The Moths of South Africa. 411 



CYMAEOA LEPTOPEPLA, n. sp. 



$ . Head and thorax fulvous yellow mixed with fuscous ; tibiae 

 and tarsi banded with black ; abdomen fulvous yellow slight irro- 

 rated with fuscous. Porewing fulvous yellow irrorated with black ; 

 subbasal line indistinct, diffused, waved, with more distinct black 

 mark at costa ; antemedial line irregularly dentate, bent outwards 

 from subcostal nervure to submedian fold ; medial line with black 

 mark on costa, then very indistinct, waved, oblique to lower angle 

 of cell where it is angled; postmedial line waved, oblique to below 

 vein 6, then inwardly oblique, a similar slightly curved line beyond 

 it ; a very ill-defined waved subterrninal line. Hindwing golden- 

 yellow with small fuscous discoidal spot and ill-defined subterminal 

 line. 



5 . Browner, especially the hindwing. 



Hob. Basutoland, Maseru (Crawshay) ; Cape Colony, Grahams- 

 town (Miss P. Barrett), Capetown. Exp. 38-46 mill. 



GENUS NAEOMA. 



Type. 



Naroma, Wlk. vii. 1744 (1856) signifera. 



Hijsibada, Wlk. xxxii. 497 (1865) signifera. 



Zarfa, Wlk. Proc. Nat. Hist. Soc. Glasg. i. 



p. 338 (1869) ' signifera. 



Warclenia, Snell. Tijd. v. Ent. (2) vii. p. 40 



(1872) signifera. 



NAEOMA SIGNIFEEA, Wlk. vii. 1744 (1856). 



Hysibada varipes, Wlk. xxxii. 498 (1865). 



Zarfa lunifera, Wlk. Proc. Nat. Hist. Soc. Glasg. i. p. 339 (1869). 



WcBrdenia weyenberghi, Snell. Tijd. v. Ent. (2) vii. p. 43, pi. 3, ff. 9- 



12 (1872). 



Cnethocampa cadica, Plotz, Stett. Ent. Zeit. xli. p. 85 (1880). 

 Dasychira mabilli, Eochebr. Bull. Soc. Philom. (7) viii. p. 30 (1884). 

 Hab. West Africa, Sierra Leone, Nigeria, Accra, Old Calabar, 

 Congo; Uganda, Karasa; Mashonaland Salisbury (Marshall), 

 Umtali (Marshall) ; Natal, Malvern (Marshall), Durban (Gueinzius, 

 Leigh, Miss Heaton). Exp. 30-54 mill. 



GENUS PTEEEDOA, nov. 

 Type P. plumosa. 



Palpi porrect to just beyond frons, moderately clothed with hair ; 

 antennae of male with extremely long feathery branches, decreasing 



