366 Annals of the South African Museum. 



(3) Thekmesia andersoni, Feld. Eeis. Nov. pi. 115, f. 13 (1874). 

 Hab. Natal, Victoria District (Gooch) ; Cape Colony, Annshaw 



(Miss F. Barrett), Knysna (Trimen). Exp. 42 mill. 



B. Fore and mid femora of male without fringes of flocculent hair. 



a. Forewing with the postmedial line arising from apex . . . . loxogramvia. 



b. Forewing with the postmedial line arising from before apex, 

 a'. Forewing with the postmedial line acutely angled out- 

 wards below apex irrorata. 



b\ Forewing with the postmedial line straight, oblique. 



a^. Forewing with curved antemedial line zonaria. 



b^. Forewing double waved antemedial and dentate 



medial lines hansali. 



(4) Thermesia loxogramma n. sp. 



? . Brownish grey with a slight purple tinge and irrorated with 

 ■ black ; palpi black at sides ; fore and mid tibiae and tarsi black. 

 Forewing with waved fuscous antemedial line followed by a black 

 point in the cell ; a white discoidal point ; a medial fuscous line 

 oblique from eosta to discocellulars, then almost obsolete and 

 incurved ; an obliquely sinuous fuscous line from costa beyond 

 middle to the straight oblique rufous postmedial line arising from 

 apex ; an irregular fuscous subterminal line, angled slightly outwards 

 at vein 7, inwards in discal fold, outwards almost to termen at vein 4, 

 inwards to postmedial line in submedian fold, then outwards to 

 termen ; a series of black points just before termen. Hindwing with 

 oblique rufous medial line; an indistinct fuscous highly sinuous sub- 

 terminal line and series of black points before termen ; the under 

 side yellowish white except towards costa and termen and with dark 

 irroration. 



Hab. Mashonaland, Umtali (Marshall) ; Natal, Durban (Leigh). 

 ExjJ. 38 mill. Type in B.M. 



(5) Thermesia irrorata, Fabr. Spec. Ins. ii. p. 506 (1781). 

 Noctua sordida, Fabr. Ent. Syst. iii. 2, p. 50 (1794). 

 Thermesia rubricans, Boisd. Faun. Ent. Madag. Lep. p. 106, 



pi. 16, f. 1 (1833). 

 Hab. West Africa, Sierra Leone, Congo ; Soudan, White Nile ; 

 Abyssinia ; British Central Africa, Zomba ; Natal, Durban 

 (Leigh) ; Cape Colony (Sir A. Smith) ; Madagascar ; Japan ; 

 India ; Ceylon and Burma ; Borneo ; Java ; North Guinea ; 

 Pacific groups. Exjy. 40-46 mill. 



(6) Thermesia zonaria, Dist. A.M.N.H. (7) i. p. 229 (1898). 

 Hab. Transvaal, Pretoria (Distant). Exp. 36 mill. 



