60 INSECT A TEANSVAALIENSIA. 



Hab. — Transvaal ; Barberton (Kendall). — Described from Natal ; not uncommon at Delagoa Bay ; 

 recorded from Port Elizabeth. 



Food-plants of larva : — At Delagoa Bay on Ocnea purpurascens ? (Junod), on Ochna 

 atropiirpiirea (Mrs. Monteiro *). 



Varies in having the outer margins of the wings either pale ochraceous or smoky-brown. 

 This variation was observed in specimens taken at the same time in Barberton. 



Genus CINABKA. 



Cinabra, Sonthonnax, Ess. Classif. L6pid. product, de Sole (3" fascic), p. 61 (1901). 



A genus containing three species, all of which are found in the Transvaal. 



14. Cinabra hyperbius. (Tab. V., fig. 1.) 



Snturniu Iiijperhius, Westwood, in Oates's ' Matabele Land,' 1st ed., p. 357 (1881) ; id. Proc. Zool. See. Lend 



1881, p. 143, pi. xiii. fig. 3. 

 Btinaa hyperbius, Maass. & Weym. Beitr. Schmett. v. fig. 99 (1886). 

 Cinabra hyperbius, Sontb. Ess. Classif. Lepid. product, de Soie (3'" fascic), p. 61, pi. xxvi. figs. 2 and 3. 



Hab. — Transvaal ; Pretoria (Pret. Mus. & Coll. Dist.), Johannesburg (Cregoe). — Distributed 

 throughout Central and South-east Africa, but apparently seldom a common species. 



15. Cinabra bracteata. (Tab. III., fig. 5.) 



Antheraa bracteata. Distant, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. (6) vol. xis. p. 393 (1897). 



Hab. — Pretoria (Distant). 



The typical male specimen is here figured ; in a female example since received from the 

 same locality, the anterior wings are duller ochraceous, or slightly tinged with plumbaginous. 



16. Cinabra pygmsea. (Tab. V., fig. 5.) 



Bimim pyijmaa, Maassen & Weymer, Beitrag. Schmett. v. fig. 100 (1886). 

 Gonimbrasia pygmcea, Kirby, Syn. Cat. Lepid. Heteroc. p. 753 (1892). 

 Cinabra pygmaa, Sonth. Ess. Classif. Lepid. product, de Soie (3" fascic), p. 62 (1901). 

 Var. Bimiea pygela, Druce, Proc. Zool. Soc Lond. 1886, p. 409, pi. xxxviii. fig. 1. 



Gonimbrasia pygela, Kirby, Syn. Cat. Lepid. Heteroc. p. 753 (1892) ; Dist. Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. (6) 

 vol. xix. pp. 390 and 391 (1897). 



Hab. — Transvaal; Pretoria (Distant, and in Pret. Mus.). — Matabeleland. 



I only secured two specimens of this species during my whole stay in Pretoria, both of 

 which were taken at light. They are somewhat intermediate in form between pygela, Druce, 

 ind pygiiuea, M. & W. 



Genus GYNANISA. 



Gynanisa, Walker, Cat. Lepid. Heteroc. Brit. Mus. vi. p. 1267 (1855). 



Ancalaspina, Wallengr. Ofv. Vet.-Ak. Forh. xv. p. 140 (1858); id. Bihang Svensk. Akad. Hand). (2) Band v. 

 No. 4, p. 27 (1865). 



* ' Delagoa Bay,' p. 190. 



