402 Annals of the South African Museum. 



bent outwards again ; a fine subterminal line incurved at veins 

 5, 3, 2. Hindwing white, the termen tinged with fuscous. 



$ . Forewing more strongly irrorated with black ; antemedial 

 line less distinct ; reniform outlined by black and produced upwards, 

 with a wedge-shaped mark defined by black from its inner side to 

 antemedial line ; postmedial line not so strongly angled inwards 

 below cell, nor bent outwards again ; subterminal line less distinct 

 with an irregular waved black line before it strongly incurved and 

 with a black lunule on it below vein 2 Hindwing more tinged with 

 fuscous ; the under side with the costal and terminal areas irrorated 

 with fuscous, a discoidal lunule and diffused sinuous subterminal line. 



Hctb. Mashonaland, Salisbury (Marshall). Exp. $ 40, ? 46 mill. 

 Type in B.M. 



Pupa in a thin cocoon of grey and black hair. 



(16)*DASYCHiBA EXTATURA, Dist. A.M.N.H. (6) xx. p. 202 (1897). 

 Hab. Transvaal, Pretoria (Distant). Exp. $ 40, ? 50 mill. 



(17) DASYCHIKA GWELILA, Swinh. Trans. Ent. Soc., 1903, p. 469. 

 Hab. British East Africa, Gwelil, Machakos ; Rhodesia, Bula- 



wayo (R Eyles) ; Natal, Durban (Leigh). Exp. 36 mill. 



(18) DASYCHIRA MASCARENA, Bull. A.M.N.H. (5) ii. p. 294 (1878). 



cangia, Druce, P.Z.S. 1887, p. 674. Holland, 

 Psyche, vi. p. 567, pi. 10, f. 12. 

 Hab. Delagoa Bay ; Madagascar. Exp. $ 50, $ 56 mill. 



(19) DASYCHIRA GEORGIANA, Fawcett, Tr. Zool. Soc. xv. p. 314, 



pi. xlix. ff. 19, 20, 21 (1900). 



Hub. Transvaal (Marshall) ; Natal, Durban (Leigh). Exp. 

 3 42, ? 72 mill. 



(20) DASYCHIRA OCTOPHORA, n. sp. 



$ . Head and thorax white ; palpi black except at tips ; lower 

 part of irons black ; a black bar between antennae which have black 

 points on shaft in front and blackish branches ; tegulae edged with 

 black behind ; thorax with black markings ; legs banded with black; 

 abdomen ochreous white with fuscous dorsal and lateral bands. 

 Forewing white ; the base of costa black ; a subbasal black line from 

 costa to submedian fold, angled outwards in cell ; two irregularly 

 dentate antemedial lines, the second arising from an annulus on 

 costa and angled inwards nearly to former in cell ; orbicular repre- 

 sented by a small annulus, the reniform by an 8-shaped mark ; 

 a striga from middle of costa and a Y-shaped mark on inner margin; 



