258 Annals of the South African Museum. 



(3) Melicleptria armigeea, Hiibn. Samml. Eur. Schmett. Noct. 



ii. pi. 79, f. 3 (1827). 

 Heliothis pulverosa, Wlk. xi. 688 (1857). 



uniformis, Wllgrn. Wien. Ent. Mon. iv. p. 171 (1860). 

 Hah. Almost universally distributed : N'Gamiland (Lugard) ; 



Transvaal (Eoss) ; Natal, Malvern (Marshall), Durban (G. F. 



Leigh) ; Cape Colony, Knysna, Capetown (Trimen). Exp. 



31-41 mill. 



(4) Meliclepteia peltigera, Schiff. Wien. Verz. p. 82 (1776). 

 PhalcBYia charmione, Stoll, Cram. Pap. Exot. v. p. 162, pi. 36, 



f. 10 (1791). 

 Hah. Southern Europe; North Africa; Canaries; Cape Colony; 

 Armenia; Syria; Persia; Northern India. E'rKjo. 34-40 mill. 



Genus ADISURA. 



Type. 



Adisura, Moore, P.Z.S. 1881, p. 367 atkinsoni. 



A. Forewing yellowish white straminea. 



B. Forewing pale green cerugo. 



(1) Adisura straminea, n. sp. 



^ . Yellowish white, palpi above and lower part of frons brownish ; 

 abdomen dorsally tinged with ochreous. Forewing irrorated with a 

 very few black scales ; the inner and terminal areas tinged with 

 ochreous ; slight traces of a brownish streak from lower angle of cell 

 to termen and of an obliquely curved postmedial series of dark points. 

 Hindwing semihyaline, the terminal area tinged with ochreous. 



Hah. N'Gamiland (Lugard). Exp. 26 mill. Type in B.M, 



(2) Adisura ^rugo, Feld. Eeis. Nov. pi. 108, f. 45 (1874). 



Hab. Mashonaland, Salisbury (Marshall); Cape Colony, Ann- 

 shaw (Miss F. Barrett). Exp. 26 mill. 



Genus AGEOTIS. 



Type. 



Agrotis, Ochs. Schmett. Eur. iv. p. 66 (1816), 



non descr rectangula. 



Agrotis, Treit. Schmett. Eur. v. 1, p. 125 



(1825) rectangula. 



Chera, Hiibu. Verz, p. 211 (1827) serratilinea. 



Peridroma, Hiibn. Verz. p. 227 (1827) saucia. 



