434 Annals of the South African Museum. 



GENUS PLATYJA. 



Type. 

 Platyja, Hiibn. Verz. p. 268 (1827) nmminea. 



After Calesia. 



PLATYJA PH^OPHCENICA, n. sp. 



$ . Fuscous brown slightly irrorated with bluish white and 

 suffused with purple; palpi white at tips; tarsi with white rings. 

 Forewing with slight interrupted waved white subbasal line from 

 costa to submedian fold ; a sinuous rufous antemedial line with 

 white points at costa and veins ; a slight discoidal point ; a waved 

 rufous postrnedial line w T ith white points on it at the veins, slightly 

 excurved from costa to below vein 2 and expanding into a band with 

 waved edges beyond the cell, retracted from below vein 2 to lower 

 angle of cell, and enclosing in its sinus a greenish white figure-of-8- 

 shaped spot, then erect to inner margin ; a small subterminal white 

 spot on vein 6 with an oblique striga above it ; a series of white 

 points on costa towards apex and term en. Hindwing with waved 

 postmedial rufous line with series of white points on it, obsolescent 

 towards costa ; a terminal series of white points. 



Hah. Natal, Durban (Leigh). Exp. 52 mill. Type in B.M. 



(2a) ACANTHOLIPES LoxiA, n. sp. 



3 . Ochreous white ; palpi tinged with fuscous at sides ; head, 

 thorax, and abdomen sparsely irrorated with black. Forewing irro- 

 rated with brown and blackish ; two indistinct oblique antemedial 

 lines from cell to inner margin ; black points at middle of cell and 

 on discocellulars ; an oblique black band from just beyond lower 

 angle of cell to middle of inner margin ; an indistinct oblique post- 

 medial line ; subterminal line arising from apex and slightly incurved, 

 whitish denned by an indistinct line on inner side and strongly by 

 black on outer ; a terminal punctiform line. Hindwing whitish 

 with oblique medial dark bar from cell to submedian fold ; a sub- 

 terminal band from vein 7 to tornus ; a terminal punctiform line ; 

 the under side irrorated with brown, a discoidal spot, an oblique 

 postmedial line obsolete towards costa and inner margin, a some- 

 what incurved subterminal band. 



Hub. Natal, Durban (Leigh). Exp. 24 mill. Type in B.M. 



ERASTRIAN^. 



(4a) MEGALODES XANTHIA, n. sp. 



Yellow with a slight olive tinge ; head and thorax slightly tinged 

 with rufous and with a few black scales ; tibite and tarsi banded with 



