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on tlie 24t]i October 1870. Two of the three $ s sent by Mr. T. Ayres from 

 the Potchefstroom District have the white markings of the fore-wings better 

 developed than in any other examples I have seen ; their general colouring is 

 rather paler and their black spots are smaller than i;sual. 



Localities of Arrugia Basuta. 



I. South Africa. 



B. Cape Colony. 



d. Basutoland. — Maseru (/. H. Botvker). 



D. Kaflfraria Proper. — Bashee Kiver (/. H. Boivker). 



E. i^atal. 



a. Coast Districts. — Pinetown {W. Movant), 

 h. Upper Districts. — Estcourt (/. M. Hutchinson). 

 K. Transvaal. — Potchefstroom District {T. Ayres). Locality not noted 

 {W. Alorant). 



Genus LACHNOCNEMA, N.G} 



Lticia [part], Hopffer, in Peter's Reisenach Mossamb., — Ins., p. 412 (1862). 

 ? Lucia, Trim., Rhop. Afr. Aust., ii. p. 280 (1866). 



Imago. — Head small, roughly hairy (especially in front) ; eyes 

 densely hairy; palpi long, ascendant, densely clothed beneath with 

 bristly hair (especially on first and second joints), — terminal joint 

 long, acute ; antennm short, thick, very gradually and cylindrically 

 clavate, blunt at tip. 



Thorax short, moderately stout, or rather slender, very hairy 

 throughout. Fore-wings rather long ; hind-margin convex, entire ; 

 costa very slightly convex ; apex pronounced ; inner margin thinly 

 ciliated ; costal nervure short, ending about middle ; subcostal nervure 

 four-branched, — first and second nervules emitted before extremity of 

 discoidal cell, — third and fourth at origins much nearer to extremity 

 of cell than to apex (fourth ending at apex) ; discoidal cell of moderate 

 width, rather short ; upper radial nervule joined to subcostal nervure 

 at extremity of cell ; disco- cellular nervules almost vertical, — lower 

 one joining third median nervule at some distance from latter's origin. 

 Hind-wings rather long, broad ; hind-margin very convex, entire ; inner 

 margin with long thin cilia ; costal nervure extending to apex ; sub- 

 costal nervure branched at extremity of discoidal cell ; disco- cellular 

 nervules almost equal in length, rather oblique, — lower one joining 

 third median nervule at an angle some way beyond latter's origin ; 

 discoidal cell very short, rather broad ; submedian nervure unusually 

 short; internal nervure very short. (Hind-marginal cilia in both 

 wings dense and long.) Legs short, stout ; femora and (especially) 

 tibite clothed with scales and with very long extremely dense woolly 



,' From \a.xvri, wool, and Kv-q^r), tibia. 



