316 Annals of the South African Museum. 



(1) AcoNTiA APOLLiNis, Guen. Noct. ii. 212 (1852). 

 Thiganusa euproctoides , Wlk. xxxiii. 979 (1865). 

 Hah. Natal (Burrows, Gooch). Exp. 42 mill. 



(2) AcoNTiA GE^LLsi, Feistli. Ann. Soc. Ent. Fr. vi. p. 300, pi. 12, 



f. 3 (1837). 

 Hah. Southern Europe; West Africa, Sierra Leone; Abyssinia; 

 British Central Africa; Mashonaland, Salisbury (Marshall); 

 Natal (Gooch), Estcourt (Hutchinson) ; Mauritius ; Aden ; 

 India ; Burma. Exp. 36-43 mill. 



(3) AcoNTiA MALv^, Esp. Schmett. iv. 2, p. 63, pi. 195, f. 4 (1777). 

 Ha,h. S. Europe; Transvaal; Natal; Formosa; India; Ceylon. 



Exp. 30-36 mill. 



Genus NEAXBSTIS, nov. 



Proboscis fully developed; palpi upturned, slender, reaching 

 vertex of head ; frons rounded ; antennae with fasciculate ciha ; 

 tibiae with the spurs long ; hind tibiae with tuft of hair at extremity. 

 Forewing with vein 3 from before angle of cell ; 4, 5 from angle ; 

 6, 7 from upper angle, 8, 9 absent in male, female with 8 shortly 

 stalked with 7, 9 absent ; 10, 11 from cell. Hindwing with veins 3, 

 4, 5 from angle of cell ; 6, 7 from upper angle. 



A. Forewing with the antemedial line acutely angled acutangula. 



B. Forewing with the antemedial line obliquely curved griseata. 



(1) Neaxestis actuangula, n. sp. 



Head and thorax yellow-brown, the head pale ; abdomen whitish, 

 dorsally tinged with brown. Forewing yellow- brown irrorated with 

 fuscous ; the costal edge whitish ; the lines pale yellow ; the ante- 

 medial line acutely angled on median nervure and very oblique 

 towards costa and inner margin ; the postmedial line very acutely 

 angled at vein 6, its point curved upwards towards apex, then ex- 

 tremely obhque. Hindwing ochreous white, the termen and cilia 

 tinged with red-brown. 



Hah. Cape Colony, Annshaw (Miss F. Barrett). Exp). <? 26, 

 ? 30 mill. 



(2) Neaxestis gbiseata, n. sp. 



S . Head and thorax white ; tegulae tinged with pink, vertex of 

 thorax brown ; abdomen white dorsally tinged with brown. Fore- 



