236 Annals of the South African Museum. 



LASIOCAMPIDAE. 



GEN. CHONDEOSTEGA, Led. 



CHONDROSTEGA RTJFICORNIS, n. sp. 



cf. Body and wings fuscous, thorax darker blackish, densely 

 clothed with long hairs ; wings sometimes with an obsolete paler 

 discal fascia, more distinct on the underside of hind wing ; frontal 

 protuberance short, entirely hidden by the long hairs ; antennae 

 broadly pectinated to tip, rufous yellow ; fore tibiae very short with 

 two long apical claws, the inner claw longer and curved ; vein 8 of 

 fore wing absent, 7 curved and emitted from the same point as 6 and 

 the common stalk of 9 and 10 ; veins 9 and 10 to the termeu ; hind 

 wing with vein 8 from near the base, two accessory veiulets at base. 

 Length of fore wing 12 mm., expans. 27 mm. 



Cape : Calvinia District, Loeries Fountain. S. African Museum 

 and State Museum in Stockholm. 



GEN. TEICHIUEANA, uov. gen. 



Nearly allied to the palaearctic genus Trichiura, but differing in 

 having naked eyes; veins 7 aucl 8 of fore wing briefly stalked from end 

 of cell and the veins 9 and 10 much longer than their stalk ; Venation 

 of hind wing completely agreeing with my figure in Iris, vol. vii, pi. 3, 

 fig. 3. Frons with a pointed corneous prominence. Antennae in both 

 sexes bipectinate to tip, with the branches shorter in the female. 



TRICHIURANA MERIDIONALIS, n. sp. 



<$ . Head, thorax and legs cinereous ; abdomen brownish ; eyes 

 surrounded by blackish hairs ; fore wing above whitish with blackish 

 veins ; termen, costa and hind margin fuscous, a black discal point 

 and irregular blackish stripes along veins 2 and 5 ; hind wing on both 

 sides and fore wing below fuscous ; cilia very broad fuscous. Length 

 of fore wing 14 mm. 



In the $ the upper part of the wings is more uniformly greyish 

 with fuscous ciliae ; fore wing with a black discal point and an obsolete 

 fuscous median fascia. Length of fore wing 18 mm. 



Orange Free State, Smithfield. S. African Museum. 



GEN. BEEALADE, Walk. 

 BERALADE (CHILENA) PARVA, u. sp. 

 <$ . Head and thorax above dark fuscous ; pectus, legs and abdomen 



