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4 from lower angle ; 5 from well above angle ; discocellular rounded ; 
cell less than § of wing ; 6 from a little below upper angle ; 7 and 8 on 
a stalk of J of 7, and oiiginating from upper angle ; 9, 10, and 11 stalked 
and from § upper median ; 11 given off at 1- of 9 ; 10 from before § ; 
9 anastomosing with 8 at § of 9 to form a long areole, which is about 
6 times longer than broad ; 12 parallel to upper median. 
Hind wing sub -triangular ; costa almost straight ; termen, apex, and 
tornus much rounded ; inner margin slightly hollowed out at lower half ; 
vein la very short and straight ; lb somewhat curved ; 2 from before J 
lower median ; 3 from middle of 2 and 4 ; 4 from lower angle ; 5 from J 
discocellular, which is angled inwards and oblique ; 6 and 7 on a stalk 
of 1 of 7 and from upper angle ; 8 slightly anastomosing with upper 
median or just touching it quite near base, then straight ; frenulum absent 
in the four specimens I have seen, but in the wing preparation there is a 
short, but distinct, vein at the base near costa, which suggests an unde- 
veloped frenulum, retinaculum absent in the 
I do not know any African genus to which this one comes near, though 
it differs least from Olapa. From this genus it is distinct in having 11 
and 10 stalked, in the hind wing having the connection of 8 with the 
upper median near base, by its two-jointed process on the fore tibia and 
the absence of the frenulum, while the palpi have three joints, though the 
last joint is very minute. Sir Hampson mentions in “ Moths of India,” 
Vol. I, p. 489, that the South American species of the genus Caviria has 
the veins 9, 10, and 11 of fore wing as in Lepidopalpus, but there the 
frenulum is present, and the fore wing has 6 and 7 from angle and the 
hind wing has 4 and 5 from the lower angle. 
The species hyalina is very much like Redoa melanocraspis, from which 
it differs, however, in the stalked veins 9, 10, and 11 and in the absence 
of the frenulum. It is also very much like Olapa nigricosta , but is dis- 
tinguished at once from that species by its 4 spurs and the other characters 
by which it differs from melanocraspis. 
I hardly think this genus a direct development of Cimola. 
Lepidopalpus hyalina, nov. spec. (pi. Ill, fig. 15). 
Head, frons, branches of antennse, thorax, and abdomen whitish ; 
shaft of antennse white ; palpi white with a black tip and some black 
scales mixed with the white hairs at first and second joints above and at 
the sides ; fore legs white with black hairs on femora above and on tibiae 
on inner sides and a black streak on inner side of tarsae ; mid and hind 
legs white ; fore and hind wings pure white, semi-transparent ; fore wing 
with thick black scales and hairs at costa^ forming a streak from base 
to J of costa ; cilia white ; under side of wings white, more hyaline than 
above. 
Exp. 32.4 mill, in type ; 30-34.6 mill, in co- types. 
Hab. Ngqeleni (21.3.04, Swinny), in coll., Janse, type, 
i Ngqeleni (11.1.04, Swinny), co-type in coll., Transv. Mus. 
Durban (15.2.09, E. L. Clark), co-tvpe in coll., Janse. 
Durban, one specimen partly used for preparation. 
