54 Annals of the South African Museum. 



Genus ESTIGMBNE. 



Type. 

 Estigmene, Hiibn. Verz. p. 184 (1827) acraa. 



A. Porewing bright lemon yellow. 



a^. Forewing with black streaks on the veins lemniscata. 



6'. Porewing without black streaks on the veins . . . . dissiniilis. 



B. Forewing bright ochreous yellow with fine black streaks 



on the veins » tenuistrigata. 



C. Forewing dull ochreous with somewhat diffused black 



streaks linea. 



D. Porewing white with three straight black streaks . . . . trivitta. 



(1) Estigmene lemniscata, Dist. A.M.N.H. (7) 1, p. 116 (1897). 

 Hab. Transvaal, Johannesburg (Cregoe). Exp. 34 mill. 



(2) Estigmene dissimilis, Dist. A.M.N.H. (6) xx. p. 198 (1897). 

 Hab. Transvaal, Johannesburg (Cregoe). Ex^'). 40 mill. 



(3) Estigmene tenuistrigata, n. sp. 



^ . Head and thorax bright ochreous yellow ; palpi above, 

 antennse, and tibiae and tarsi above, black ; abdomen orange with 

 dorsal black bands and lateral series of black points, the ventral 

 surface ochreous. Forewing bright ochreous yellow ; the veins with 

 fine black streaks except the costal and base of subcostal nervures. 

 Hindwing ochreous yellow, the veins with very slight black streaks. 

 Hab. Mashonaland, SaHsbury (Marshall). Exp. 46 mill. 



(4) Estigmene linea, Wlk. iii. 671 (1855). 

 Spilosoma dorsalis, Wlk. iii. 671 (1855). 



truncatum, Wlk. vii. 1781 (1856). 

 strigatum, Wllgrn. Wien. Ent. Mon. iv. p. 161 (1860). 

 Lacides lineata, Butl. Cist. Ent. ii. p. 27 (1875). 

 Hab. Natal, Karkloof (Marshall), Estcourt (Hutchinson) ; 

 Cape Colony (Gueinzius, Smith), Transkei (Miss F. Barrett). 

 Exp. 44 mill. 



(5) Estigmene trivitta, W'lk. iii. 673 (1855). 



Hab. Natal (Gueinzius). Exp. $ 42, $ 46 mill. 



Genus MiENAS. 



Type. 



Manas, Hiibn. Verz. p. 167 (1827) vocula. 



Eutania, Wllgrn. CBfv. Svensk. Akad. Forh. 



xxxii. (1) p. 102 (1876) arborifera. 



A. Porewing with three patches on costa beyond middle . . . . vocula. 



B. Porewing with fascia on costa beyond middle arborifera. 



