388 Annals of the South African Museum. 



cariuate ; areolet entire and not pentagonal ; segmental apical segments 

 obtuse and their disc not triangularly impressed ; nervellus intercepted 

 below centre. 



PHILOPSYCHE ABDOMINALIS, sp. uov. 



c^ ? . An elongate black species with long white pubescence, and 

 the abdomen red ; palpi, radices and a dot before the concolorous 

 tegulae, and the anterior legs except in ? inner side and in <$ the 

 whole of the intermediate tibiae, white. The $ has the second to 

 fourth incisures and disc of the seventh segment black, and the ? 

 black dots at the apical angles of the second to fourth segments. 

 Length J 7, ? 14, terebra 5, mm. In structui-e and outline it agrees 

 in every way with P. albobalteata, Cam. ; cf. Mori. Fauna India, Ichn. 

 1913, p. 194. 



The latter species has been bred from three or four species of Psyche 

 in Ceylon : and the present pair, which is from Kentani in Cape Colony, 

 was " bred from a Psychic! moth, Chaliodes junodi" by Miss Pegler 

 during 1909. 



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SJOSTE DTI ELLA, Szep. 



SJOSTEDTIELLA NIGRIPECTUS, Brulle. 

 Nat. Hist. Ins. Hym. iv, 1846, p. 108. 



Males were taken at Giftsberg, Khynsdorp, Cape Colony, in Sep- 

 tember, 1911, and by Pc'ringuey at Cape Town early in 1915 ; a couple 

 of females are labelled as the last, and were probably found along 

 with it. 



TRIBE LISSONOTIDES. 



LISSONOTA, G-ravb. 

 Ichn. Eur. vol. 3, 1829, p. 30. 



LISSONOTA HALIDAYI, Holmgr. 

 Sv. Ak. Handl. 1860, no. 10, p. 59, ? . 



A single male from the south-west district of Cape Colony differs 

 from the male of Holmgren's species, which was first described in my 

 Ichn. Britannica, iii, 1908, p. 211, to so slight an extent that I have 

 no hesitation in regarding it as no more than a local form of that 

 species. With the description referred to it agrees in every detail, 

 excepting only that the white markings are here replaced with red 

 and the alar areolet is externally wanting; more material would 

 probably show the latter to be a variable character. 



