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abdomen pale, dorsally suffused with fuscous brown. Forewing pale 

 brown ; a white-edged black-brown patch running obliquely from 

 upper angle of cell to inner margin near base and to a sharp point 

 in submedian fold, then retracted with a curve to middle of inner 

 margin ; a white-edged dark brown triangular apical patch ending in 

 a point on submedian fold. Hindwing brown with oblique whitish 

 postmedial line from costa to vein 2. Under side pale with the 

 patch of forewing and a broad terminal band to both wings brown. 

 Hab. Delagoa Bay (Mrs. Monteiro). Ex2:i. 40 mill. Type in B.M. 



Genus BAEEIA. 



Type. 

 Bareia, Wlk. xv. 1840 (1858) incidens. 



Bareia incidens Wlk, xv. 1840 (1858). 



Hab. West Africa, Lagos, Congo; British East Africa, Mu- 

 thambi ; Natal, Durban (Gueinzius, Bowker, Leigh) ; Cape 

 Colony, Transkei (Miss F. Barrett). Exj). 40-50 mill. 



Genus THEEMESIA. 



Type. 

 Thermesia, Hiibn. Verz. p. 270 (1827) ... gemmatalis. 



Tatorinia, Butl. A.M.N. H. (4) xvi. p. 408 



(1875) burroiosi. 



Sect. I. Antennse of male bipectinate. 



A. Fore coxse and femora and mid femora and tibise of male clothed with long 

 hair, the hind tibiae and first joint of tarsi fringed on both sides with long 

 hair, and the next two joints on outer side. 



(1) Thermesia atriplaga, Wlk. xv. 1795 (1858). 



Toxocampa remota, Wllgrn. Wien. Ent. Mon. iv. p. 174 (1860). 

 Athyrma angtdiplaga, Wlk. xxxiii. 965 (1865). 

 Hab. Natal, Karkloof (Marshall), Durban (Barker, Leigh). 

 Ex2}. 42-46 mill. 



B. {Tatorinia). Legs of male normal ; palpi of female with the second joint long 

 and fringed with long hair above. 



(2) Thermesia burrowsi, Butl. A.M.N. H. (4) xvi. p. 408 (1875). 

 Hab. Natal, Durban (Burrows, Leigh). Exj). 46 mill. 



Sect. II. Antennse of male ciliated. 

 A. Fore and mid femora of male with thick fringes of flocculent hair. 



