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wings and cilia grey, base of wing S suffused white, with short 
curved expansible whitish hairtuft from base of costa. Metathorax 
at base of hindwings <3 with long ochreous-whitish expansible hair- 
pencil directed along abdomen. 
Fiji, Lautoka, bred July from larvse feeding on dead and decaying 
flowers (probably not attached to any special plant) ( Greenwood ); 
2 ex. (Brit. Mus.). 
Limnoecia chlorodeta, n. sp. . 
2 . 10 mm. Head ochreous-whitish, back of crown fuscous, 
collar dark fuscous. Palpi smooth, whitish, second joint with dark 
fuscous lateral line, terminal joint blackish anteriorly. Thorax 
ochreous-whitish. Forewings blackish-fuscous ; an ochreous-whitish 
basal dot; two rather narrow whitish-ochreous transverse fascise, 
first before middle, direct, second at |, rather inwards-oblique from 
costa, slightly incurved, with short downward projection in middle 
of posterior edge : cilia pale grey, on costa mixed dark fuscous and 
barred pale ochreous on second fascia, at apex an ochreous-whitish 
spot. Hindwings and cilia pale grey. 
Transvaal, Wylie’s Poort, January ; 1 ex. (Coll. Janse). 
Limnoecia semisecta, n. sp. 
S . 14 mm. Head, thorax blackish, sides of crown and outer 
edge of tegulse white. Palpi black, anterior edge finely white. 
Forewings blackish; markings silvery-white; three streaks from 
costa, first from 4, oblique, nearly reaching fold, second from 
middle, direct, irregularly dilated, third from 4-, inwards-oblique, 
two latter reaching half across wing; an elongate mark on dorsum 
at |, a dot on fold beneath second costal streak, a minute dot at end 
of fold and one in disc above it, an oblique mark beneath end of 
third costal streak, and a short mark on apical end of termen: cilia 
grey, a faint whitish median shade on termen, tips whitish on upper 
part of termen. Hindwings and cilia grey. 
Rhodesia, Bulawayo, December; 1 ex. (Coll. Janse). 
Limnoecia microglypta, n. sp. 
< 3 2 • 7-8 mm. Head white. Palpi white, second and terminal 
joints each with base and subapical ring dark fuscous. Thorax 
dark fuscous mixed white, c? from beneath hindwings a long 
expansible ochreous-whitish hairpencil. Forewings brownish, 2 
sometimes wholly suffused blackish ; basal area suffused blackish, 
mixed white towards base; irregular angulated white fascise edged 
black suffusion at 3 and beyond middle, more or less interrupted on 
angle, space between these suffused blackish except on dorsal area, 
a more oblique black line from costa following second extended to a 
black spot in disc at |; an oblique white strigula from costa at |, 
and a white dot on tornus opposite ; a small white inwards-oblique 
mark from costa just before apex preceding a dark apical spot: cilia 
whitish, on tornal area pale grey, round apex a black subbasal line, 
