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XVI.—On a Collection of Heterocera made in the Transvaal. 
By W. L. Distant. 
THs paper concludes the enumeration of my Transvaal 
Heterocera — Sphinges and Bombyces—as included in 
Mr. Kirby’s first volume of his ‘Synonymic Catalogue of 
Lepidoptera Heterocera.’ A few Sesiidxw have still to be re- 
corded, and then the Noctuidz and Geometride will be worked 
out. SiG. F. Hampson has kindly promised to undertake 
the description of the Pyralide, and my Tineidez, by the 
favour of Lord Walsingham, will receive the efficient treat- 
ment afforded these moths at his Merton Museum. 
In the constitution of the families I have followed the 
excellent “keys” afforded by Hampson in his standard and 
almost generally followed work on Heterocera in the ‘ Fauna 
of British India,’ and have sought to locate the African 
genera in the same system of family arrangement as he has 
Jaid down for the Oriental moths. The grouping of these 
families has, for the sake of general convenience, more or less 
followed the arrangement in Mr. Kirby’s Catalogue. The 
last matter is still a somewhat open question, and will 
probably see much fluctuation before finality is obtained. 
I hope eventually to figure all the new species described, 
both in this and other orders, in a future work. 
Where not otherwise specified the captures were my own. 
Fam. Agaristida. 
Species obtained in the Transvaal. 
Xanthospmlopteryx superba, Butl. Barberton (Dr. P. Rendall), Pretoria. 
Aigocera fervida, Walk. Barberton (Dr. P. Rendall), Pretoria. 
Ovios capensis, Herr.-Schaff. Barberton (Dr. P. Rendall). 
Pais decora, Linn. Pretoria. 
Fam. Arctiidae. 
Species obtained in the Transvaal. 
Pelochyta madagascariensis, Boisd. Lydenburg District (Zutrzenka). 
Apixa canescens, Walk. Barberton (Dr. P. Rendall), Pretoria. 
Decimia bicolora, Walk. Volksrust. 
Anace lateritia, Herr.-Schaff. Heidelberg, Pretoria. 
Metarctia rufescens, Walk. Barberton (Dr. P. Rendall), Pretoria. 
Rhodogastria amasis, Cram. Pretoria. 
Spilosoma dissimilis, sp. u. Pretoria. 
Senura flava, Wallengr. Barberton (Dr. P. Rendall), Pretoria. 
Leucaloa eugraphica, Walk. Pretoria. 
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