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white ; an obliquely curved, rather broad white band from just 

 beyond upper angle of cell to vein 1 near tornus ; cilia tipped with 

 white. Hindwing black ; an ill-defined oblique white band from 

 costa beyond middle to submedian fold above tornus ; cilia tipped 

 with white ; the under side with the band rather more denned and 

 joining a diffused white fascia on inner area. 



Hab. Gazaland, Melsetter, 5,500 ft. (Marshall). Exp. 26 mill. 



Sect. II. Forewing with vein 6 from well below angle of cell. 



(2) AROA DISCALIS, Wlk. iv. 792 (1855) ; Waterh. Aid. ii. pi. 178, f. 5. 

 ,, ochraceata, Wlk. xxxii. 327 (1865). 

 ,, signata, Wlk. xxxii. 328 (1865). 



Ornithopsyche hypoxantlia, Wllgrn. K. Vet.-Akad. Handl. (2) v. 

 (4) p. 35 (1865) ; Feld. Beis. Nov. pi. 100, f. 4. 



Hab. British East Africa, Kikuyu, Munisu, Kilaman'jaro ; 

 Uganda, Port Ogowe, Marengi, Masevi ; British Central 

 Africa, Zomba ; Portuguese East Africa, Quilimane, Mashona- 

 land, Salisbury (Marshall) ; Delagoa Bay (Junod) ; Zululand, 

 Lo\ver Tugela (Eeynolds) ; Natal, Malvern (Marshall), Durban 

 (Gueinzius, Gooch, Trimen, Heale, Leigh) ; Cape Colony, 

 Grahamstown. Exp. $ 34, ? 42-44 mill. 



Larva hairy, nearly black ; Cocoon whitish. Food plants, 

 grasses (G. F. Leigh). 



AUCTOEUM. 



Orgyia tricolor, Herr.-Schaff. Aussereur. 



Schmett. i. f. 472 (1856) Cape Colony. 



Ornithopsyche anthora, Feld. Beis. Nov. 



pi. 100, f. 3 (1874) ? = A. discalis $ ... Cape Colony. 



Orgyia melaxantha, Wlk. xxxii. 324 (1865) = pyrrliochroma, Wlk. xxxii. 329, is 

 from India, not South Africa. 



GENUS HOMOCHIBA, nov. 

 Type H. rendalli. 



Palpi porrect to well beyond frons, the second joint thickly scaled, 

 the third short ; antennae of male with long branches ending in a 

 bristle, of female with shorter branches ; legs hairy, the fore tibiae 

 and tarsal joints fringed with long hair ; hind tibiae with two pairs of 

 spurs ; abdomen with dorsal crests on basal segments. Forewing 

 rather short and broad ; veins 3 and 5 from near angle of cell ; 

 6 from below upper angle ; 7, 8, 9, 10 stalked, 10 from beyond 7 ; 



