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however, is too imperfect and the colour mentioned is too vaguely 
indicated to be certain about the correct specific identification ; but I 
have little doubt that my identification is correct. My specimens are 
from cinnamon to clay colour (XXIX), with the costa, the outer margin, 
and most veins snuff-brown (XXIX). 
Micraroa minima, nov. spec. (pi. VII, fig. 2 ; pi. Ill, fig. 17). 
c£. Fore wing, palpi, head, shaft of antennae, thorax and abdomen 
above and on under side, and legs ochraceous-buff (XV) ; branches of 
antennae black ; hind wing ochraceous-orange (XV) ; fore wing and hind 
wing covered with very long hair ; cilia as long as in rufescens. 
Exp. 13-3 mill. 
Hab. Colenso (Natal) (8.3.02, Janse) ; two specimens. 
Type and co-type in coll., Janse. 
The colour and size, and even the shape of the palpi differentiate 
this species at once from M. rufescens. 
Homochira (pi. VII, fig. 2). 
Homochira, Hmpsn., Ann. S.A. Mus., p. 409 (1905) ; type rendalli. 
Proboscis absent ; palpi moderate, well beyond frons, clothed 
with thick hair beneath ; first joint a little longer than broad ; second 
joint 2J times longer than first joint, a little thicker towards end and there 
rounded ; third joint as long as first joint, drooping ; eyes rounded, large, 
about width of frons ; frons rounded and covered with thick moderate 
hair ; antennse as long as J costa of wing, bipectinate ; branches 6 times 
shaft, ending in 2 bristles (not in one bristle, as stated in the original 
description) ; thorax clothed with rather long hair ; abdomen with a 
tuft on first three segments, first tuft smaller than the others or even 
absent ; legs covered with thick hair ; fore legs very hairy, even on the 
tarsae ; process a little shorter than the tibiae, thick, and somewhat curved 
at tip, as in Euproctis ; mid tibiae with 2, hind tibiae with 4, spurs. 
Fore wings rather short and broad ; costa gently arched ; termen 
erect, evenly rounded ; inner margin slightly arched ; apex and tornus 
much rounded ; la faintly present ; 2 from £- lower median ; 3 from ^ 2 
to 4 ; 4 from lower angle ; 5 at same distance from 4 as 3 to 4 ; discocellular 
well represented, rounded inwards ; cell very shprt, about \ of wing ; 
6 at the same distance from 7 as 5 is from 4 ; stalk of 7, 8, 9, 10 from the 
upper angle ; 7 from stalk at nearly J of 8 ; 9 from 8 a little beyond of 8 ; 
10 from a little before f of 8 ; 11 from f upper median, parallel to 12 ; 
12 for a long distance paralle 1 to costa. 
Hind wing semicircular ; costa slightly arched ; termen and inner 
margin much rounded ; apex rounded ; tornus with a slight lobe at 16 ; 
la moderate ; 2 from beyond £ lower median ; 3 and 4 slightly stalked 
and from lower angle ; 5 from well above the angle ; discocellular rather 
faint, angled inwards at middle ; cell much less than J of wing ; 6 and 7 
from upper angle and on a stalk of J of 6 ; 8 approximating and just 
touching upper median at J, but not anastomosing with it. 
