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CHECK- LIST 



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 The South African 



LEPIDOPTERA HETEROCERA. 



By A. J. T. JANSE. 



The first attempt to catalogue the South African moths 

 was made by Sir George F. Sampson in the Annals of the 

 South African Museum, but unfortunately this work was not 

 completed and is now about fifteen years old. 



Since then many additions have been made to the fami- 

 lies treated in the above mentioned work; most species have 

 been described in the various journals, annals and periodicals 

 and in the "Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalaena in tin 

 British .Museum.*' 



It was therefore thought that a list of our moths would 

 be welcome to the workers on South African Beterocera, 

 especially for help in the arranging of collections and as a 

 reference to the principal literature on the subject. 



Only the original descriptions have been quoted, as 

 fuller information would have extended the work far beyond 

 the limits of a check list. For the same reason only such 

 species have been included as have been actually recorded 

 from South Africa or have been found by myself to belong 

 to this fauna. 



My observation on the localities was not only based on 



my own extensive collection, but I had free access t" the 

 collections of several South African Museums and to those 

 of many private collectors. 



The South African Heterocerous fauna is not sharply 

 denned, ami I have no doubt that many Central African 

 species will be recorded from South Africa when the Wes 

 tern and Northern parts of our Bub-continent have been bet 

 ter explored. 



