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Hind wing with a few hair-brown scales as costa ; a fuscous terminal line, 
interrupted at the veins; a black patch at tornus and an oblique faint fuscous 
shading above it; cilia pure white. 
Under side : costa of fore wing thickly irrorated with fuscous, except towards 
apex, where there are 4 white patches; nearly the whole area irrorated with 
hair-brown ; only the terminal line present ; hind wing with a hair-brown mark 
from costa to fork of veins 6, 7 ; otherwise as on upper side. 
$. Like but irroration more black; band between sub-basal and ante^ 
medial lines much darker and a dark shading beyond postmedial line ; a distinct 
fuscous medial line, angled outwards below upper median and lower angle; 
a black patch of scales at discocellulars between 4 and 5 ; a white sub-terminal 
shading, angled outwards at the veins; a white band against the terminal black 
line; cilia checkered with fuscous and with a distinct basal line; hind wing 
thickly irrorated with hair-brown except at basal area; cilia checkered with 
fuscous scales. 
Under side : fore wing uniform fuscous ; black spot indicated ; hind wing with 
a medial faint fuscous band and with a broad postmedial band parallel to 
termen; cilia as on upper side. 
Exp. <$, 41-39 mm.; $, 44 mm. 
Hab. $ type from New Hanover, 8. ’13 (Hardenberg) ; cotypes, Umkomaas, 
14. 1. ’14 (Janse); Nelspruit, 10. ’17 (Dr Breyer); $ type from Bulwer (near 
Durban), 30. 5. ’14 (bred by E. E. Platt). 
Another $ from Emangeni (S. Rhodesia), 19. 1. T8 (Janse) and a $ from 
Rietvlei (Natal), 1. T8. 
The two <$ co types have vein 6 of fore wing stalked with 7, 8, 9. 
Genus ANTHEUA. 
(PI. I, figs. 17-20; PI. Ill, figs. 10-30.) 
Antheua Wlk. Cat. in. pp. 687, 766 (1855). Type tricolor^. 
Hmpsn. Moths of India, 1. p. 145. 
Dist. Ins. Transv. iv. p. 91. 
Sirenopyga Wllgrn. Ofv. Vet. Akad. Fork. xv. p. 210 (1858). 
Description from tricolor. 
cJ, Proboscis present, moderate; palpi somewhat upturned, short, just 
reaching frons, densely covered at front and sides with long hairs, mixed with 
some scales; first and second joint about equal in length; third joint very small, 
about |-rd of second joint; eyes large, rounded and naked; antennae of 
bipectinated for frds of shaft, branches shortening rather suddenly, terminal 
third becoming serrate; branches about two times shaft, each branch has 
fasciculated cilia at its end and is ciliated on the anterior side ; in $ the antennae 
are simple and ciliated on both sides (in some species, as bicolor and simplex, 
the branches are longer, about three times shaft, while in bicolor the branches 
become gradually shorter towards tip) ; a tuft of long hairs on front of first joint 
of shaft; fore tibia with a process as long as, or slightly longer than, tibia; 
process in tricolor rather broad and pointed, in all species more or less hollow 
above on inner side, then becoming flattened and often twisted, the flat side 
being against the tibia, a row of bristles on edge of keel-shaped part as shown 
in fig. of aurifodinae ; process thickly covered with hairs and some scales, as 
1 This is the type species according to Hampson, but Walker describes the species 
simplex first, so unless Walker has somewhere especially stated that tricolor is the 
type, I think simplex should be considered the type of the genus. 
