with dark fuscous, with a median line of dark fuscous 
irroration, outer half beyond this light brownish sprinkled with dark fuscous 
and barred with whitish. Hindwings rather dark grey; cilia whitish, with 
dark grey subbasal line, within this tinged with ochreous. 
Rhodesia, Umtali, in January (Janse) ; three specimens. Probably nearest 
pavaphvictis. 
