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thickened with somewhat rough scales towards middle posteriorly. Ab- 
domen grey. Forewings elongate, narrow, costa gently arched, apex round- 
pointed, termen extremely obliquely rounded, surface with some slight 
irregularly placed tufts of raised scales, especially on costa ; 6 separate ; 
brownish, irr orated with grey, whitish, and dark fuscous ; an obscure 
streak of blackish suffusion along costa from about J to beyond middle, 
and four small spots of blackish suffusion on costa posteriorly ; cilia light 
fuscous sprinkled with whitish points, with a darker ante-median shade, 
and towards base sprinkled with dark fuscous. Hindwings with apex 
round-pointed, termen beneath apex oblique, slightly bisinuate, 3-5 closely 
approximated at base ; grey ; cilia light grey. 
Woodbush Village (Swierstra) ; in December, one specimen. Type 
in Coll. Meyrick. 
Ypsolophus tephrodes Meyr. 
cJ. 16 mm. Differs from $ described in having a well-defined moderate 
dark grey terminal fascia irr orated with black ; otherwise agrees, and is 
probably correctly referred. 
Woodbush Village (Swierstra) ; in December, one specimen. 
Symmoca crocodesma , n. sp. 
cJ. 10 mm. Head deep ochreous-yellow. Palpi ochreous-yellow, base 
dark fuscous Thorax dark purplish-fuscous. Abdomen grey, anal tuft 
whitish- ochreous. Forewings elongate, rather narrow, costa gently arched, 
apex round-pointed, termen very obliquely rounded ; light purplish-grey 
densely irrorated with black ; a moderate deep ochreous-yellow rather 
irregular-edged median transverse fascia ; an irregular ochreous-yellow 
spot on tornus and a slightly larger one on costa opposite, almost meeting ; 
cilia whitish-grey, towards base sprinkled with blackish. Hindwings grey ; 
cilia whitish-grey. 
Woodbush Village (Swierstra) ; in December, one specimen. Type in 
Coll. Meyrick. 
COSMOPTERY GID AE . 
Stagmatophora phanoptila, n. sp. 
cJ. 17-22 mm. Head brownish mixed with dark fuscous. Palpi 
brownish- whitish, second and terminal joints each with basal and sub- apical 
dark fuscous rings. Antennae blackish. Thorax brownish, suffused with 
blackish except posterior half of patagia. Abdomen dark fuscous, three 
basal segments ochreous, segmental margins mixed with whitish. Fore- 
wings elongate-lanceolate, apex very long-pointed, acute ; purplish closely 
irrorated with blackish ; a brownish streak sprinkled with dark fuscous 
along dorsum from base to tornus ; bright metallic-shining pale ochreous 
spots of raised scales on upper edge of this streak at ^ of wing, beyond 
middle, and at tornus, one on costa slightly beyond this last, and a dot at 
apex ; cilia purplish-grey sprinkled with blackish, towards tornus paler 
and ochreous-tinged. Hindwings with 6 and 7 stalked ; grey ; cilia 
greyish, suffused with pale ochreous towards base. 
Haenertsburg (Swierstra) ; in December, two specimens. 
Walsingham’s Laverna quinquecristaia is also a species of this genus, 
nearly allied to the above, and belonging to the typical section of the genus. 
Type in Coll. Meyrick. 
