Lasiocampidie in the British Museum. 315 



suffused with grey at hind margin and outer margin and by the hind- 

 wing being nearly as dark as fore-wing. 

 Expanse 33-35 mm. 



Natal : Brit. Museum ; Nyassaland and German 

 East Africa : Museum Holmix. 



Nearly allied to A. ("P/a/wrform") distincta, Dist., but 

 differing in the simple transverse lines of fore-wing and 

 by the median line not being strongly incurved at costal 

 margin. 



Taragama capensis, n. sp. 



(Plate XVI, fig. 11.) 



Abdomen, under-side of thorax and legs greyish-brown ; palpi 

 yellowish; head and upper-side of thorax whitish, the latter with 

 pale brown patches ; fore-wing fuscous-brown witli two oblique, 

 very irregularly sinuated, white transverse lines, inner line from 

 middle of costal margin to hind angle of cell and thence following 

 the median vein to middle of cell and ending at hind margin near 

 base, outer line from costal margin to vein 3 nearly parallel to outer 

 margin but forming two distinct projections on inner-side at veins 

 5 and 8, from vein 3 running oblkpuely to middle of hind margin 

 and forming two lunules, a spot at base in lb, a spot at end of cell 

 and a submarginal series of spots yellowish ; hind-wing fuscous with 

 transverse white line and a yellow spot at anal angle ; wings below 

 fuscous with an irregular transverse submarginal white line and one 

 or two yellowish spots near anal angle. 



Expanse 45 mm. 



Cape Colony : Brak Kloof, April ( White). 



Allied to Targama cristata but smaller and also differing 

 in the yellow spots and the darker ground-colour of the 

 wings. 



Taragama distinguenda, n. sp. 

 (Plate XVI, fig. 13.) 



^ . Body brown, darker on upper-side ; patagia deep castaneous 

 brown ; fore-wing dark castaneous brown paler towards outer margin, 

 an obsolete blackish dot at end of cell and beyond it two transverse 

 blackish-brown lines, the first arched and bent basally at costal margin, 

 the second nearly straight running from costal margin just before 

 apex to last third of hind margin ; the usual hind marginal area 



