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XOCTUIDiE. 
black-brown hair ; abdomen reddish ochreous irrorated with 
dark brown, the crests dark brown at tips. Fore wing whitish 
mixed with rufous and irrorated with dark-brown ; slight dark 
subbasal marks below costa and cell ; antemedial line rather 
diffused, blackish, incurved in the cell and excurved below it, 
then incurved ; a black point in middle of cell ; reniform 
defined by rather diffused black, small ; two indistinct waved 
blackish medial lines ; a blackish annulus below end of cell ; 
postmedial line rather diffused, black, sinuous, oblique to vein 
4, angled outwards at veins 4, 3, then inwardly oblique to vein 
1 at the medial line and excurved to inner margin, an oblique 
white shade beyond it from costa to termen at vein 5 ; an 
oblique wedge-shaped dark brown shade from costa before the 
subterminal line which is whitish towards costa and excurved 
below vein 7, then very indistinct, dark, waved ; a series of 
blackish points before termen. Hind wing dark brown with a 
cupreous gloss ; a rather diffused oblique whitish medial band 
from vein 7 to submedian fold and slight spot at vein 1 ; the 
termen narrowly and cilia white from apex to vein 6 ; an 
oblique rather diffused whitish bar from vein 3 to termen at 
submedian fold. Underside of fore wing suffused with reddish 
and black-brown, the inner area whitish ; hind wing suffused 
with reddish and black-brown, the terminal area whitish. 
Hab. Natal, Durban {Gooch), 1 q type. Exp. 48 millim. 
Nagia evanescens, n. sp. 
Head and thorax pale red-brown mixed with white ; 
antennae fuscous ; pectus and legs pale red-brown, the tibiae 
with some whitish, the tarsi blackish ringed with white ; 
abdomen pale red-brown. Fore wing pale red-brown mixed 
with some white, the apical area strongly irrorated with white ; 
subbasal line indistinct, blackish, excurved below costa and 
ending at submedian fold ; antemedial line diffused, blackish, 
excurved below the cell, then oblique and waved ; a minute 
black spot in middle of cell ; reniform faintly defined by 
blackish, small, elliptical ; traces of two sinuous dark medial 
lines ; an elliptical blackish annulus below end of cell ; post- 
medial line blackish, sinuous, oblique to vein 4 and angled 
outwards at veins 6, 4, 3, then inwardly oblique to submedian 
fold below the annulus and erect to inner margin : an oblique 
wedge-shaped dark brown patch on costal area with two white 
points at costa before the subterminal line which is white and 
distinct to vein 5 and excurved below vein 7, then indistinct, 
dark, waved ; a series of small blackish spots before termen 
connected by a faint waved line. Hind wing fuscous brown 
with a cupreous gloss ; a narrow oblique obsolescent bluish 
white medial band from vein (! to submedian fold with slight 
