342 Annals of the South African Museum. 



Sect. 11. Mid tibiae of male not dilated. 



A. Fore femora of male dilated with fringe of long hair and large scales. 



a. [Bermaleipa) Hindwing of male with fringes of long hair on inner margin 

 on upper side. 



(22) Ophiusa ignicans, n. sp. 



^ . Head and thorax red-brown irrorated with white ; pectus and 

 mid and hind femora and tibiae with scarlet hair ; abdomen fuscous 

 brown, the anal tuft and ventral surface fiery red. Fore wing red- 

 brown with a purplish tinge and irrorated with black and with fine 

 pale striae ; a pale oblique subbasal line from costa to submedian 

 fold ; a pale rufous-edged very oblique line from costa before middle 

 to middle of inner margin ; reniform defined by black ; incurved 

 postmedial and subterminal lines, the latter with black points on its 

 outer edge. Hindwing fiery red ; the inner area brown extending 

 into the cell and as a subterminal band to vein 5. Under side fiery 

 red, forewing with a dark discoidal lunule, the apical area irrorated 

 with black ; hindwing irrorated with black. 



5 . Hindwing yellow tinged with scarlet towards termen. 

 Hab. West Africa, Accra (Sir G. Carter), Gaboon (Dobree) ; Natal 

 (Miller). Ex23. 58-64 mill. Type in B.M. 



b. Under side of hindwing of male with the basal and inner areas clothed 

 with rough androconia, the upper side with rough hair. 

 a^ Forewing pale yellow-green with brown terminal band . . .. tirrhaca. 



b\ Forewing blue-grey dianaris. 



c^ Forewing pale brownish umbrilinea. 



(23) Ophiusa tikkhaca, Cram. Pap. Exot. ii. pi. 172 E. (1779). 

 Ophiodes hottentota, Guen. Noct. iii. p. 229 (1852). 



Hab. Europe ; Sokotra ; Mashonaland, Salisbury (Marshall) ; 

 Cape Colony ; China ; India. Ex2). 64-80 mill. 



(24) Ophiusa dianaris, Guen. Noct. iii. p. 232 (1852). 



Pandesma tempica, Moschl. Verb. Zool. hot. Ges. Wien. xxxiii. 



p. 300, pi. xvi. f. 16 (1883). 

 Hab. Abyssinia ; Sokotra ; Natal, Estcourt (Hutchinson) ; 



ap9 Colony, Knysna. Exp. 60 mill. 



(25) Ophius umbeilinea, n. sp. 



cT . Head and thorax pale red-brown ; the hair on pectus and 

 legs pale yellow ; abdomen pale yellow. Forewing pale brownish 



