4^6 Annals of the South AfricaH Museum. 



Hah. Congo ; Abyssinia ; British East Africa, Tana Eiver ; 

 N'Gamiland; Matabeleland (Oates). -Kj?p. 24 mill. 



(4) Westekmannia kuficeps, n. sp. 



^ . Head rufous ; thorax pure white ; legs tinged with yellow ; 

 abdomen brownish white, the anal tuft and extremity tinged with 

 ochreous. Forewing white ; the costal area suffused with pale olive- 

 green ; an olive-green band from discal fold in end of cell to inner 

 margin, and a patch beyond the cell before the indistinct postmedial 

 line formed of dark points, excurved below costa, oblique to vein 4, 

 then incurved ; the terminal area thickly irrorated with rufous and 

 with diffused rufous patches at middle and above inner margin ; the 

 extreme apex yellowish. Hindwing yellowish white tinged with 

 brown towards termen. 



Hah. Natal, Durban (Leigh). Exp. 24 mill. Type in B.M. 



(27a) Ophiusa violascens, n. sp. 



5 . Head, tegulse, and patagia lilacine grey irrorated with a few 

 brown scales ; abdomen pale brownish, the ventral surface white 

 irrorated with dark brown. Forewing lilacine grey irrorated with 

 black and suffused with rufous towards the subterminal line ; an 

 oblique waved pale rufous antemedial line defined by white on outer 

 side ; orbicular and reniform defined by rufous, the former a minute 

 annulus, the latter constricted at middle ; the postmedial line rufous 

 defined by white on inner side, excurved below costa and at middle, 

 angled inwards in discal and submedian folds; subterminal line 

 whitish defined by diffused dark rufous on inner side and brownish 

 on outer, incurved below costa, angled outwards at vein 7, then 

 incurved and ending at tornus ; the terminal area greyer with 

 highly crenulate rufous terminal line ; cilia blackish except at apex 

 and tornus. Hindwing ochreous brown the terminal half suffused 

 with fuscous ; cilia white, brown at middle ; the under side white 

 irrorated with brown, the terminal half suffused with brown. 

 Hah. Natal, Durban (Leigh). Exp. 46 mill. Type in B.M. 



