12 CHR. AURIVILLIUS, ETHIOPIAN GENERA OF STRIPHNOPTERYQID^. 



Fic 



6. Polonia angu- 

 lata cT. 



tibisB with 3 — 4 spurs, Wings moderately broad, densely 

 squainose. Före wing with vein 3 near angle of cell, 5 

 from well below upper augle, 6 from 

 upper angle or very shortly stalked 

 with 7 + 8 + O, 10 absent, 11 free from 

 cell near upper angle: lower disco- 

 cellular nearly straight and very slender 

 in its upper part; middle discocellular 

 rather long, straight and erect; veinlet 

 in cell distinct and deeply forked. Hind 

 wing with vein 5 near to upper angle 

 of cell, 6 and 7 stalked, 8 near base 

 connected with the cell by a bar; lower 

 discocellular oblique, nearly straight, 

 obtusely angled near its upper end. 

 Frenulum and retinaculum well deve- 

 loped in the male, absent in the female. 



Poloma differs from the nearly allied genus Phyllalia 

 by the almost straight lower discocellular of forewing and 

 by having 3 or 4 spurs to the hind tibise. 



*1. P. angulata Walker List 4 p. 858 (1855), 

 janida Felder No vara Lep. t. 94 f. 4 (1868). 

 Natal. 



2. P. nigromaculata Aurivillius Ent. Tidsskr. 14 p. 210 

 (1803). — Pl. 2 Fig 2 o^. 



Natal. 



3. P. castanea n. sp. — Tota castanea, capite, thorace et ab- 

 domine supra obscurioribus, fusco brunneis aut nigro- 

 brunneis; alis anticis ad raarginem costalem et exteriorem 

 infuscatis et pone medium lineis duabus transversis fuscis, 

 exteriore duplici, ornatis, infra castaneis lineis transversis 

 obsoletis; posticis utrinqe castaneis, supra unicoloribus, 

 pilis brunneo-fuscis ad marginem internum dense vestitis, 

 infra lineis duabus transversis fuscis; ciliis omnibus 

 brunneo-fuscis. — Exj)ans. alar. 57 mm. 



Natal. — Museum Holmise. 



The före wings are somewhat longer and narrower than 

 in P. angulata. At the base of the antennsc there are some 

 whitish hairs. 



