MELANliPHIA. 
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veins 4, 3, 2 and inwards below 3 to the annulus, then bent 
inwards to below the annulus and sinuous to inner margin, 
some white points beyond it on costa ; a white patch on 
apical part of costal area tinged with brown towards apex, 
the whitish subterminal line arising from it, excurved at 
middle, then waved ; the veins and interspaces of terminal 
area streaked with black ; a waved black terminal line ; 
cilia chequered with whitish at base. Hind wing whitish ; 
the veins streaked with black towards termen ; the termen 
irrorated with brown towards apex and at vein 1 and suffused 
with blackish between veins 4 and 2 ; a black terminal line 
to vein 2 ; cilia chequered white and blackish. Underside of 
fore wing bluish white, the costa and terminal half to vein 2 
irrorated with brown ; hind wing white, the terminal half of 
costal area and the terminal area to vein 2 slightly irrorated 
with brown, a fine waved black terminal line from apex to 
vein 2. 
Hab. Transvaal, White R. {Cooke), 1 $ type. Exp. 
38 millim. 
Melanephia endophsea, n. sp. 
C- Head and thorax white tinged with red-brown and 
mixed with some blackish ; tegulse with blackish line towards 
tips ; frons with lateral black bars ; tarsi black ringed with 
rufous ; abdomen pale red-brown, the ventral surface white 
tinged with red-brown. Fore wing white tinged with red- 
brown and slightly irrorated with blackish ; a black subbasal 
striga from costa with blackish streak beyond it on the costa ; 
a black streak in basal half of submedian fold with blackish 
suffusion below it ; antemedial line slight, dark, oblique from 
costa to discal fold near end of cell, then inwardly oblique, a 
slight blackish streak from it to the postmedial line below 
vein 2 ; a small rather triangular discoidal mark defined by 
blackish ; postmedial line dark brown defined on outer side 
by ochreous white, slightly waved and produced to slight 
streaks on the veins, excurved to vein 4, then oblique, some 
whitish points beyond it on costa ; the veins and interspaces 
of terminal area slightly streaked with blackish ; an in- 
distinct pale curved subterminal line ; a fine black terminal 
line. Hind wing pure white. Underside white ; fore wing 
with the costal and terminal areas slightly irrorated with 
brown towards apex, a brown discoidal spot and curved post- 
medial line from costa to vein 4 ; hind wing with black striae 
on costa towards apex. 
Hab. Br. E. Africa, Taveta {Rogers), 1 type. Exp. 
26 millim. 
