Annals of the Transvaal Museum 
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B. ANTENNAE OF FEMALE SIMPLE. 
Antheua Tricolor. 
(PL I, fig. 1 7; PI. Ill, figs. 10-15.) 
Antheua tricolor Wlk. Cat . 111. p. 638 (1855). 
Feld. Reise. Nov. iv. PI. XCIV, fig. 7 (1874). 
(var.) Dist. Ins. Transv. iv. p. 92, PI. VIII, fig. 13. 
A. varia Wlk. Cat. 111. p. 766 (1855). 
Dist. Ins. Transv. iv. p. 92. 
I do not think that there is any doubt about A. varia being the same as 
A. tricolor, the latter being a rather old and bleached specimen or perhaps 
a lighter coloured variety. The description of A . varia corresponds best with 
a fresh specimen. The figure given by Distant is also of a bleached specimen. 
A fresh specimen has the fore wing brighter yellow and the hind wing much 
darker, in such a case the black scaling in the fore wing (not shown in the figure) 
is more prominent. These intense black scales are found below the lower median, 
usually only between veins 2 and 3, but sometimes also before 2 and beyond 3; 
several of my specimens have a postmedial series of black spots from above 
vein 2 or 3, erect to vein 6, then a few scales obliquely towards apex. These 
spots are often reduced to a few scales only, and are often altogether missing in 
perfectly fresh specimens. The more intense yellow the fore wings are, the more 
black there is on the fore wing. Only the $ appears to a have a black patch on 
the abdomen on upper side at the last two segments. 
This species seems to be well distributed over South Africa. I have it from : 
Sarnia, Durban, Umkomaas (Natal) ; Nkwaleni (Zululand) ; Emangeni, 
Umvuma (S. Rhodesia), and it is also recorded from Waterval onder (Trans- 
vaal). Caught in July, Oct., Jan., Dec. 
Antheua Aurifodinae. 
(PI. Ill, figs. 27-30.) 
Rigema aurifodinae Dist. Entom. xxxv. p. 213 (1902). 
Dist. Ins. Transv. iv. p. 91, PL VIII, fig. 7. 
I see very little reason for placing this species in the genus Rigema, the 
similarity in wing pattern being the only one, and even this character is not 
very pronounced. The shape of the fore wing is, however, that of a typical 
Antheua and the bar between the upper median and vein 8 of hind wing, which 
is well developed in Rigema, is absent in aurifodinae. Antennae, palpi and 
process of fore tibia are as in Antheua, though the stalk of 6, 7 in hind wing is 
a little longer. The hairs on the thorax are rather long and shaggy and not short 
as in Antheua, and there is a tendency to crestforming as in Rigema. I have 
this fine species from Beynspoort, Tweefontein (Transv.); Durban, Karkloof 
(Natal); Umvuma (S. Rhodesia); in Dec., Jan. 
Antheua Encausta. 
(PL III, figs. 16-18.) 
Dinara encausta Hmpsn. A.M.N.H. 8. v. p. 476 (1910). 
I fail to see why this species has been placed in the genus Dinara, a genus 
which Hampson in his Moths of India, vol. 1. gives as a synonym of Anticyra. 
The differences between Antheua and that genus given on p. 144 are that the 
antennae are fasciculated and not bipectinated to apex, that vein 6 is 
