344 Annals of the South African Museum. 



AUCTOBUM. 



Ophisma lunulifera, Wlk. xv. 956 (1865). 



Type lost South Africa. 



Ophisma exuleata, Moschl. Verb. Zool. 



bot. Ges. Wien. xxxiii. p. 306, pi. xvi. 



f. 21 (1888) Cape Colony. 



Sub-Family MOMIN^. 



Genus TEISULOIDES. 



Type. 

 Tnsuloides, Butl. A.M.N. H. (5) vii. p. 36 (1881) sericea. 



Teisuloides lutbscens, Herr.-Scbaff. Aussereur. Schmett. 



f. 127 (1850). 

 Hab. Cape Colony. Exp. 50 mill. 



Sub-Family PLUSIAN^. 



A. Forewing with tufts of raised scales on edges of stigmata . . . . Abrostola. 



B. Forewing without tufts of raised scales Plusia. 



Genus ABEOSTOLA. 



Type. 

 Abrostola, Ochs. Scbmett. Eur. iv. p. 88 (1816) triplasia. 



A. Forewing ochreous brown, the medial costal area suffused with 



black brevipennis. 



B. Forewing grey-brown, the medial area without black suffusion triopiH. 



(1) Abrostola brevipennis, Wlk. xv. 1734 (1858). 



Hab. Natal (Gueinzius), Victoria District (Goocb). Exp. 

 36 mill. 



(2) Abrostola triopis, n sp. 



? . Grey-brown. Forewing slightly suffused with fuscous ; a 

 fine waved black antemedial line with rufous line on its inner side ; 

 the orbicular, reniform, and claviform, large, rounded with fine black 

 outline and fuscous centre ; a slightly sinuous fine black postmedial 

 line with rufous line beyond it ; a subterminal dentate fuscous line 



