426 Annals of tlie South African Museum. 



CUCULLIAN^:. 



(la) HELIOPHOBUS LEUCOGONIA, n. sp. 



<? . Head and thorax dark reddish brown mixed with greyish ; 

 antennae ochreous white ; abdomen reddish brown. Forewing red- 

 brown with some greyish irroration, the veins darker ; the basal half 

 from cell to inner margin yellowish irrorated with rufous ; a comma- 

 shaped white mark in cell near base ; a dark medial line angled in 

 submedian fold, then oblique ; an elliptical white spot on end of 

 median nervure conjoined or nearly conjoined to a white discoidal 

 bar, constricted at middle ; an obliquely curved postmedial line bent 

 inwards to costa and placed unusually near termen ; a dark 

 terminal line. Hindwing white, the costal area tinged with 

 rufous ; a brown discoidal spot, curved postmedial line and line 

 terminal line. 



Hab. Mashonaland (Bobbie). Exp. 32 mill. Type in B.M. 



ACRONYCTIN^;. 



GENUS PEOCEATEEIA, nov. 



Type P. noloidcs. 



Proboscis fully developed ; palpi porrect extending to \vell beyond 

 frons, which has a large truncate conical prominence with raised rirn 

 and a corneous plate below it ; antennas of female ciliated, head and 

 thorax clothed with scales, the pro- and meta-thorax with spreading 

 crests ; abdomen with dorsal crest on basal segment. Forewing 

 with veins 3 and 5 from near angle of cell ; 6 from upper angle ; 

 9 from 10 anastomosing with 8 to form the areole ; 11 from cell. 

 Hindwing with veins 3, 4 from angle of cell ; 5 obsolescent from 

 below middle of discocellulars; 6, 7 from upper angle; 8 anastomosing 

 with the cell near base only. 



PROCRATERIA NOLOIDES, n. sp. 



$ . Head, tegulre, and prothoracic crest black pencilled with dark 

 grey ; thorax grey ; legs suffused with fuscous ; abdomen grey 

 irrorated with fuscous. Forewing grey-white irrorated with fuscous, 

 a large triangular black patch on basal part of costa extending to the 

 indistinct whitish antemedial line which is bent outwards at median 

 nervure, then oblique ; orbicular and reniform small, indistinctly 

 denned by fuscous, the former round ; the veins of terminal half 

 .streaked with black ; traces of a very highly dentate postmedial line 

 produced to a series of black and white points on the veins, very 



