The Moths of South Africa. 359 



(3) PoLYDESMA iNANGULATA, Guen. Noct. iii. p. 210 (1852) ; Moore, 



Lep. Ceyl. iii. pi. 156, f. 6, 6a. 

 Bcmigia congressa, Wlk. xiv. 1510 (1858). 

 Ophisma statina, Mosehl. Verb. Zool. bot. Ges. Wien. xxxiii. 



p. 305, pi. xvi., f. 19 (1883). 

 Hab. West Africa, Niger Eiver; Ashanti; Natal (Gueinzius, 



Goocb, Burrows) ; China ; Formosa ; India, Ceylon, and Burma ; 



Andamans ; Australia. Exp. 48-54 mill. 



Sect. III. Fore tibise of male greatly dilated and with ridges of scales 

 enclosing a large hollow above. 



(4) PoLYDESMA GLOBULiPES, Wlk. xxxiii. 885 (1865). 

 Brujas incivilis, Wlk. xxxiii. 937 (1865). 



Hab. West Africa, Sierra Leone ; Upper Egypt, Wbite Nile ; 

 Abyssinia ; German Central Africa, Tanganyika ; Ovampo Land 



(Eriksson). Exp. 4:4^ mill. 



Sect. III. (Pandesma). Pectus and fore tibise of male with shorter hair; 

 under side of wings without long hair. 



A. Forewing with waved black streak below the cell basilinea. 



B. Forewing without black streak below the cell. 



a. Forevnng tinged with green marmorifera. 



h. Forewing not tinged with green. 



a^ Hindwing with diffused brownish terminal band . . . . quenavadi. 



6'. Hindwing with broad black terminal band from costa to 



vein 2 ampliix. 



(5) PoLYDESMA BASILINEA, n. Sp. 



Head and tborax reddisb brown slightly mixed with black ; pectus 

 and legs pale, the latter banded with black; abdomen brown, the 

 ventral surface pale. Forewing pale suffused with red-brown and 

 with a slight olive tinge ; a waved black streak below the cell 

 becoming straight and oblique below vein 2 ; a series of brown striae 

 on costa ; indistinct double waved subbasal and antemedial lines ; 

 orbicular and reniform with fine black outlines, large rounded and 

 extending to below cell ; the veins beyond the cell streaked with 

 black ; an indistinct double minutely dentate postmedial line, bent 

 outwards below costa, excurved to vein 4, then oblique ; an indis- 

 tinct waved subterminal line ; a terminal series of small black 

 lunules. Hindwing ochreous white, irrorated and tinged with 

 brown and the veins towards termen streaked with brown. Under 

 side whitish ; both wings with slight discoidal spot and indistinct 



