The Moths of South Africa. 297 



(2) Sesamia albipuncta, n. sp. 



3" . Fuscous brown ; vertex of head rather pale ; palpi black at 

 sides ; pectus, streaks on legs and ventral surface of abdomen 

 blackish. Forewing with white discoidal point. Hindwing some- 

 what paler brown. 



ffab. Cape Colony, Transkei (Miss F. Barrett). Exp. 30 mill. 

 Type in B.M. 



(3) Sesamia vutebia, Stoll. Suppl. Cram. Pap. Exot. pi. 86, f. 5 



(1783). 

 Cossits nonagrioides, Lef. Ann. S. Linn. Paris, 1827, p. 98, pi. 5. 

 Leucania incerta, Wlk. ix. 103 (1856). 

 mferens, Wlk. ix, 105 (1856). 

 ,, pruscripta, Wlk. ix. 106 (1856). 

 Nonayria intestata, Wlk. ix. 130 (1856). 

 Sesamia fraterna, Moore, Lep. Alk. p. 103 (1879). 

 Hab. Southern Europe; Japan; India, Ceylon, and Burma; 



Borneo; Mashonaland, Salisbury (Marshall); Natal (Gooch) ; 



Cape Colony (Dr. A. Smith). Exp. 32-38 mill. 



(4) Sesamia coniota, n. sp. 



Ochreous white. Forewing irrorated with black scales aggregated 

 to form points below middle of cell, base of vein 2 and beyond the 

 cell in discal fold. 



Hab. Mashonaland, Salisbury (Marshall). Exp. 20-22 mill. 

 Type in B.M. 



Sect. II. Antenna of male ciliated. 



A. Forewing with the ground colour pink or pinkish. 



a. Forewing without black point in lower angle of cell tcenioleuca. 



b. Forewing with black point in lower angle of cell albivena. 



B. Forewing with the ground colour ochreous. 



a. Forewing with terminal series of black points epunctifera. 



b. Forewing without terminal series of points flavescens. 



(5) Sesamia t^nioleuca, Wllgrn. Svensk. Akad. Handl. v. 4, p. 58 



(1866). 



Hub. Mashonaland, Salisbury (Marshall) ; Damaraland, Kuisip. 

 Exp. 34 mill. 



(6) Sesamia albivena, n. sp. 



Head and thorax ochreous white, the thorax tinged with pink ; 

 palpi and forelegs fuscous; abdomen white. Forewing pale flesh 

 pink ; the veins whitish ; a fuscous streak along median nervure from 



