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2. Hind tibiae of tiie cJ not widened, hindwing without tlie pad of scales. 'PJie tibiae of Ihe first species 
witli hairs inside. 
0. striata Hmps. (19 li) looks somewhat different from the two preceding species. Body ami wings striata. 
grey and red-brown. Forewing strewn with black scales, witli hardly any marking. A blackish V)rown shadow 
behind the lower cell-angle to the margin at vein 2. 34 mm. Central and East Africa, Rhodesia. Besides a 
very dark specimen from Cameroon. The figured one from Tendagnru. 
0. fuscicona Hmps. (19 h). Body pale red-brown, forewing greyer. A semicircular or conical blackisli jasekanu. 
brown spot at the middle of the costal margin. A fine black dot at the lower cell-angle. A faded blackish 
brown submarginal shadow, extra-angular at vein 7 and below the middle. Exterior line absent. Hindwing 
reddish ochreous, with a silky lustre. Thorax and forewings of $ greyer, without any red-browm tint. 24 mm. 
Rhodesia, Mozambique. 
0. mesonephele B.-Bak. (19 h). Described as Arcyophora, remarkable for its distorted forewings by mesonc- 
vdiich it resembles the Indian genus Tortriciforma Hmps. Body brown, only the thorax with a white centre. phele 
Forewing pale brown at the base and behind the middle, the median and marginal areas darker. Interior line 
fine brown, obliquely inward. A large bluish white spot in the median area around the cross-vein. An oblique 
undulate brown line from the lower cell-angle to the inner margin. Exterior line brown, with points far out¬ 
ward at veins 5 and 2. Submarginal line fine, undulate, brown, from vein (i to the inner margin. Hindwing 
dark brown. $ 24 mm. Congo District. 
18. Genus ; Ooiiioxestis Hynps. 
Proboscis normal, palpi reaching the Irons. Antennae ciliated. Forewing with a broad dent of scales 
at the middle of the inner margin and a small one at the anal angle, besides an angle at vein 4 at the distal 
margin. Neuration of forewing normal, with an areole. Vein 8 of hindwing fused with the cell as far as the 
centre of the cell. Only 1 species the shape, size and colour of which is somewhat like that of the palaearctic 
Lophojoteryx camelina. 
G. zanderi Fldr. (19 h). Thorax grey, abdomen white. Forewing brownish grey, densely striated brown, zanderl. 
Interior line pale violettish pink, edged with brown outside, very obliquely inward from the middle of the 
costal margin. Exterior line edged with brown inside, slightly extra-angular from the costal margin to vein 7, 
then still more obliquely inward than the interior line. A faded black oblique streak from the apex. Hind¬ 
wing white, diaphanous, somewhat brownish at the margin. $ 46 mm. Abyssinia, West, South-West, and 
East Africa. 
19. Genus: Efeaxestis Hmps. 
Somewhat similar to Plusiocalpe (18 i). Proboscis normal, palpi erect. Antennae of ^ with long cilia. 
Abdomen only with a single tuft at the base. Neuration different from that of the last genera. Vein 3 of 
forewing before the lower angle, 6 and 7 from the upper cell-angle, 8 and 9 absent in the d', the $ with 7 + 8 
on a short stalk. Veins 3 + 4 of hindwing on a short stalk, 5 from the cell-angle, 8 united with the cell almost 
as far as the middle. Type; acutangnla Hmps. All the species from Africa. 
N. griseata Hmpis. (19 i). Body and forewing pale red-brown, costal margin white almost to the apex, griseata. 
Interior line brown, white outside, bent inward, especially at the inner margin. A brown luna at the cross¬ 
vein. Exterior line brown, edged white outside, extra-angular below the apex as far as the distal margin, then 
straight to the inner margin behind the middle, close behind it the eqiially coloured submarginal line. Hind¬ 
wing white, diaphanous, yellowish at the margin. ^ 30 mm. Mashonaland. 
In the following species the interior line is more or less angled, not bent. 
N. acutangula Hmps. Body brownish ochreous, forewing ])ale reddish brown, finely white at the costal acutangnla. 
margin, except at the base. A fine long yellow streak in the submedian fold. Interior line whitish, sharply 
extra-angular at the median vein, then straightly inward. A black dot at the lower cell-angle. Exterior line 
whitish, very sharply excurved almost to the a]:)ex, then parallel with the interior line. Hindwing white, dia¬ 
phanous, l)rownish at the margin. 24—28 mm. Transvaal, Cape Colony. 
N. rhoda Hmps. (19 i). Thorax and forewing light pinkish brown, abdomen pale brown. Forewing rhodu. 
darker tow^ards the distal margin. Interior line dark, almost from the middle of the costal margin, where it 
is shortly extra-angular, then obliquely inward, straight. A dark dot at the cross-vein is mostly present. Ex¬ 
terior line obliquely oiitw-ard as far as vein 6, where it is obtusely angled and parallel with the interior line 
iiward. Submarginal dark dots traceable. Hindwing wdiite, diaphanous, yellow at the margin. 24 mm. Rho¬ 
desia, Transvaal. 
N. mesogonia Hmps. (19 i). Body and forewing pale ochreous, costal and inner margins brown as far mesogonia. 
as the exterior line, the marginal area more reddish. Interior line brown, obtusely angled in the cell, then 
somewhat undulate, inw^ard. Exterior line brown, angled at vein 6, then straightly inwmrd, parallel with the 
interior line. Traces of a parallel submarginal line behind it, with a spot above the inner margin. HindAving 
yellowish white, diaphanous. Fore wing of $ with a dark brown median area, the marginal area brown. Hind- 
w'ing more browmish. 22—24 mm. Gambia, Abyssinia. 
