362 Annals of the Sottth African Museum. 



subterminal line indistinct, connected with apex by short streaks 

 and shghtly angled inwards in submedian fold ; a fine waved black 

 terminal line. Hindwing white, the costal area and termen more or 

 less strongly tinged with fuscous ; in female nearly the whole wing 

 sometimes suffused with fuscous. 



Hab. Mashonaland, Salisbury (Marshall). Exp. 24 mill. Type 

 in B.M. 



Genus PEOCONIS, nov. 



Proboscis fully developed ; palpi obliquely upturned, the second 

 joint moderately scaled, the third long, naked; frons with pointed 

 conical prominence ; antennae of male ciliated ; tibige with the spurs 

 moderate and with tufts of spinous hair on outer side ; abdomen 

 smoothly scaled with scale-crest on basal segment. Forewing with 

 vein 3 from before angle of cell, 5 from just above angle ; 6 from 

 upper angle ; 9 from 10 anastomosing with 8 to form the areole. 

 Hindwing with veins 3, 4 from angle of cell ; 5 from near angle ; 

 6, 7 from upper angle. 



Peoconis abrostoloides, n. sp. 



3 . Head and thorax fuscous, the scales pencilled with grey ; 

 pectus and legs whitish, the tarsi banded with fuscous ; abdomen 

 white, dorsally tinged with fuscous leaving whitish segmental lines. 

 Forewing grey, suffused and irrorated with fuscous brown ; a fine 

 curved black subbasal line from costa to vein 1 connected by a streak 

 in submedian fold with the nearly straight antemedial line ; reniform 

 large round and indistinctly outlined with black ; the postmedial 

 line indistinct, excurved from costa to vein 3, then retracted to below 

 end of cell ; an indistinct irregularly waved grey subterminal line ; 

 a series of black striae just before termen and a erenulate terminal 

 line. Hindwing semihyaline, white, with some fuscous at apex and 

 a erenulate terminal line with a series of points just before it. 



Hab. Cape Colony, Annshaw (Miss F. Barrett). Ex2J. 32 mill. 

 Type in B.M. 



Genus CALBSIA. 



Type. 

 Calesia, Guen. Noct. iii. p. 257 (1852) ... dasyptera. 

 Asymbata, Gerst. von der Decken's Eeisen 



in Ost. Africa iii. p. 377 (1873) roseiventris. 



A. Abdomen crimson ; forewing with white spots roseiventris. 



B. Abdomen dark ; forewing without white spots phcsosoma. 



