298 Annals of the South African Museum: 



near base to near termen ; a black point in lower angle of cell ; some 

 specimens with traces of a black point below the cell before middle, 

 and of a curved subterminal series ; cilia with pale line at base, then 

 pinkish with three brown lines through them. Hindwing white 

 tinged with brownish, ochreous towards costa and termen. 



Hab. Mashonaland, Sahsbury (Marshall) ; Natal, Estcourt 

 (Hutchinson). Exp. 30-34 mill. 



(7) Sesamia epunctifera, n. sp. 



(? . Ochreous ; palpi blackish ; head and thorax mixed with 

 brown ; abdomen whitish tinged with fuscous. Forewing thickly 

 irrorated with black and tinged with brown especially on terminal 

 area ; tlie veins whitish ; a black point beyond the cell above vein 5 ; 

 a terminal series of black points. Hindwing white tinged with 

 ochreous towards termen. 



? . Abdomen whiter ; forewing slightly irrorated with black ; an 

 antemedial black point below the cell and traces of a curved post- 

 medial series of points from vein 5 to submedian fold. 



Hab. British East Africa, Athi-ya-Mawe (Betton) ; Cape Colony, 

 Annshaw (Miss F. Barrett). Exjj. 24 mill. Type in B.M. 



(8) Sesamia flavescens, n. sp. 



? . Head, thorax, and abdomen ochreous white ; palpi and legs 

 brownish. Forewing pale yellow, shghtly tinged with pink towards 

 costa ; the median nervure, the veins rising from it and vein 1 

 white with some fuscous scales, the former with slight fuscous 

 suffusion towards and beyond end of cell. Hindwing ochreous white 

 tinged with fuscous. 



Hab. Cape Colony, Annshaw (Miss F. Barrett). Exp. 26 mill. 

 Type in B.M. 



AUCTORUM. 



Simyra cajdllata, Wllgrn. (Efv. Vet. Akad. 



Forh. 1875, p. 104 Transvaal. 



Genus LEOCYMA. 



Type. 

 Leocyma, Guen. Noct. ii. p. 212 (1852) tibialis. 



Leocyma tibialis, Fabr. Syst. Ent. p. 578 (1775). 



Hab. Mashonaland, Umcheke Eoad (Marshall) ; Natal, Durban 



(Leigh); India; Formosa; New Ireland; Tahiti; Tonga. Exp. 



86-44 mill. 



