284 THE ENTOMOLOGIST. 



DESCRIPTIONS OF FOUR NEW SPECIES OF NOCTUID^ 

 FROM THE TRANSVAAL. 



By W. L. Distant. 



The moths here descrihed will be figured in my ' Insecta 

 Transvaaliensia,' and I have to thank Sir G. F. Hampson for 

 his assistance in rendering their generic localisation in unison 

 with his revision of the family. 



Proruaca harmonica, sp. n. 



Head and pronotum griseous brown, the eyes and anterior margin 

 of the pronotum distinctly darker ; abdomen greyish white, its apex 

 fuscous ; sternum ochreous white, the legs dark brownish, more or 

 less mottled with greyish white, especially the tibife and tarsi. Anterior 

 wings griseous brown, crossed at about one-third from base with an 

 inwardly oblique and outwardly much angulated dark fascia, and with 

 a similarly coloured but wider fascia commencing near outer angle, and 

 at about oue-third from its base bifurcating, the outer branch reaching 

 costal margin near apex, the inner branch inwardly curved and reaching 

 costal margin near the apes of the subbasal fascia, the outer margin 

 of the bifurcated fascia being somewhat broadly dark purplish brown, 

 with two prominent spinous angulations ; posterior wings creamy 

 white, the apices of the veins and a submarginal line palely fuscous. 

 Both wings beneath creamy white, anterior wings with the apex dusted 

 with fuscous, and with a marginal series of pale fuscous spots ; posterior 

 wings marked as above. Exp. wings, 40 millim. 



Hah. Pretoria. 



Xanilioptera carcaroda, sp. n. 



Head, pronotum, and anterior wings dark chocolate-brown ; abdo- 

 men, body beneath, legs, and posterior wings very pale fuscous ; legs 

 speckled and spotted with brown. Anterior wings with obscui'e darker 

 lineate spots, and with an apical marginal series of castaueous short 

 lanceolate fascia, the outer marginal fringe alternately marked with 

 greyish ; posterior wings with the fringe greyish. Long. 32 millim. 



Hah. Lydenburg district. 



Eutelia callichroma, sp. n. 



Body above pale ochraceous, a macular central transverse fascia, 

 and a subbasal spot to pronotum, two inwardly bent central discal 

 fascia to abdomen united posteriorly and containing three intermediate 

 spots dark brownish ochraceous ; body beneath and legs pale ochra- 

 ceous, the tibiffi and tarsi mottled with greyish white. Anterior wings 

 ochraceous, mottled with brownish ochraceous, with two short oblique 

 purplish brown fasciae, the first at about one-third from base inwardly 

 directed from beneath discoidal cell to inner margin, the second at 

 about one-third from apex outwardly directed from costal margin to 

 less than one-half across apical area, the inner fascia preceded and the 

 outer fascia followed by a pale castaueous spot marghied with ochreous 



