The Moths of South Africa. 397 



Sect. I. Abdomen without dorsal crests. 



A. Forewing with the basal and medial areas tinged with greenish. 



. Forewing with subterminal series of small dark lunules . . . . fusca . 

 It. Forewing without subterminal series of small dark lunules .. herbida. 



B. Forewing with the basal and medial areas not tinged with greenish. 

 a. Forewing with the postmedial line not angled inwards in discal 



fold 



h. Forewing with the postmedial line angled inwards in discal fold. 

 '. Hindwing white, the apical area tinged with fuscous. . .. 

 h l . Hindwing fuscous brown 2 )<>ist .f lt><( '"- 



(1) DASYCHIBA FUSCA, Wlk. vi. 918 (1855) $ . 



Orgy ia teplira, Herr.-Schaff. Aussereur. Schmett. f. 387 (1855). 

 Boreconia subviridis, Wlk. xxxii. 460 (1865) $ . 

 Hab. Cape Colony (Sir A. Smith), Knysna (Trimen). Exp. 

 40-52 mill. 



(2) :;: DASYcmRA HERBIDA, Wlk. vii. 1740 (1856). 

 Hab. Cape Colony. Exp. 60 mill. 



(3) DASYCHIRA MUNICIPALS, Dist. A.M.N.H. (6) xx. p. 200 (1897) $ . 

 Lacipa cliff lisa, Dist. A.M.N.H. (6) xx. p. 200 (1897) ? . 



Hab. British Central Africa, Chiromo ; Transvaal; Natal; 

 Cape Colony, Transkei, Annshaw (Miss F. Barrett). Exp. 

 36-40 mill. 



(4) DASYCHIRA POSTPURA, n. sp. 



$ . Head and thorax white mixed with dark brown ; palpi black 

 at sides ; tegulae with black medial line ; tarsi banded with black, 

 abdomen white irrorated with brown. Forewing white slightly 

 tinged with brown and thickly irrorated with black ; costa black at 

 base ; a subbasal black line angled outwards in cell and ending at 

 submedian fold ; antimedial line angled outwards below costa, then 

 dentate ; orbicular and reniform slightly defined by black, the former 

 irregularly rounded, the latter with fuscous centre; a slight incurved 

 medial shade ; postmedial line inwardly oblique at costa, bent out- 

 wards below costa, then dentate, angled inwards in discal fold, 

 retracted to near origin of vein 2, then inwardly oblique ; two black 

 striae from costa before apex ; a highly crenulate terminal line ; cilia 

 grey and black. Hindwing white ; a slight discoidal lunule ; the 

 terminal area slightly irrorated with brown, more prominently on 

 apical area. 



Hab. Cape Colony, Stellenbosch. Exp. 32 mill. Type in B.M. 



(5) DASYCHIRA POSTFUSCA, n. sp. 



$ . Head and thorax grey-white mixed with brown ; palpi 



