80 South African Heterocera 
Joicey collection; and, with the exception of that in the last-named 
which is from West Africa, they were taken at Selukwe, which is near 
Umvuma. As far as I am aware, it has not been found in any other 
localities in Southern Rhodesia. 
Lord Rothschild, in describing the genus Vudaurelia, Nov. Zool. 
II, p. 41 (1895) states that this genus differs from Antherwa in the 
second, third and fourth joints of the feet being together longer than 
the first joint alone, and in having the tarsi cylindrical and not 
flattened as in Antherea. 
In WV. oubie, herselia and carnegie these joints are certainly 
cylindrical, but the three mentioned joints are as long as the first 
joint or even a little longer. Packard in Mem. Nat. Acad. of Sciences, 
XI, p. 45, makes a similar remark and suggests that Lord Rothschild’s 
specimens must have been imperfect. Lord Rothschild also states 
that the abdomen in the male of Vudaurelia reaches the anal angle 
of the hind-wing and in the female even beyond it, but in the three 
species mentioned above the abdomen in both sexes is shorter and 
does not reach the anal angle, though it is longer than in Antheraa. 
NUDAURELIA HERSELIA, Westw. 
e 
Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond. 1849, p. 42, pl. ix, fig. 1. 
This species is recorded from the Congo, and as far as I know has 
now been found for the first time in South Africa. I caught three 
males at Umtali in January, 1918, and I also saw a female from the 
same locality. It resembles the next species very much, but is at 
once distinguished by the absence of the black irroration on the 
fore-wing, the smaller and rounder ocelli on both wings, the red 
irroration on the hind-wing and the more crenulated post-medial lines 
which in the hind-wing is also very remote from the ocellus. 
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NUDAURELIA OUBIE, Guer. 
In Lefebvre Voy. in Abys. p. 387, pl. xii, ff 1, 2 (1849). 
The type specimen, a female, came from Abyssinia, and, as far as I 
know, this species has not been recorded from any intermediate places, 
suddenly turning up in Salisbury. The following is a description of 
the South African form which differs in several respects from the 
figure of the Abyssinian specimen. I have little doubt, however, that 
they are co-specific. 
