358 Annals of the South African Museum. 



white patch in and below cell ; both wings with white points on the 

 cilia. 



Hah. Natal, Durban (Leigh). Exp. 36 mill. Type in B.M. 



AUCTOBUM. 



Anoi^hia illegitima, Wllgrn. GEfv. K. Vet. 



Akad. Forh. 1875, p. 82 Transvaal. 



Gatephia personata, Wlk. xxxiii. 916 



(1867). Type lost South Africa. 



Genus POLYDESMA. 



Type. 

 Polydesma, Boisd. Faun. Ent. Madag. Lep. 



p. 100 (1833) collutrix. 



^ncem, Wlk. xiii. 1089 (1857) inangulata. 



Pandesma, Guen. Noct. ii. p. 438 (1833) ... quenavadi. 



Sect. I. (Polydesma). Pectus of male clothed with long hair; fore tibi* 

 fringed with very long hair ; under side of forewing with some 

 long hair in cell, of hindwing with the basal area clothed with 

 long silky hair. 



A. Under side of hindwing of male with diffused fuscous postmedial 



band uinhricola. 



B. Under side of hindwing of male wholly ochreous otiosa. 



(1) Polydesma collutrix, Geyer. Zutr. 22. 443, ff. 885, 886 (1827). 



,, umbricola, Boisd. Faun. Ent. Madag. Lep. p. 108 



(1833). 



sagulata, Wllgrn. GEfv. Vet. Akad. Forh., 1875, p. 117. 



Hah. West Africa, Old Calabar, Niger; Upper Egypt, White 



Nile; British East Africa, Wadelai, Machakos; British Central 



Africa, Zomba; Mashonaland, SaHsbury (Marshall); Transvaal; 



Natal, Estcourt (Hutchinson) ; Madagascar ; Formosa ; India, 



Ceylon, and Burma ; Andamans ; Singapore. Exp. 50 mill. 



(2) Polydesma otiosa, Guen. Noct. ii. p. 442 (1852). 



,, determinata, Wllgrn. Wien. Ent. Mon. vii. p. 149 



(1863). 



Hah. Damaraland, Kuisip Eiver ; India. Exp. 44 mill. 



Sect. II. [Ericeia). Pectus, femora, and tibife of male clothed with 

 long hair, mid tibise with tuft of hair and large scales contained 

 in a fold, hind tarsi fringed with long hair above. 



