354 Annals of the South African Museum. 



Tavia instruens, Wlk. xiv. 1275 (1858). 



Hah. West Africa, Congo ; Natal, Mooi Eiver, Durban (Innes) ; 



Cape Colony, Transkei (Miss F. Barrett) ; Madagascar. Exjp. 



56-60 mill. 



Genus SEKEODES. 



Type. 



Serrodes, Guen. Noct. iii. p. 251 (1852) ... ... inara. 



Sereodes inara, Cram. Pap. Exot. iii. p. 239 E. (1779). 



Phoberia horana, Feld. Eeis. Nov. pi. 116, f. 3 (1874). 



Hah. West Africa, Sierra Leone, Congo ; British East Africa, 

 Neugia ; Natal, Estcourt (Hutchinson) ; Cape Colony, Transkei 

 (Miss F. Barrett) ; India, Ceylon, and Burma ; Borneo ; Java ; 

 Australia. Exp. 52-74 mill. 



Genus FACIDIA. 



Type. 



Facidia, Wlk. xxxiii. 951 (1865) nigrofusca. 



Facidia nigrofusca, Wlk. xxxiii. 952 (1865). 

 Hah. Natal (Gueinzius). Exp. 52 mill. 



Genus SPHINGOMOEPHA. 



Type. 



Sphingomorpha, Guen. Noct. iii. p. 220 (1852) chlorea. 



A. Abdomen with dorsal series of white patches chlorea. 



B. Abdonxen without dorsal series of white patches . . .... . . viarshalli. 



(1) Sphingomorpha chlorea, Cram. Pap. Exot. ii. pi. 104, C. (1779). 



,, monteironis, Butl. A.M.N. H. (4) xvi. p. 406 



(1875). 

 Hah. West Africa, Sierra Leone, North-west Nigeria, Congo, 

 Angola ; Soudan, White Nile ; Erithrea, Massowah ; Abyssinia; 

 British East Africa, Wadelai, Masailand, Neugia, Machakos; 

 British Central Africa, Blantyre ; Mashonaland, Salisbury 

 (Marshall) ; Natal (Gooch) ; Cape Colony, Annshaw (Miss F. 

 Barrett) ; Aden ; India, Ceylon, and Burma. Exp. 60-84 mill. 



(2) Sphingomorpha maeshalli, n. sp. 



$ . Head and thorax clothed with black, brown, and ochreous 

 scales ; tegulae with some white scales towards extremity ; abdomen 



