62 Annals of the South African Museum. 



Genus SECUSIO. 



Type. 



Secusio, Wlk. ii. 558 (1854) strigata 



Galtara, Wlk. xxvi. 1688 (1862) 2^urata. 



A. Hindwing orange. 



a. Forewing with the band formed by distmct white spots. . strigata. 

 h. Forewing with the white band continuous and diffused . . mania. 



B. Hindwing brownish white. 



a. Forewing with series of five postmedial black spots 



between costa and vein 3 pustularia. 



h. Forewing without postmedial black spots above vein 5 . . pulverata. 



c. Forewing without postmedial black spots . . purata. 



(1) Secusio steigata, Wlk. ii. 559 (1854). 



Nyctemera hymencea, Gerst. Arch. f. Nat. xxxvii. p. 360 (1871). 



Van d. Decken. Eeisen. iii. (2) p. 377, pi 16, f. 1. 

 Secusio iDarvijnincta, Hmpsn. 111. Het. B.M. viii. p. 46, pi. 139, 



1 16 (1891). 

 Hah. South India, Nilgiris ; Aden ; East Africa, Zanzibar, 



Machakos, Kilim'njaro ; Natal, Malvern (Marshall). Exp. 



40 mill. 



(2) Secusio mania, Druce, P.Z.S. 1887, p. 672 (1888). 

 Hah. Delagoa Bay (Mrs. Monteiro). Exp. 42 mill. 



(3) Secusio pustulaeia, Wlk. xxvi. 1661 (1862). 

 Author a privata, Wlk. xxxii. 335 (1865). 



Hah. Natal (Gueinzius) ; Cape Colony, Bushman's Lake (Alston), 

 Capetown (Trimen). Exp. 34-40 mill. 



(4) Secusio pulveeata, n. sp. 



$ . Head and thorax white, tinged with brown ; palpi black at 

 sides ; antennae with the branches brown ; neck orange ; tegulae, 

 patagia, pro- and meta-thorax with small black spots ; tib^e at 

 extremity and tarsi streaked with black; abdomen dull white, 

 tinged with orange towards extremity, dorsal and two lateral series 

 of black spots. Forewing dull white, striated wdth pale brown ; 

 a sub-basal black mark below costa and three ante-medial points 

 in and above cell, an irregular brownish medial band from costa 

 to submedian fold with a short black streak on it just above median 

 nervure and spot above base of vein 2 ; a postmedial point above 

 vein 7 with brownish mark above it on costa, two between veins 

 5 and 3, and one on inner margin ; a terminal series of points with 

 larger spot above vein 5. Hindwing white, slightly tinged with 



