The Moths of South Africa. 401 



(4) Callyna cupeicolor, n. sp. 



(? . Head and thorax fuscous black ; pectus white mixed with 

 grey ; legs blackish with pale rings on the tarsal joints ; abdomen 

 white suffused with blackish. Forewing cupreous red suffused with 

 purple except on inner margin and terminal area, the costal area 

 blackish ; a very elongate claviform stigma with blackish outline ; 

 the orbicular and reniform indistinct with greyish annuli defined by 

 black, the latter with some short dark streaks in the interspaces 

 beyond it. Hindwing white, the veins, costal and terminal areas 

 tinged with fuscous ; the under side with discoidal point. 



Hab. Mashonaland, Salisbury (Marshall). Exp. 34 mill. Type 

 in B.M. 



Genus BANIAN A. 



Type. 



Baniana, Wlk. xv. 1843 (1858) significayis. 



Tephrias, "Wllgrn. Wien. Ent. Mon. iv. p. 170 



(1860) plumipes. 



Baxagha, "Wlk. xxxiii. 1002 (3865) plumipes. 



Sect. I. Antennse of male bipectinate. 



A. {Tephrias) Mid tibiae of male and first joint of tarsi fringed with long hair on 

 inner side ; hind tibiae tufted with long hair. 



(1) Baniana plumipes, Wllgrn. Wien. Ent. Mon. iv. p. 170 (1860). 

 Baxagha serpentina, Wlk. xxxiii. 1002 (1865). 



Hah. Natal, Victoria District (Gooch) ; Cape Colony, Caffraria. 

 Exp. 36 mill. 



B. Mid tibise of male, but not the tarsal joints, fringed with very long hair 

 (hind legs wanting). 



(2) Baniana hamipeba, n. sp. 



<y . Head and thorax brown mixed with grey, the scales tipped 

 with grey ; the fringe of hair on mid tibiae black and brown ; abdo- 

 men grey-brown. Forewing grey thickly irrorated with brown ; an 

 antemedial white-edged black band from cell to inner margin with 

 its outer edge hooked ; a small white-edged black spot in cell ; the 

 terminal area suffused with black most deeply towards the white 

 line on its inner edge which is slightly sinuous from costa to vein 4, 

 then retracted to upper angle of cell, then nearly erect ; a terminal 

 lunulate line. Hindwing fuscous brown. 



$ . Bather darker. 



