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Annals of the Transvaal Museum 
Melasina quassa n.sp. 
(^31 mm. Head, palpi, and thorax pale grey mixed with dark fuscous, 
palpi ij, with appressed scales. Antennal pectinations 5. Abdomen dark 
grey. Forewings elongate, costa gently arched, apex obtuse, termen obliquely 
rounded ; grey, closely and suffusedly reticulated with dark fuscous irroration, 
with a few grey- whitish scales ; obscure irregular spots of dark fuscous suffusion 
placed as stigmata, plical somewhat beyond first discal: cilia whitish-grey, 
obscurely barred with grey sprinkled with dark fuscous. Hindwings rather 
dark grey; cilia light grey speckled with white, with dark grey subbasal shade. 
Rhodesia, Salisbury, in October (Janse); one specimen. Perhaps nearest 
cyclafma. 
Melasina delocrossa n.sp. 
c? 25 mm. Head and thorax blackish-grey mixed with whitish hairs, thoracic 
crest and apex of patagia speckled with whitish. Palpi if, ascending, with 
appressed scales, grey, apex whitish. Antennal pectinations 5. Abdomen dark 
grey. Forewings elongate, costa gently arched, apex rounded-obtuse, termen 
slightly rounded, rather oblique; grey, tips of scales dark fuscous; irregular 
indistinct dark fuscous transverse striae, in cell more broken into dots, area 
of cell and median area of costa somewhat suffused with darker but undefined 
cilia rather dark grey, distinctly barred with grey-whitish. Hindwings grey;*’ 
cilia pale greyish, with dark grey subbasal line. 'i 
Rhodesia, Hopefontein, in January (Janse); one specimen. Allied to 
tviscia. 
Melasina scriha n.sp. 
d 27 mm. Head whitish-ochreous. Palpi i\, with appressed scales, fuscous 
mixed with dark fuscous, apex ochreous-whitish. Antennal pectinations 4. 
Thorax whitish-grey, anteriorly irrorated with dark grey with some blackish 
scales. Abdomen dark grey, anal tuft whitish-ochreous. Fore wings elongate, 
moderate, costa gently arched, apex rounded, termen slightly rounded, rather 
oblique; grey irregularly sprinkled with whitish, transversely strigulated with 
dark fuscous irroration ; a transverse strigula of blackish scales towards dorsum 
at J; a somewhat oblique blackish strigula in disc before middle, and longer 
more strongly reversed-oblique blackish striga at end of cell, the V-shaped 
grey space beneath middle of disc also somewhat marked with black on upper 
part of sides: cilia whitish barred with fuscous, base mixed with grey. Hind- 
wings rather dark grey; cilia whitish-fuscous, with fuscous subbasal line. 
Rhodesia, Hopefontein, in January (Janse); one specimen. 
Melasina isopetra n.sp. 
d 18 mm. Head ochreous-whitish. Palpi 2 \, with dense loosely appressed 
scales, greyish-ochreous. Antennal pectinations 2|. Thorax light grey. 
Abdomen grey, anal tuft ochreous-whitish. Forewings elongate, costa gently 
arched, apex obtuse, termen somewhat rounded, oblique; light grey, thinly 
and irregularly speckled with whitish and dark grey ; costal edge whitish : cilia 
pale grey mixed with whitish, on costa whitish. Hindwings grey; cilia whitish- 
grey. 
Rhodesia, Sawmills, in February (Janse); one specimen. The unusually 
smooth and uniform colouring and whitish costa give this species a peculiar 
appearance. 
