Species of luOCMitididi from South Africa. 241 



with yellow outside, red towards the base on the inside 

 beneath. Hind tibije red, with a black stripe on each side, 

 and red spines; the black stripes are broadly interrupted 

 towards the base and that on the outer side is s|iotted with 

 yellow on its upper portion below the interruption. Inner 

 spine twice as long and thick as the outer; tarsi dull red. 

 Tegmina blackish towards the base and yellowish sub- 

 hyaline, irregularly clouded and reticulated with brown, 

 beyond. Wings hyaline, brown towards the margins. 



Hah. Zoutpansberg [Distant). 



Described from a single damaged specimen labelled 

 " H. hyalina, Sauss.," but it does not well agree with the 

 description of that species. 



4. Ileteropternis pallida. 



Long. corp. 28 millim.; exp. tegm. 37 millim. 



Female. — Light brown, cheeks smooth, varied with ivory- 

 white ; back of pronotum mottled with black, the sides with 

 a short oblique blackish band, and the back above semi- 

 circularly blackish to the extremity over the greater part of 

 the hinder lobe ; tegmina light subhyaline brown, with brown 

 and reddish-brown spots, nervures, and reticulations, the 

 outer third clearest ; the longitudinal spots darkest towards 

 the base in the subcostal area. Wings hyaline, with the 

 nervures on the costal third blackish, except at the base, the 

 costal nervure, and the longitudinal nervure abjve the last 

 two blackish ones, and all between the latter and the inner 

 margin, which are yellowish or whitish. Palpi reddish 

 brown, yellowish towards the base; legs reddish brown, 

 femora paler, hind femora slightly mottled with brown, with 

 two slightly marked brown transverse bands above, marked 

 on the upper carina with black spots ; the upper lateral carina 

 marked with more numerous small black bngitudinal spots 

 and the lower carina with much larger ones ; hind femora 

 with black-tipped spines ; abdomen light brown, indistinctly 

 marked, the valves black, reddish at the base. 



Hab. Figtree Creek, Barberton (Rendall). 



Probably allied to //. hyalina^ Sauss. 



5. Caloptenopsis femoralis. 



Long. Corp. 30 millim.; exp. al. 65 millim. 



Female. — Light brown, cheeks and lower mouth-j^arts 

 varied with glaucous white, sutures of face partly bordered 

 with blackish ; front with a median blackish bind extending 

 upwards and over the greater part of the pronotum above ; 



