400 Annals of the South African Museum. 



(9) DASYCHIBA EXTORTA, Dist. A.M.N.H. (6) xx. p. 203. 

 Li/mantria hcra, Druce, A.M.N.H. (7) i. p. 209 (1898). 



Hab. British East Africa, Athi-ya-Mawe ; Mashonaland, Umtali 

 (Marshall) ; Transvaal ; Natal, Durban (Queckett, Leigh) ; 

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

 30-40 mill. 



Larva. Fuscous black, the warts with tufts of loose greyish hair; 

 subdorsal pencils of black hair on first somite just behind head ; 

 large dorsal brushes of red-brown hair on fourth to seventh somite 

 . . . urticating. 



(10) DASYCHIRA LUNENSIS, n. sp. 



3 . Head, thorax, and abdomen dark brown mixed with some 

 grey. Forewing pale olive irrorated with brown, the costal area, 

 cell and area from below end of cell to subterminal line suffused 

 with purplish ; traces of a subbasal line angled outwards below costa 

 and extending to vein 1 ; traces of a double irregularly dentate ante- 

 medial line ; postmedial line minutely dentate, bent outwards below 

 costa, excurved to vein 4, then incurved, an oblique series of dentate 

 white and black marks beyond it between veins 4 and submedian 

 fold, the lowest larger ; a subterminal series of black striae obliquely 

 placed above veins 3 and 2. Hindwing ochreous whitish tinged 

 with fuscous on terminal area. 



$ . Forewing with the medial area tinged with greenish ; reni- 

 form suffused with whitish ; a large brownish semilunate patch from 

 below costa to vein 2 ; a whitish line before the subterminal striae 

 angled inwards in discal fold and strongly in submedian fold, and 

 with a series of dentate black marks on its inner side. 



Hob. Natal, Durban (Gooch, Leigh). Exp. $ 32, ? 36 mill. 



Larva. Yellow ; warts with tufts of long whitish hair ; first somite 

 with lateral pencils of long plumose brown hair projecting forward ; 

 fourth to seventh somite with dorsal brushes of short whitish hair ; 

 a brownish dorsal stripe spotted with yellow, on thoracic somites 

 barred with yellow, defined below by the yellow subdorsal line with 

 crimson marks on it at middle of each segment; lateral line indistinct, 

 yellow ; head yellow marked with crimson ; prolegs crimson-tipped. 



(ll) :;: DASYCHiRA LIBYRA, Druce, A.M.N.H. (6) xvii. p. 352 (1896). 

 Heteronygmia flammeola, Dist. A.M.N.H. (7) vii. p. 360 (1899). 

 Hab. East Africa ; Transvaal, Lydenburg. Exp. $ 42, 

 ? 50 mill. 



(12) DASYCHIRA METATHERMES, n. sp. 



3 . Head and thorax whitish mixed with brown and tinged with 



