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sprinkled with brown ; spaces between veins, except in cell, irregularly 
marked transversely with white and irrorated with dark fuscous between 
these, especially forming an oblong dark spot beneath middle ; a small 
white discal spot on transverse vein, edged posteriorly with dark fuscous 
suffusion ; costa spotted with dark fuscous suffusion : cilia whitish-ochreous, 
somewhat sprinkled with dark fuscous, with traces of brownish bars. Hind- 
wings pale fuscous ; cilia pale whitish-ochreous, with some brownish points. 
Waterberg (Jutrzencka) ; one specimen. Type in Coll. Meyrick. 
Melasina s-usurrans , n. sp. 
<J. 24 mm., $. 26 mm. Head light ochreous. Palpi moderately long, 
densely scaled, pale ochreous, irrorated with dark fuscous except towards 
apex. Antennal pectinations in $ A. Thorax whitish tinged with brownish, 
anterior and posterior margins suffused with blackish-fuscous irr oration. 
Abdomen grey- whitish. Forewings sub-oblong, in $ rather broad, in $ 
more elongate, costa moderately arched, apex obtuse, termen in £ almost 
straight, in $ slightly rounded, oblique ; all veins separate, 7 to apex ; 
white, transversely striated throughout with brownish-ochreous and more 
or less irrorated with dark fuscous and blackish ; the coalescence of these 
striae indicates a small basal patch, a narrow fascia from | of costa to before 
middle of dorsum, with posterior edge angulated below middle, a narrow 
fascia from § of costa to dorsum before tornus, and a slender more or less 
marked inwards-sinuate fascia from costa before apex to tornus ; cilia 
ochreous- whitish, with pale brownish-tinged bars sprinkled with dark 
fuscous. Hindwings pale fuscous ; cilia pale whitish-ochreous, towards 
base sprinkled with fuscous. 
Woodbush Village (Swierstra) ; in December, two specimens. Type, 
in Coll. Meyrick ; co type, $, in Transvaal Museum. Closely allied 
to aedifica. but differs in the regular striation of forewings, thereby 
appearing much less white, and in the $ the forewings are obviously broader. 
Melasina expers, n. sp. 
(J. 23 mm. Head fuscous mixed with whitish. Palpi moderate, with 
appressed scales, fuscous, apex of joints whitish. Antennal pectinations 3. 
Thorax fuscous irrorated with whitish and dark fuscous. Abdomen fuscous, 
anal tuft ochreous. Forewings elongate, costa moderately arched, apex 
rounded-obtuse, termen obliquely rounded ; all veins separate ; fuscous 
irregularly irrorated with whitish, and strigulated with dark fuscous irro- 
ration ; an elongate mark of darker suffusion beneath middle of disc, ter- 
minated at each end with whitish, but no other defined markings ; cilia 
fuscous, with whitish bars. Hindwings fuscous ; cilia fuscous- whitish, 
with two fuscous shades. 
Waterberg (Jutrzencka) ; one specimen. Type in Transvaal Mus um. 
Melasina liochra Meyr. 
Haenertsburg, in December (Swierstra). 
Atabyria bucephala Snell. 
Pinetown, Natal, in December (Leigh) ; a large $ (20 mm.). This 
distinct species, described from Eastern Siberia and recorded by me also 
from Borneo, has not previously been noticed in South Africa ; its distri- 
bution is singular, and suggests artificial means. 
