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NOCTUJ D/K. 
finely pencilled with grey. Underside of fore wing red-brown, 
the inner area whitish, a small black spot in middle of cell 
defined by white except above and two black and white 
striae at end of cell, the postmedial fine brown defined on outer 
side by whitish, oblique to vein 6 and incurved below vein 4 ; 
hind w r ing red-brown mixed with whitish, two blackish 
discoidal bars defined by whitish, postmedial line brown, 
excurved to vein 4, then incurved. 
Ab. 1. Fore whig with a blackish shade before the post- 
medial line, extending to beyond it at costa. 
Hab. Natal, Durban ( Gueinzius , Bou'ker, Gooch, Leigh), 
1 <j, 5 $ type. Exp. 18 millim. 
Ehesalides nigeriensis, n.sp. 
Head, thorax, and abdomen brown tinged with grey ; 
palpi with the 3rd joint dark brown, white at base and tips ; 
pectus, legs and ventral surface of abdomen whitish suffused 
with brown. Fore wing brown suffused with grey ; a sub- 
basal black point on costa defined on each side by white ; 
antemedial line brown, with black point at costa defined on 
each side by white, excurved below r costa and cell and incurved 
in the cell ; a minute dark spot in middle of cell and discoidal 
bar ; postmedial line dark brown w ith black point at costa 
defined on each side by white, excurved to vein 4, then 
oblique and sinuous, some white points with dark brown 
between them beyond it on costa ; traces of a waved brown 
subterminal line ; a small chocolate-brown apical spot and 
a terminal series of dark points ; cilia dark brown. Hind 
wing brown suffused with grey ; a black point at low r er angle 
of cell ; a minutely w r aved deep reddish brown postmedial 
line ; traces of a w r aved brown subterminal line : a terminal 
series of dark brown stria? ; cilia finely pencilled with dark 
brown. Underside of fore wing with dark spot in middle of 
cell and two bars at end of cell defined by whitish, the post- 
medial line dark defined on outer side by whitish, oblique 
to vein 4, then incurved, a faint whitish subterminal line ; 
hind wing -with the basal and inner areas irrorated with 
white, a large elliptical discoidal spot defined by white, the 
postmedial line dark defined on outer side by whitish, a faint 
whitish subterminal line. 
Hab. S. Nigeria, Olokemeji (Dudgeon), 1 ^ type. Exp. 
16 millim. 
Genus RHESALISTIS, nov. 
Type, R. rotundata, Roths. (Magulaba), Lep. Snow Mts., 
New Guinea, p. 65 (1915). 
Proboscis fully developed ; palpi upturned, the 2nd joint 
reaching to about vertex of head, moderately scaled in front 
