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suffusion from costa towards apex : cilia dark grey, a few whitish 
specks. Hindwings 3 and 4 stalked ; dark fuscous ; cilia grey. 
India, U.P., Deoban, Chakrata Div., 9000 feet, bred from larvae 
in buds of Picea morindci (Forest Zoologist ); 4 ex. Group of niseila. 
Encosma paradelta, n. sp. 
. 16 mm. Head white. Palpi dark fuscous, terminal joint and 
apex of second white. Thorax white, shoulders and a broad dorsal 
stripe blackish. Fore wings costa without fold, termen faintly 
sinuate, somewhat oblique ; white, markings blackish ; costal edge 
black from base to beyond middle ; an oblique trapezoidal spot on 
base of costa, including a white costal dot; a semioval spot on coSta 
beyond this; a transverse mark from middle of costa, and three 
small murks between this and apex; an oblique triangular blotch 
from dorsum before middle, reaching more than half across wing; 
a triangular praetorual spot; scattered black scales towards upper 
part of termen: cilia grey mixed dark fuscous (imperfect), on 
tornal area white, on praetornal spot dark fuscous. Hindwings 3 
and 4 stalked ; grey; cilia grey. Forewings beneath with patch of 
modified greyish-ochreous scales occupying anterior half of cell and 
extending a little above it. 
Natal, Rietvlei, February ( Otto ); 1 ex. (Coll. Janse). 
Encosma florescens, n. sp. 
5 . 15 mm. Head whitish, scales brownish towards base. 
Palpi very broadly rough-scaled, brownish, whitish above and at 
tip. Thorax fuscous irrorated whitish. Forewings termen slightly 
sinuate, little oblique; brownish-ochreous suffusedly mottled grey 
and darker-strigulated except along apical third of costa and 
termen, some irregular white irroration between strigulse; costa 
with short direct paired whitish strigulse ; ocellus laterally edged 
with pale silvery-grey whitish-edged streaks and crossed by three 
short blackish marks; some leaden dots towards apex: cilia 
whitish-ochreous tinged grey, greyer round apex, basal third dark 
grey speckled white, tips white on termen. Hindwings 3 and 4 
stalked; dark grey ; cilia grey, a darker subbasal line. 
S. Rhodesia, Bulawayo, December; 1 ex. (Coll. Janse ). Perhaps 
nearest siccescens. 
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Encosma plioenocrossa, n. sp. 
d 2 • 14-15 mm. Head, palpi, thorax brownish-ochreous or 
brownish. Forewings costa without fold, termen hardly rounded, 
rather oblique; ochreous-brown, faintly rosy-tinged; basal patch 
indicated by some violet-fuscous suffusion towards costa about 1, 
a blotch about fold, and a small spot on dorsum at ^; a triangular 
patch of dark brown suffusion extending over costa from beforo 
middle to ^ and reaching more than half across wing, partially 
violet-tinged, on costa becoming dark fuscous and marked with 
more or less expressed dark fuscous lines on veins, a leaden 
