336 Annals of the South African Museum. 



AUCTORUM. 



Fodina hypercompoides, Wlk. xxxiii. 971 



(1865). Type lost Zambesi. 



Fodina arctioides, Wlk. xxxiii. 971 (1865). 



Type lost Natal. 



Grammodes tcedia, Feld. Eeis. Nov. pi. 115, 

 f. 1 (1874). Type lost Natal. 



Genus OPHIUSA. 



Type. 

 Ophiiisa, Ochs. Eur. Schmett. iv. p. 93 



(1816) algira. 



Ejpistona, Moschl. Verb. Zool. hot. Ges. 



Wien. xxxiii. p. 802 (1883) limula. 



Dermaleipa, Saalm. Lep. Madag. p. 460 



(1891) parallepipeda. 



Sect. I. Mid tibiffi of male dilated with a fold and fringe of large scales. 



A. Hind tarsi of male with the first joint fringed with hair above. 



a. Hindwing orange ci'oceipennis , 



b. Hindwing not orange. 



a'. Hindwing with white spots on termen. 



a-. Hindwing with more or less developed white medial band or spots. 

 a3. Forewing with the antemedial line oblique, waved, 

 a"*. Forewing greyish with prominent black 



ante- and post-medial lines catella. 



&■*. Forewing reddish brown with the lines in- 

 distinct mercatoria. 



h^. Forewing with the antemedial line incurved, not waved. 

 «,'*. Hindwing with prominent white spots at 



and below apex and on cilia below middle lienardi. 

 h*. Hindwing with white spot at apex and some 



grey on middle of termen . . echo. 



b-. Hindwing without medial band or spots illustrata. 



1)^. Hindwing without white spots on termen. 



a^. Forewing with the antemedial line incurved .. .. indetermmata. 

 b^. Forewing with the antemedial line outwardly oblique. 



a3. Forewing with the postmedial line not dentate. . faber. 

 b^. Forewing with the postmedial line dentate. 



a*. Hindwing with series of black points before termen. 

 flS. Forewing with the medial line bent in- 

 wards to costa boris. 



?)5. Forewing with the medial line not bent 



inwards to costa sordida. 



b*. Hindwing without black points before termen. 



