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Genus HENIOCHA. 



Heniocha, Hiibner, Verz. bek. Schmett. p. 157 (1822?). 



Kirby, in his ' Catalogae,' places two species found in British India under this genus, but 

 Hampson locates these as synonyms in the genus Saturnia.* The genus may therefore be 

 considered as confined to the Ethiopian Region. 



A South African species, H. appolonia, Cram., which I neither found in the Transvaal, 

 nor have received from that colony, is reported by Miss Barrett at Umtata as evidently 

 coming " from buried chrysalids, as they are so generally found in the long grass under a 

 bush " ; a chrysalis was indeed found bare, half in and half out of the ground. t 



21. Heniocha fiavida. (Tab. IV., fig. 11.) 



Saturnia flaviila, Butler, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. (4) vol. xs. p. 462 (1877) ; Westw. in Oates's ' Matabele 



Land,' p. 857 (1881). 

 Heniocha apoUonia ah. /lavida, Rothsch. Novitates Zool. vol. ii. p. 49 (1895). 

 Heniocha flavida, Kirby, Syn. Cat. Lepid. Heteroc. p. 771, n. 9 (1892) ; Dist. Aun. Mag. Nat. Hist. (6) 



vol. xix. p. 391 (1897). 



Hab. — Transvaal; Pretoria (Distant). 



I only took two specimens during my stay in the Transvaal Colony. They were both 

 found at the base of an electric light near Pretoria. 



22. Heniocha dyops. (Tab. III., fig. 9.) 



Saturnia dyops, Maassen & Weymer, Beitr. Schmett. v. figs. 113, 114 (1886). 



Heniocha dyops, Kirby, Syn. Cat. Lepid. Heteroc. p. 771, n. 6 (1892) ; Dist. Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. (6) 

 vol. xix. pp. 391 and 894 (1897). 



Hab. — Transvaal; Pretoria (Distant). 



I found this species not uncommon at Pretoria, but very variable in markings. One of 

 the specimens now before me agrees with the typical figure in having the ocellated spot of 

 the anterior wings connected with the transverse fascia ; in all the other specimens they are 

 more or less widely separated. The discal spot to the posterior wings is sometimes very 

 distinct, or absent on one wing, or totally wanting on both ; the inner transverse fascia to 

 the same wings is either complete, or sometimes abbreviated. 



Genus GOODIA. 



Goodia, Holland, Ent. News Philad. p. 178 (1893) ; Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. (6) vol. xii. p. 251 (1898). 

 Orthoijonioptiluw , Karsch, Berlin. Ent. Zeitschr. xxxvii. p. 501 (1893). 

 Lasioptilo, Kirby, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. (6) vol. xviii. p. 387 (1896). 



I include this genus in the Sphingicampinse on the following authority. Butler describes 

 an allied species from British East Africa ((?. hoUandi), and states, on the information of its 

 captor, C. S. Betton, larva obtained 12th December, pupated 20th December, emerged 

 4th May following.]: 



* ' Fauna British India,' Moths, vol. i. p. 23. t ' Entomologists' Monthly Magazine,' 1901, p. 192. 



♦ Proc. Zool. Soc. 1898, p. 431. 



