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others on veins 5-8 : cilia light grey mixed whitish. Hindwings 
light grejr; cilia pale grey, more whitish towards tips. 
Natal, Impetyeni Forest, September ( Sivinny ); 1 ex. (Coll. 
Janse). Near sisyrcea. 
Melasina talaria, n. sp. 
5. 25 mm. Head grey. Palpi 1|, loosely scaled, grey. 
Thorax dark grey. Abdomen slender, dark fuscous, anal tuft 
large, ovipositor long, exserted. Forewings moderate, termen 
rather oblique ; 9 absent; dark fuscous, strewn small ochreous- 
whitish spots, tending to form irregular transverse series, several 
spots on costa somewhat larger, a well-defined series near termen 
becoming marginal round tornus: cilia dark purple-grey, a dark 
fuscous subbasal line. Hindwings dark fuscous ; cilia dark grey, a 
dark fuscous basal line. 
Natal, Durban, September {Platt) ; 1 ex. (Coll, Janse). 
Melasina tanyphaea, n. sp. 
<$ . 31 mm. Head light fuscous. Palpi 1|, rough-scaled, fuscous. 
Antennal pectinations 6. Thorax fuscous. Porewings elongate, 
somewhat dilated, termen rather oblique; fuscous ; several small 
cloudy dark fuscous spots on costa posteriorly: cilia fuscous. Hind- 
wings grey ; cilia light grey. 
Natal, liietvlei, November (Otto); 1 ex. (Coll. Janse). 
Melasina aulodoma, n. sp. 
$. 23 mm. ‘ Head light ochreous-yellowish. Palpi short, grej^. 
Thorax light grey. Porewings elongate, moderate, termen oblique; 
light grey, obscurely strigulated darker grey: cilia light grey. 
Hindwings and cilia light grey. 
Nyasaland, Port Johnston (Dr, W. A, Lcimboiirn), bred from 
larval case (17 mm. X 4 mm.) formed of silk enclosed between two 
semicylindrical segments of vegetable material, one apparently part 
of the wall of a large grass-stem, the other a strip of the outer 
layer of a fine bark; 1 ex. (Brit. Mus.). Probably nearest 
linicomci . 
Melasina trichodyta, n. sp. 
<J. 22-23 mm. Head whitish-fuscous. Palpi light fuscous. 
Antennal pectinations 6. Thorax rather dark fuscous sprinkled 
whitish hair-scales. Porewings elongate, termen oblique; light 
fuscous strewn long whitish hair-scales, with coarse suffused dark 
fuscous transverse strigulae tending to unite in transverse series, 
sometimes with subterminal series of 3 or 4 rounded spots ; cilia 
ochreous-grey-whitish, two fuscous lines, Hindwings ochreous- 
