276 Annals of the South African Museum. 



Leucania melianoides, Mosehl. Verb. Zool. 

 hot. Ges. Wien. xxxiii. p. 291, pi. xvi, 

 f. 4 (1883) Cape Colony. 



Leucania haziyce,, Mosehl. Verb. Zool. bot. 

 Ges. Wien. xxxiii. p. 292, pi. xvi. f. 5 

 (1883) ■ Cape Colony. 



Sub-Family POLIAN^. 



A. Collar forming a raised hood ; abdomen with dorsal crests of 



scales Gucuilia. 



B. Collar normal. 



a. Abdomen with dorsal crests of scales Folia. 



b. Abdomen without dorsal crests. 



ai. Fore tibise with claw on outer side Ectochela. 



&i. Fore tibifE without claw Heliophohus. 



Genus CUCULLIA. 



Type. 

 Cucullia, Scbrank Faun. Boica, II. 2, p. 157 



(1802) verbasci. 



A. Forewing with silvery fascia from middle of cell to termen . . hutchinsoni. 



B. Forewing with golden-yellow fascise in and beyond cell and 



above basal half of vein 1 chrysota. 



C. Forewing with whitish fasciffi in and beyond cell and above basal 



half of vein 1 •. .. imllidistria. 



D. Forewing without silvery white or golden fasciae. 



a. Forewing wholly brownish hrunnea. 



h. Forewing with the costal area brownish . . extricata. 



c. Forewing with the costal area grey. 



ai. Forewing without orbicular and reniform stigmata . . . . africana. 

 &i. Forewing with the orbicular stigma represented by four 



black points, the reniform fairly distinct terrensis. 



ci. Forewing with the orbicular stigma annulate, the reni- 

 form distinct consimilis. 



(1) Cucullia hutchinsoni, n. sp. 



Head and thorax grey with darker irroration and a slight brown 

 tinge ; palpi with some black at base ; abdomen whiter with slight 

 dark irroration, the extremity browner, the ventral surface white. 

 Forewing with the costal and inner areas grey-brown with dark 

 irroration; the rest of wing bright rufous with ochreous yellow 

 streaks below base of costa, below the cell, above vein 1, and above 

 vein 6 towards termen ; a brilliant silver fascia from middle of cell 

 to near termen attenuate at each end ; traces of an oblique waved 



