39-1 Annals of the South African Museum. 



GENUS L^ELIA. 



Type. 



Ld'lia, Steph. Syst. Cat. Brit. Ins. ii. p. 52 



(1829) cfenosa. 



Cropera, Wlk. iv. 825 (1855) testacea. 



Anthora, Wlk. iv. 801 (1855) subrosea. 



A. Forewing without postmedial series of spots. 



. Forewing with the veins dark jriilebitix. 



b. Forewing with the veins not dark textacea. 



B. Forewing with more or less prominent series of spots or points. 



a. Forewing with the series of spots incurved below vein 4. 



'. Forewing with the postmedial spots red fulriiivtuta. 



b 1 . Forewing with the postmedial spots dark. 



a-. Colour ochreous yellow adsperxu. 



b 2 . Colour pale lemon-yellow setinoides. 



b. Forewing with the series of spots obliquely excurved below vein 4. 



a 1 . Colour orange-yellow piuictulntd. 



b'. Colour pale yellow largely suffused with crimson . . . . Ini'iuatica. 

 c 1 . Colour whitish. 



a-. Forewing tinged with pale purplish pink tsitbroxea. 



I)-. Forewing tinged with pale brown ilium-la. 



<l'. Colour pale reddish brown. 



a-. Forewing without black fascias ri/h'ttti*. 



b-. Forewing with black fascise on median nervnre and 



above inner margin bifasc-iu. 



c 1 . Colour more fiery red Jif/lina. 



(1) L^LIA PHLEBITIS, n. Sp. 



$ . Head, thorax, and abdomen fulvous yellow ; tibiae and tarsi 

 streaked with black. Forewing fulvous yellow ; the costal edge 

 fuscous at base ; the veins fuscous except on costal area and towards 

 base. Hindwing fulvous yellow. 



? rather paler and the wings semihyaline. 



Hab. Mashonaland, Salisbury, Umtali (Marshall). Exp. 3 30, 

 ? 46 mill. Type in B.M. 



(2) LJELIA TESTACEA, Wlk. iv. 826 (1855). 



Hab. British East Africa, Machakos, Usambara, M'gana; 

 Natal, Durban (Gueinzius, Gooch, Burrows) ; Cape Colony, 

 Transkei (Miss F. Barrett). Exp. 3 34, ? 46 mill. 



(3) L.ELIA FULVINOTATA, Butl. P.Z.S., 1893, p. 678. 



Hab. British Central Africa, Zomba ; Mashonaland, Salisbury, 

 Umtali (Marshall) ; Gazaland, Mt. Chirinda (Marshall). Exp. 

 3 42, 5 54 mill. 



