228 Mr. W. L. Distant on 



Polydesma halnearia^ sp. n. 



Head and thorax greyish, with black shadings {thorax 

 rubbed in specimen described) ; abdomen above pale brownish 

 ochraceous ; body beneath and legs greyish white, legs more 

 or less streaked and spotted with fuscous. 



Anterior wings pale ochraceous, with narrow reddish- 

 brown strife ; base to about one third of cell more or less 

 purplish black, the outer edge clearly defined and containing 

 two short darker strise, commencing at costa and fusing about 

 halfway across wing ; beyond cell a much waved transverse 

 purplish fascia, bent inwardly beneath ceil, its inner margin 

 purplish black; beyond this fascia the colour is somewhat 

 pale violaceous, with a waved blackish line on outer margin 

 and an apical dark purplish patch with a pale centre. Poste- 

 rior wings pale greyish ochraceous, with a waved blackish 

 outer marginal line and with the veins more or less minutely 

 speckled. Wings beneath pale ochraceous ; apical area of 

 anterior wings and apical margin of posterior wings obscure 

 purplish. 



Exp. wings 34 millim. 



Hab. Transvaal, Warm Baths, Waterberg [Distant) . 



Polydesma dissimilis, sp. n. 



Head and thorax fuscous grey ; abdomen and body beneath 

 somewhat silvery grey. 



Anterior wings fuscous grey, with silvery reflection, crossed 

 by an obscure and exceedingly waved darker line, com- 

 mencing at about end of cell and deflected and continued 

 beneath cell to inner margin near base ; on outer margin a 

 series of dark rays between the veins. Posterior wings 

 silvery greyish white. Wings beneath obscure silvery 

 greyish white, both wings with a somewhat obsolete narrow 

 brownish submarginal fascia, 



Exp. wings 34 millim. 



Hab. Transvaal, Waterberg [Wilde). 



Somewhat diverse from the usual facies of the genus. 



Ophiusa salita, sp. n. 



Head and thorax reddish ochraceous, the last more or less 

 plumbeous on its posterior area ; abdomen and body beneath 

 pale o-rcyish ; logs with brownish suff'usions. 



Anterior wings reddish brown, thickly irroratcd with 

 greyish striaj ; both orbicular and reniform spots prominent, 

 oval, and with pale margins ; wing crossed by three narrow 



