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spot beyond and small irregular dorsal spot touched with 
ochreous obliquely before it; an irregular white apical dot tinged 
ochreous: cilia pale grey, round apex darker with two blackish 
shades. Hindwings grey; cilia light grey, base suffused pale 
ochreous. 
Rhodesia, Bulawayo, December ( Janse ); Orange Dree State, 
Bloemfontein {Irving) ; 3 ex. Type Coll. Janse. Allied to quin- 
quecvistata , but in that species the first fascia is interrupted, the 
second is oblique and parallel to it, rising from before middle of 
costa, and the apical white marking is linear. 
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Stagmatopliora aglaopa, n. sp. 
5 . 9 mm. Head ash-grey. Palpi white, second joint with 
black subapical ring, terminal joint lined black. Antennae black 
dotted white, 2 apical joints white, then 2 black, 2 white, 3 black, 
1 white, scape lined white. Thorax deep bronze. Fore wings deep 
bronze; markings bright silver-metallic; a fine line at base; 
rather oblique slightly curved transverse lines at -1 and J-; a trans¬ 
verse mark from tornus reaching nearly half across wing, and one 
from costa rather beyond it; some scattered elongate silver scales 
in apical area, and especially in base of terminal cilia: cilia other¬ 
wise dark grey. Hindwings and cilia dark grey. 
Uganda, Kampala, August ( Hargreaves ); 1 ex. (Brit. Mus.). 
Pyroderces oxyptila, n. sp. 
$ . 16 mm. Palpi white, base of second joint fuscous, terminal 
joint with three faint ochreous rings. Thorax pinkish-brown. Abdo¬ 
men pale ochreous. Forewings greyish-pink; costal edge blackish 
towards base; a blackish dot beneath costa at and 2 or 3 dark 
fuscous dots in a nearly direct series beneath this, some white 
suffusion towards dorsum beyond them ; a large blackish tuft above 
dorsum before middle of wing, emitting a short oblique black 
pointed streak edged whitish suffusion, from above this a streak of 
white suffusion along costa to near apex; an irregular whitish line 
along dorso-termen from middle of wing to apex, edged above with 
some blackish scales at origin, and beneath with a line of black 
scales towards apex: cilia whitish-grey, at apex falcate-projecting 
and greyish-pink, beneath this two diverging dark grey hooks. 
Hindwings grey ; cilia whitish-grey. 
New Ireland, January (Eichhorn) ; 1 ex. 
Pyroderces syngalactis, n. sp. 
<5 . 9-10 mm. Head pearly whitish. Palpi whitish; a grey 
lateral shade on lower \ of second joint. Thorax whitish, tegulae 
grey. Fore wings grey; an irregular white streak from base of 
costa, with attached spot beneath costa, along fold to beyond middle 
of wing, where it meets an oblique somewhat incurved white streak 
from beyond middle of costa to tornus, small blackish spots above 
and below point of junction, two others in disc above plical streak, 
