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Genus KIGEMA. 

 Riijema, Walker, Cat. Lepid. Heteroc. Brit. Mus. v. p. 1079 (1855). 



Recorded from Western and Southern Africa and Madagascar. Walker has also 

 doubtfully included a species from Australia which will probably find a place in another genus. 



6. Rigema woerdeni. (Tab. VIII., tig. 8.) 



Phalera woerdeni, Snellen, Tijdsclir. Ent. sv. p. 45, t. iv. figs. 1-3 (1872) ; Dist. Ann. Mug. Nai. Hist. (6) 

 vol. xs. p. 204 (1897). 



H AB. — Transvaal; Pretoria (Distant), Lydenburg District (Pret. Mus.). — West Africa; Lower Guinea 

 (Jide Snellen). 



I captured this species at Pretoria in the month of January. 



7. Rigema ornata. (Tab. VIII., fig. 9.) 



Rigema ornata, Waliier, Cat. Lepid. Heteroc. Brit. Mus. xsxii. p. 437 (1865); Dist. Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. (6) 

 vol. XX. p. 204 (1897). 



Hab. — Transvaal ; Pretoria (Distant), Waterberg District (Wilde). — Natal ; Newcastle (Coll. Dist.). 

 Transkei (Barrett). 



Miss Barrett, in the Transkei, obtained a female specimen in the month of November, 

 which deposited pink eggs " with a depression at the top," but which turned quite blue before 

 hatching. " The caterpillars at first were little black dots, which hung themselves by a 

 thread, or scrambled so about the place that I found them all over the work-table, just 

 escaped from the glass which held the eggs." Difficulty was experienced in discovering the 

 right food for these larvae ; but one full grown was subsequently discovered on coarse grass 

 by the riverside.* 



8. Rigema aurifodinae. (Tab. VIII., fig. 7.) 



Ri<ji'ina aiirijodnia, Distant, ' Eutouiologist,' sxsv. p. 213 (1902). 



Hab. — ^Transvaal; Pretoria (Swierstra), Johannesburg (Hyde). 



I did not meet with this species during four years' collecting in Pretoria and other parts 

 of the Transvaal. I have since received it, and almost simultaneously, from Mr. Swierstra, of 

 Pretoria, and Mr. J. Hyde, Jun., of Johannesburg. 



Genus ANTHEUA. 



Antheua, Walker, Cat. Lepid. Heteroc. Brit. Mus. iii. p. 766 (1855) ; Hamps. Fauna Biit. India, Moths, vol. i 



p. 145 (1892). 

 Sirenopyga, Walleugr. Ofv. Vet.-Ak. Forb. xv. p. 210 (1858). 



A genus common to tropical and subtropical Africa, British India and Ceylon, and Java. 



9. Antheua simplex. (Tab. VIII., tig. 11.) 



Antheiia simplex. Walker, Cat. Lepid. Heteroc. Brit. Mus. iii. \\. 766 (1855); Dist. Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. (6) 



vol. XX. p. 204 (1897). 



Sirenopyija ephippiata, Wallengr. Wieu. Ent. Mouatsclir. iv. p. 164, 1860; Kougl. Vet.-Ak. Haudl. (2; Bd. v. 



No. 4, p. 52 (1865). 



* Ent. Month. Mag. 1902, p. 124. 



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