462 Mr. W. L. Distant on 



punctate, the lateral margins pilose, shorter than the abdo- 

 men, broadest at humeral angles, beyond which they are 

 distinctly emarginate, their apices narrow and subacute. Legs 

 pilose; femora with their apical areas very strongly globose, 

 especially those of the posterior femora, which are also 

 coarsely punctate. Body beneath greyishly pilose. 



Long. 8-9 millim. 



Hab. Transvaal, Lydenburg District. 



I have placed this species provisionally in the Eastern 

 genus Merionceda, with which it generally agrees. It will 

 probably afford the characters for a new genus. 



LEPIDOPTERA. 



Heterocera. 

 Fam. ArctiadaB. 



The following species of Pusiola has been kindly worked out 

 and described by Sir G. F. Hampson : — 



Pusiola psectriphora, Hamps., sp. n. 



£ . Antenna? bipectinate, with short branches ending in 

 a bristle; fore wing with vein 11 very faint and almost 

 obsolete. 



Orange-yellow ; palpi at tips and fore tibiae tinged with 

 fuscous ; abdomen greyish towards base. Fore wing with 

 the inner area very slightly tinged with fuscous : hind wing 

 rather paler orange-yellow. 



Hab. Transvaal, Pretoria {Distant). 



Exp. 36 millim. 



Fam. Noctuidae. 

 Eublemma plumbosa, sp. n. 



Anterior wings and pronotum very pale plumbeous, greyish 

 towards base; head, antennae, anterior margin to pronotum, 

 costal margin and outer marginal fringe to anterior wings, 

 and abdomen golden yellow ; posterior wings and base of 

 abdomen pale stramineous ; a small dark apical plumbeous 

 streak at apices of anterior wings. Anterior wings beneath 

 much darker than above ; body beneath and legs golden 

 yellow. 



Exp. wings 20 millim. 



Hab. Transvaal, Pretoria (coll. Dist.). Mashunaland, 

 Salisbury (Brit. Mus.). 





