RMESAXIDES. 
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brown ; postmeclial line creamy white defined on inner side 
by slight black marks and with a black mark at costa, oblique 
to vein 6, excurved to vein 4, then inwardly oblique, some 
white points with red-brown between them beyond it on 
costa ; a diffused interrupted brown subterminal fine in- 
curved at discal fold and below vein 3, some brown suffusion 
beyond it at middle ; a terminal series of minute black 
lunules. Hind wing whitish suffused with brown, the inner 
area paler ; a faint elliptical discoidal spot ; post-medial line 
famt to vein 2, then with black bar ; traces of a subterminal 
fine with blackish bar on inner area ; a terminal series of 
minute black lunules. Underside bright red-brown, the inner 
areas whitish ; fore wing with the postmedial line blackish, 
oblique to discal fold, then inwardly oblique ; hind wing- 
more mottled with red-brown and whitish, the discoidal 
spot defined by black and white at sides, the postmedial line 
brown, curved and minutely waved. 
Ab. 1. Fore wing with minute dark annulus below the cell 
at origin of vein 2, the reniform partly filled in with black, 
black spots before the postmedial line beyond the cell and 
below end of cell. 
Ab. 2. Grey irrorated with dark brown. 
Hab. Admiralty Is. (Meek), 3 $ type. Exp. 18 millim. 
Rhesalides natalensis. n. sp. 
Head and tegulae red-brown ; thorax and abdomen red- 
brown tinged with grey ; antennae and palpi fuscous brown, 
the latter with the extremities of the joints white ; pectus, 
legs and ventral surface of abdomen whitish suffused with 
red- brown, the tarsi fuscous brown ringed with whitish. 
Fore wing grey tinged with red- brown and irrorated with 
dark brown, the terminal area suffused with red-brown ; 
a minute black point below costa near base ; an indistinct 
brown antemedial line, angled outwards below costa then 
excurved ; a blackish point in middle of cell and dark dis- 
coidal striga ; postmedial line red-brown slightly defined on 
inner side by rufous, obliquely excurved to discal fold, then 
oblique ; an indistinct red-brown subterminal fine, excurved 
at middle and incurved at discal fold and below vein 3 ; a 
small wedge-shaped black spot on costa just before apex 
defined by whitish ; a deep red-brown line just before termen 
defined on inner side by minute white points ; cilia dark 
brown. Hind wing red-brown slightly irrorated with darker 
brown ; a black point at lower angle of cell ; a slight dark 
shade before the faint fine curved bright red-brown post- 
medial line ; a terminal series of deep red-brown striae defined 
on inner side by minute white points ; cilia dark brown 
