42 XOVITATES ZOOLOGICAE XXIV. 1917. 



(30) fAphomia cafiralis n. sp. 



(J. Head and thorax grey tinged with purpH.sh red and with some blackish 

 mixed ; abdomen pale grey with a faint ochreous tinge towards base and some 

 fuscous brown suffusion towards extremity ; pectus, legs and ventral surface 

 of abdomen whitish uTorated with blackish, the tarsi banded with blackish. 

 Forewing grey tinged with purplish red and sparsely irroratcd ^\ith black : a 

 diffused whitish streak in submedian fold from before the antemedial to the 

 postmedial line ; a black point at base of vein 1, and subbasal point in the cell ; 

 antemedial line rather diffused, blackish, oblique to submedian fold, then erect ; 

 rather diffused black spots in cell towards extremity and on discocellulars, with 

 a few white scales between them ; postmedial line rather diffused blackish, 

 defined on outer side by some white scales, rather obliquely incurved to discal 

 fold, then inwardly oblique ; a punctiform blackish terminal line ; cilia with a 

 slight pale line near tips, Hindwing whitish suffused with reddish brown, the 

 cilia whiter with two dark lines through them except towards tornus. Underside 

 of forewing fuscous with the costal edge pale ; hindwing whitish tinged with 

 red-brown, the costal area suffused with fuscous. 



TransvaaJ, Kranspruit (Jause), 1 o type ; Orange R. Colony, Bloemfontein 

 (Eckersley), 1 cJ. Exp. 26-30 mill. 



Aiictormn. 

 Aphonia erumpens Lucas, Pr. R. Soc. Queensl. xiii, p, 79 (1.S98) ..... Queenslaud 



JUelissoblaptes burellus Koll., Noi'. Zool. vii. p. 5Sl {\9>X>) ....... Buru 



Melissoblaptes baryptera Lower, P. Linn. Soc. N.S.W. 1901. p. 659 . . Victoria ; S. Australia 

 Melissoblaptes agramma Lower, Tr. R. Soc. S. Avstr. 1903. p. 49 . Louisiades Is. ; Queensland 



Melissoblaptes cissinobaphes Turner, Tr. R. Soc. Queensl. xix. p. 90 (190.'5) . . . Queensland 



.4pfcomia ymea Turati, £n(. Tfec. XXV. p. 18 (1913) ....... Sardinia 



Gen. Heteromicta. 



T.Tpe. 

 Heteromicta Meyr., Trans Ent. Soc. 1886. p. 273 ....... pachytera 



Hypolophota Turner, Pr. R. Soc. Qneensl. xviii. p. 155 (1903) ..... oodes 



Proboscis fully developed ; palpi of male upturned, short, thickly scaled, 

 of female obliquely porrect and extending about the length of head ; maxillary 

 palpi minute, filiform ; frons with large tuft of hair : antennae of male almost 

 simple, the first joint rather long. Forewing rather short and broad, the costa 

 moderately arched, the apex rounded ; veins 3 and 5 from near angle of cell ; 

 6 from upper angle ; 7, 8, 9 stalked from before angle, 7 from before 9 ; 10, 11 

 from cell ; the male typically without secondarj^ sexual characters. Hindwing 

 with vein 2 from near angle of cell : 3 and 5 strongly stalked. 4 absent ; the 

 discocellulars angled inwards to near base ; 6, 7 from upper angle ; 7 anastomosing 

 with 8. 



Sect. I. (Hypolophota). Forewing of male on underside with costal fold 

 extending to beyond middle of wing and containing large masses of flccculent 

 hair, vein 5 well separated from 4. 



( i ) Heteromicta amydrastis. 



Hypolophota amydrastis Turner, Pr. R. Soc. Queensl. xriii. p. 156 (1904). 



Queensland. The forewing {fide Turner) sometimes has vein 7 from 8 

 beyond 9. 



