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extending to costa; subterminal line sinuate, cloudy, indistinct, 
white, preceded and sometimes partially obliterated by blackish-grey 
suffusion ; a terminal series of small cloudy grey spots : cilia whitish, 
an interrupted grey subbasal shade. Hindwings whitish ; an irreg¬ 
ular terminal fascia of dark grey suffusion not reaching tornus ; cilia 
whitish, basal third greyish. 
Belgian Congo, Kivu, Ngoma, October (L . Burgeon ); 2 ex. 
(type Belg. Cong. Mus.). Probably allied to piperitalis Hainps. 
Mecyna endochlora, n. sp. 
2 . 27 mm. Head, palpi, thorax dull brownish-crimson, palpi 3J. 
Forewings dull brownish-crimson; first and second lines repre¬ 
sented by faint cloudy shades on dorsal half at $ and J- respectively, 
a slightly curved cloudy darker subterminal shade at ; small 
orbicular and transverse discal mark cloudy, grey: cilia dull 
brownish-crimson, outer half pale. Hindwings whitish-grey- 
ochreous; a faint cloudy greyish subterminal line at about | on 
upper half; cilia ochreous-grey-whitish. 
Belgian Congo, Elisabethville, April ( C . Seydel ); 1 ex. (Belg. 
Cong. Mus.). ^ 
Homophysa atmocharis, n. sp. 
cT. 17 mm. Head white. Palpi white, each joint with ochreous- 
yellow band. Thorax white, spotted ochreous-yellow. Forewings 
yellow-ochreous, towards base yellow; seven irregularly waved 
white transverse lines, fourth forming a rather large triangular spot 
on middle of costa, fourth to sixth obliterated except on costal area 
by a large patch of purplish-brown suffusion strongly freckled white, 
seventh reduced to a series of small cloudy spots : cilia whitish, base 
tinged yellow. Hindwings white; second and subterminal lines 
forming faint greyish waved shades from costa to below middle, 
where each is terminated by a small more distinct grey spot; a light 
grey terminal line; cilia white, a faint greyish subbasal shade. 
Argentina, Alta Gracia, February ( C . Bruch)) 1 ex. Allied to 
decisci Walk, and polycyma Hamps. 
Scoparia idiogama, n. sp. 
J . 18-20 mm. Head, palpi, thorax dark grey or blackish, lower 
part of face sometimes tinged whitish, apex of tegulae seldom whitish. 
Antennae serrulate, ciliations £. Forewings elongate-triangular, 
termen straight or faintly sinuate, rather oblique; dark fuscous 
or blackish ; lines cloudy, white or whitish, variable in development, 
first about rather obliquely curved, sometimes little marked, 
second about f, parallel to termen, sinuate in disc, usually more 
distinct, sometimes thick, dorsal area between these sometimes 
suffusedly mixed white; spots obscurely blackish, indefinite, seldom 
a suffused white spot between orbicular and discal; subterminal 
vol. tv.— April 1935. 2n 
