340 Annals of the South African Museum. 



(15) Ophiusa beyoxantha, n. sp. 



? . Head and thorax red-brown mixed with white ; abdomen 

 reddish brown. Forewing red-brown suffused with sap-green ; five 

 waved dark lines before the medial almost straight line ; black points 

 at angles of cell ; two waved lines just beyond the cell excurved 

 from below costa to vein 4, then incurved ; the postmedial line 

 oblique from costa to vein 7 where it is acutely angled, then incurved 

 and highly dentate ; a rufous patch on apical part of costa with a 

 white line between it and postmedial line and silvery blue suffusion 

 on its outer edge ; an indistinct crenulate brown subterminal line 

 defined by fuscous suffusion ; a series of black points just before 

 termen. Hindwing black-brown with large orange patch on apical 

 half of costa, on termen extending to vein 5, the rest of terminal area 

 reddish brown with waved line before termen. Under side of fore- 

 wing with broad orange band from below middle of costa to tornus,- 

 the costa and apex irrorated with white ; hindwing yellowish with a 

 purplish tinge and thickly irrorated with black and white, two dark 

 medial lines, the inner curved, the outer sinuous and waved, a 

 yellowish waved subterminal line incurved below costa, a series of 

 black points before termen. 



Ab. 1. Porewing red-brown ; the markings very indistinct ; a 

 somewhat oblique white medial band expanding towards costa and 

 with the narrow dark reniform centred with white on it. 



Hah. Delagoa Bay (Mrs. Monteiro) ; Natal. Ex;p. 70 mill. Type 

 in B.M. 



<16) Ophiusa mobmoides, Wlk. xiv. 1393 (1858). 



Achcea mania, Peld. Eeis. Nov. pi. 116, f. 16 (1874). 

 Hab. West Africa, Old Calabar; Natal, Durban (Gooch, 

 Leigh). Exp. 64-74 mill. 



(17) Ophiusa algiea, Linn. Syst. Nat. i. p. 836 (1766). 



,, properans, Wlk. xiv. 1426 (1858). 

 Hab. Europe ; West Africa, Sierra Leone, Niger, Congo ; 

 British East Africa ; Natal, Victoria District (Gooch), Durban 

 (Leigh); Cape Colony (Dr. Smith), Grahamstown (Tuck); 

 Mauritius ; Aden ; Japan ; China ; India ; Ceylon ; Burma. 

 Exp. 42-46 mill. 



(18) Ophiusa angularis, Boisd. Faune. Ent. Madag. Lep. p. 103, 



pi. 13, f. 2 (1833). 

 Hab. British East Africa, Wadelai, Voi ; Natal (Gooch) ; 

 Madagascar ; Mauritius. Exp. 40 mill. 



