396 Annals of the South African Museum. 



postmedial line ; forewing with black spot below costa towards apex ; 

 hindwing with black discoidal spot. 



Hah. British East Africa, Kikuyu (Crawshay) ; Natal, Durban 

 (Barker). Exp. 36 mill. 



Genus XANTHOPTEEA. 



Type. 

 Xanthoptera, Guen. Noct. ii. p. 240 (1852) ... botyoides. 



A. Forewing with the terminal area darker than the ground colour. 



a. Forewing yellow with the terminal area pink sacraria. 



b. Forewing ochreous with the terminal area purplish grey . . griseocinda. 



c. Forewing whitish with the terminal area blackish . . . . porphyrea. 



B. Forewing with the terminal area not darker than the ground colour. 



a. Hindwing with the ground colour not orange. 



ct}. Forewing olive-green with white ante- and post-medial 



bands olivula. 



6'. Forewing blackish with more or less developed white 



ante- and post-medial bands excisa. 



c'. Forewing blackish with leaden-grey bands naviacensis. 



d\ Forewing blackish with leaden-grey dentate lines . . . . carcaroda. 

 eK Forewing without white or leaden bands. 



a^. Forewing with white streak above median nervure 



and vein 5 abunda. 



b^. Forewing without white streak above median nervure and vein 5. 

 a'. Forewing with the ground colour greyish white . . grandirena. 

 b'. Forewing with the ground colour yellowish. 



a*. Forewing with distinct black spot at lower angle of cell. 

 a^. Forewing with black spot in middle of cell tripunda. 

 65. Forewing without black spot in middle of 



cell unipunzta. 



b^. Forewing without distinct black spot at lower 



angle of cell frausa. 



b. Hindwing with the ground colour orange. 



a'. Forewing with the line bounding the brown area highly 

 angled at lower angle of cell and with dark suffusion 

 before it genuflexa. 



&'. Forewing with the line bounding the brown area slightly 

 angled at lower angle of cell and without dark suffusion 

 before it albifascia. 



(1) Xanthopteea saceaeia, Peld. Eeis. Nov. pi. 108, f. 17 (1874). 

 Hab. Natal, Karkloof (Marshall), Estcourt (Hutchinson) ; Cape 



Colony, Transkei, Annshaw (Miss F. Barrett). Ex^). 30 mill. 



(2) Xanthopteea geiseocincta, n. sp. ' 



5 . Ochreous tinged with rufous ; tegulae and thorax with dorsal 

 grey and fuscous stripe. Forewing with indistinct sinuous almost 



