MIONIDES. POLIOBEXA. 617 



3495. Mionides liclienea. 



Mionides lichenea, Hmpsn. Ann. S. Afr. Mus. ii. p. 281 (1902). 



S . Head and thorax white slightly tinged with olive and mixed 

 with black ; abdomen whitish dorsally suffused with brown. Pore 

 wing white faintly tinged with olive and thickly irrorated with 

 black ; subbasal line ill-defined, black, from costa to submedian 

 fold ; antemedial line ill-defined, white, irregularly waved and 

 almost erect ; orbicular small, round, with white centre defined by 

 diffused black ; reniform a very small whitish lunule defined by 

 black ; postmedial line black defined by white on outer side, bent 

 outwards below costa, then minutely waved, excurved to vein 4, 

 then obliquely incurved to inner margin near antemedial line, 



Fig. 161. — Mionides liclienea, d. t- 



some white points beyond it on costa; subterminalline represented 

 by some very ill-defined black marks excurved below vein 7 and 

 at middle ; cilia white mixed with black and with a series of 

 white points at base. Hind wing white suffused and irrorated 

 with fuscous bown ; cilia white with a slight dark line near base ; 

 the underside whitish tinged with brown and slightly irrorated with 

 black, a large discoidal spot and indistinct diffused postmedial line. 

 Hah. jN'atal, Estcourt (Hutchinson), 1 c? type ; C. Colony, 

 Kokstad (Mrs. Prhujle), 1 6 • E.rp. 28-30 millim. 



Genus POLIOBRYA, nov. 



Type, P. pat'ula. 



Proboscis absent; palpi slender, porrect, to just; beyond frons which is 

 smooth ; eyes large, rounded ; antennse of male ciliated ; build slender ; head 

 and thorax clothed chiefly with rather rough scales and without crests ; tibise 

 fringed with liair on outer side ; abdomen elongate, slender, with small crest 

 at base and large crests on three following segments. Fore wing rather 

 elongate, the termen obliquely curved ; veins o and 5 from near angle of cell ; 

 fi from upper angle ; 9 from 10 anastomosing with 8 to form the areole ; 

 11 from cell. Hind wing with veins 3, 4 from angle of cell; 5 obsolescent 

 from just below middle of discocellulars ; 6, 7 shortly stalked ; 8 anastomosing 

 with the cell near base only. 



*3496. Poliohrya patula. 



BryopMla loatida, Piing. Iris, six. p. 217, pi. 8. f. 14 (1906). 



J . Head and thorax clothed with grey, brown, and black 

 scales; abdomen grey tinged with brown and mixed with fuscous, 

 the dorsal crests blackish. Fore wing whitish tinged with ochreous 



