296 Annals of the South African Museum. 



Genus CONICOPEONTIA, nov. 



Proboscis aborted, minute ; palpi porrect to just beyond the frons 

 and fringed with long hair below ; frons with conical prominence ; 

 antennae of female ciliated ; thorax and abdomen without crests. 

 Forewing with veins 3 and o from near angle of cell ; 6 from just 

 below upper angle ; 9 from 10 anastomosing with 8 to form the 

 areole. Hindwing with veins 3, 4 from angle of cell ; 5 obsolescent ; 

 6, 7 from upper angle. 



CONICOFRONTIA SESAMOIDES, U. Sp. 



? . Head and thorax ocbreous grej' mixed with brown ; abdomen 

 whitish with obscure fuscous bands. Forewing ochreous grey 

 strongly irrorated with black ; short subterminal black striae above 

 veins 4, 5 with traces of others above and below them. Hindwing 

 whitish suffused with fuscous, 



Hab. Cape Colony, Transkei (Miss F. Barrett). Exp. 38 mill. 

 Type in B.M. 



Genus SESAMIA. 



Type. 

 Sesamia, Guen. Noct. i. p. 95 (1852) vuteria. 



Sect. I. Antennae of male bipectinate with short branches. 



A. Forewing fuscous. 



a. Forewing with ante- and post-medial lines . . fusca. 



h. Forewing without transverse lines alhivuncta. 



B. Forewing ochreous, without lines. 



a. Forewing tinged with rufous, the veins pale vuteria. 



b. Forewing ochreous white irrorated with black . . coniota. 



(1) Sesamia fusca, u. sp. 



Head and thorax black-brown ; abdomen ochreous dorsally tinged 

 with black ; tarsi with pale rings. Forewing brown strongly tinged 

 with black ; traces of a black antemedial line angled outwards below 

 cell ; orbicular and reniform indistinct with black outlines ; a minutely 

 crenulate postmedial line excurved from costa to vein 3, then oblique ; 

 an oblique subterminal series of dentate black spots with more or 

 less prominent ochreous line on their outer edge ; a terminal series 

 of black points. Hindwing ochreous more or less completely suffused 

 with fuscous ; a slight discoidal lunule and traces of a curved post- 

 medial series of dark points. 



Hab. Cape Colony, Annahaw (Miss F. Barrett). Exj). <? 36, 

 ? 40 mill. Type in B.M. 



