The Moths of South Africa. 431 



(6a) :;: AuDEA SUBLIGATA, Dist. Entom. 1902, p. 212. 

 Hab. Transvaal. Exp. 40 mill. 



(la)*CHALdOPE PRETOKI^E, Dist. Entom. 1902, p. 212. 

 Hab. Transvaal, Pretoria. Exp. 60 mill. 



(276) OPHIUSA MELACONISIA, n. sp. 



$ . Head and thorax clothed with grey and brown scales with 

 some large black scales mixed ; abdomen grey irrorated with brown. 

 Forevving grey very thickly and finely striated with brown and irro- 

 rated with some large black-tipped white scales ; the veins white ; 

 subbasal line white, oblique, from costa to submedian fold ; ante- 

 medial line white defined by brown on inner side, oblique and slightly 

 excurved below costa ; orbicular and reniform elliptical, black defined 

 by white; postmedial line white defined by brown on outer side, 

 excurved from just below costa to vein 4, then incurved, slightly 

 excurved again above inner margin ; subterminal line whitish defined 

 on each side by red-brown, some black marks on its inner side below 

 costa, slightly excurved below vein 7, then nearly straight ; a fine 

 crenulate red-brown line just before termen ; a fine whitish line at 

 base of cilia. Hindwing ochreous suffused with brown, the terminal 

 area suffused with fuscous ; a dark terminal line, the cilia pale. 

 Under side of both wings whitish, the terminal areas suffused with 

 fuscous ; forewing with the dark orbicular and reniform showing. 



Hab. Mashonaland, Salisbury (Dobbie). Exp. 46 mill. Type in 

 B.M. 



GENUS EGYBOLIS. 



Type. 



Caloptera, Blanch. Hist. Ins. ii. p. 363 



(1845), nee Guer. Dipt. 1830 vaillantina. 



Egybolis,~Bois d. Delegorgue Voy. Afr. Austr. 



ii. p. 595 (1847) caiUantliut. 



EGYBOLIS VAILLANTINA, Stoll, Suppl. Cram. pi. 31, f. 3 (1790); 



Saund. Trans. Ent. Soc. (2) iv. p. 59, pi. 14, f. 3 a-c ; Ang. Kaff. 



Illustr. pi. 30, f. 19 ; larva, Fawcett, Tr. Zool. Soc. xvii. p. 282, 



pi. viii. ff. 13, 14. 



Caloptera formosa, Blanch. Hist. Ins. ii. p. 376, pi. 17, f. 6 (1845). 

 Egybolis natalii, Boisd. Delegorgue, Voy. Afr. Austr. ii. p. 595 



(1847). 



Hab. Uganda; Zanzibar; British Central Africa, Blantyre, 

 Nyasa ; Delagoa Bay (Kenrick) ; Zululand (Angas) ; Natal, Durban 

 {Gooch, Leigh). Exp. 52-66 mill. 



