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17. Phasicnecus obtusus. 



Poloma obtusus, Walker, Cat. Lepid. Heteroc. Brit. Mus. xxsii. p. 357 (1865). 



Stenof/lene ohtusa, Kirby, Syn. Cat. Lepid. Heteroc. i. p. 809 (1892) ; Dist. Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. (6) xx. 



p. 205 (1897). 

 Stmof/lene tristis, Feld. Keise Novara Lep. iv. t. xcv. f. 4 (1874). 

 Messata tiistis, Kirby, Syn. Cat. Lepid. Heteroc. i. p. 809 (1892). 

 Phasicnecus obtusus, Aurivill. Bihang, Svenska Vet.-Ak. Handl. Bd. 27, Afd. iv. No. 7, p. 30 (1901). 



Allied to the two preceding species, but with the 

 anterior wings distinctly longer and pale castaneous above, 

 with the transverse fasciae as in P. suhcrocsus ; posterior wings 

 ochraceous, and shaded with pale castaneous towards abdominal 

 area; both wings beneath uniformly reddish-ochraceous ; an- 

 tennae with the under surface and pectinations more or less 

 creamy white, not black. 



Exp. wings, 57 to 60 millim. 



Hab. — Transvaal ; Pretoria (Distant). Fig. 8.— Phasicnecus obtusus. 



I found this species on the wing in the month of December. 



Fam. CHRYSOPOLOMID^. 



Chrysopolomidm, Aurivillius, Entomologisk Tidskrift, 1895, p. 110; Hamps. Cat. Lepid. Phalfenas, vol. i. 

 p. 19 (1898). 



This is a small family of Ethiopian Moths, fomided by Aurivillius on the genus 

 Chrijsopobma, to which Druce had ascribed several species. This genus was sunk by Kirby 

 in his Catalogue as a synonym of Stenoglene, Feld., an error which I unfortunately followed 

 in some of my specific descriptions. Aurivillius has included two genera in this family— 

 Chnjsopoloma, found in the Transvaal, and Eetropa, Wallengr., founded on a CaftVarian species 

 E. ancilis, not yet found within our faunistic limits. 



The principal publications on the South African Chrysopolomidae are :— 



AuKrviLLius, Chr. " Diagnosen neuer Lepidopteren aus Afrika." (Entomol. Tidskr. 1895, p. IIG.) 

 Druce, H. " Descriptions of some New Species of Heteroeera from Tropical Africa." (Free. Zool. Soc. 

 1886, p. 410.) 



Genus CHRYSOPOLOMA. 



Chrysoiioloma, Druce, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond. 188G, p. 410 {incl.) ; Aurivill. Entomol. Tidskr. 1895, p. 117. 

 Stenoglene part, Kirby, Syn. Cat. Lepid. Heteroc. vol. i. p. 809 (1892). 



This genus is found throughout tropical and subtropical Africa, but the number of species 

 it comprises is still uncertain. Some may probably be described under other genera, while 

 others certainly await description. 



1. Chrysopoloma isabellina. (Tab. VIII., fig. 1 c? .) 



Chnjsopoloma isabellina, Aurivillius, Entomol. Tidskr. 1895, p. 119. ^ . 



Chrysopoloma similis, Aurivill. loc. cit. 2 . 



Stenoglene isabellina, Disc. Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. (G) vol. xx. pp. 205 and 206 (1897). 



