86 INSECT A TRANSVAALIENSIA. 



Hab. — Transvaal; Pretoria (Colls. Dist. and Pret. Mus.). — Natal; German East Africa. 

 The female resembles the male, but is a little larger, and without the white black- 

 margined spot to the anterior wing. 



2. Chrysopoloma bicolor. (Tab. VIII., figs. 2^, 3 $ .) 



Stenoglene bicolor, Distant, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. (6) vol. xx. p. 206 (1897). 2 . 



Male. Much darker than female ,- anterior wings infuscated on upper apical area, and with a white 

 hlack-margined spot at apex of discoidal cell ; posterior wings castaneous, the fringe and some hasal suffusions 

 ochraceous ; wings beneath ochraceous, the white spot to the anterior wings above, subobsolete beneath. 



Hab. — Transvaal ; Pretoria, Pienaars Piiver (Distant). 



I found this species on wing in the month of November, and at light. My original 

 description was made from female specimens only, but I have since received a male from 

 Pretoria, which is here figured. 



3. Chrysopoloma varia. (Tab. VIII., fig. 4^.) 



Chrysopoloma raria, Dist. Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. (7) vol. iv. p. 362 (1899). 

 Hab. — Transvaal ; Pretoria (Coll. Dist.). — Delagoa Bay (Muir). 



A variable species, sometimes with a distinct oblique linear piceous fascia crossing 

 anterior wings a little beyond middle;' in other specimens with many of the spots obliterated. 

 I have not seen the female. 



4. Chrysopoloma restricta. (Tab. VIIL, fig. 5^? .) 



Chrysopoloma restricta, Distant, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. (7) vol. iv. p. 362 (1899). 

 Hab. — Transvaal ; Lydenburg District (Coll. Dist.). 

 I have only received the male of this species. 



Fam. NOTODONTID^. 



Bombycites, div. LeyitimcB (part), Latreille, Gen. Crust, et Ins. iv. p. 217 (1809). 



BimorphtB (part), Ptilodontes, Andria, and Melalophm, Hiibn. Verz. bek. Schmett. pp. 145, 147, 162 (1822?). 

 Notodontidce, Stephens, 111. Brit. Ent. Haust. ii. p. 10 (1828) ; Hamps. Fauna Brit. India, Moths, vol. i. p. 124 

 (1892) ; Packard, Mem. Nat. Acad. Sci. vol. vii. p. 87 (1895). 



The original family characters, as given by Stephens, are as follows : — " Palpi more or 

 less evident, two, rarehj four, in number, sometimes elongate, verij hairy: maxilla- usuullij distinct, not 

 spiral, resemhling two slender filamentous processes. Antenncc moderate, more or less bipectinated, 

 especially in the males, or setaceous, frequently serrated or ciliated in the females ; body not very stout, 

 the apex of the males tufted; wings defiexed, entire. Males smaller than the females. Larva 

 sparingly covered with hairs, or naked, greatly diversified in form, frequently with one or more elevated 

 tubercular appendages, the ttvo anal legs sometimes converted into a furcate tail ; pupa often folliculated, 

 sometimes subterranean." 



To this may be added Hampson's description of the venation: — "Fore wing with la 



