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Annals of the Transvaal Mtjseum. 
By the robust build, protuberant frons, densely hairy clothing, thick 
scaling, etc., this genus certainly belongs to my Group II, but it differs 
from all known genera of that group, except Gnophosema, in the joint of 
origin of SC 2 of the forewing ; from Gnophosema in the frons, tibial arma- 
ture and other characters. In my key (Gen. Ins., fasc. 129, p. 10) it can 
be introduced as follows : — 
5. Forewing with SC 2 arising after SC 5 Oedimetopia. 
Forewing with SC 2 arising before SC 5 5a. 
5 a. Hindwing with slight basal expansion (etc.). 
Oedimetopia jansei, n. sp. (PL XXV, Fig. 1). 
$, 56 mm. Forewing ochreous whitish, irregularly irrorated with 
light blue-grey and blackish and mixed here and there with brighter 
ochreous ; a large irregularly rounded (or almost diamond-shaped) pale 
discal spot, enclosed by thick velvety black and shortly followed by a 
pale patch from costa to B 3 ; a number of thick velvety black marks from 
costa to SC (about 14, but a few weaker than the rest), mostly continued 
by vague, interrupted lunulate-dentate lines across the wing, some becom- 
ing conspicuous and thick again at inner margin ; a salmon-pink spot 
between B 2 and B 3 near the termen ; fringe alternately pale ochreous 
and fuscous proximally, nearly white distally. Hindwing about from cell 
to termen and from B 2 to inner margin (i.e. manifestly the exposed part 
in the resting attitude) coloured like forewing, cell and base of inner margin 
mostly fuscous, with the discal spot darker fuscous, a pale blotch between 
discal spot and a strongly curved postdiscal line, the rest of the wing 
(from postdiscal line to termen and from costa about to B 3 ) forming a 
single large dark fuscous blotch. Under surface in basal one- third mixed 
with yellow ochreous, in middle third whitish with two dentate fuscous 
bands which are confluent in centre of wing, distal third fuscous, on hind- 
wing enclosing a narrow whitish distal margin from apex to B 3 , this latter 
containing three fuscous crescentic marks in the cellules between SC 2 and 
B 3 ; both wings with large fuscous cell-spot, that of forewing almost 
absorbed in the first fuscous band, that of the hindwing far proximal. 
Barberton, Transvaal, 1 $. Altogether a remarkably distinct species. 
Neromia Stgr. 
To this genus, which is at present made to cover all the Chlorissa- like 
forms in which the $ hindtibia lacks the median spurs, I now believe we 
must transfer the whole of the African group which I will call the male- 
scripta group. Very few undamaged $5 have as yet been available for 
study, but Warren’s “ type ” 5 of malescripta and a few of articulicornis , 
described below, have certainly only two spurs on the hindtibia, and it 
is virtually certain that such a close ally as unilinea Warr. will not differ 
in essential structure. On the other hand, a similar species from the 
Cape, which I take to be attenuata Walk.,* has a fully spurred $. The 
malescripta group is exceedingly difficult. During the past year or two 
I have repeatedly given very close attention to it, and in this I was greatly 
* Walker’s type is in the Oxford Muse lm and the identification awaits confirmation, 
but according to my earlier notes seems reasonably safe. 
