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Stauropus Mediata. 
(PI. V, fig. 4; Pl. VI, figs. 1-7.) 
Ochrostigma mediata Wlk. Cat. xxxn. p. 412 (1865). 
Kirby. Cat. 1. p. 603. 
This species does certainly not come in Ochrostigma as the has the 
antennae not pectinated till the tip and they are pectinated in the $ also and 
not serrate, while the hind tibiae have only two spurs and not four; the fore 
wing has also no areole as given for Ochrostigma. 
I have this species from Durban only and never met with it in any other 
locality. In Jan., Febr., March, Oct., Nov. 
Larva feeds on Ekehergia meyeri Presl., and Combretum gulinzii Sond. 
(E. E. Platt). 
Genus PHALERA. 
(PI. V, figs. 5, 6; PI. VI, figs. 8-14.) 
Phalera Hiibn. Verz. bek. Schmett. p 147 (1822). 
Dist. Ins. Transv. iv. p. 89. 
Hmpsn. Moths of India, 1. p. 133. 
Spuler. Schmett. Eur. 1. p. 10 1. 
Type bucephala. Description from imitata. 
cj, $. Proboscis short and weak; palpi short, just reaching frons, obliquely 
upturned; first joint short, about frd of palpus, slightly curved; second joint 
longer than first, slightly curved; third joint short, about half of second joint, 
narrow ; all joints covered with long hairs, scale-like hairs and scales in front 
and with some hairs above; eyes large, round and naked; antennae short, 
less than half of costa, bipectinate in $ till a little beyond middle (in 
lydenburgi and other species fasciculated or simple), in $ also bipectinate as in 
cJ, but pectinations carried further towards tip (in some species simple) (in 
the type of the genus which looks very much like imitata the joints of the 
antennae are globular and have on each joint a hair-brush at each side) ; first 
joint globular and with a hair- tuft in front; branches two times shaft and 
densely ciliated; fore tibia covered with dense hairs, especially on inner side; 
process rather broad and short, j ust reaching end of tibia, on upper side some- 
what open where it is attached to the tibia, then flattened and twisted, ending 
in a blunt rounded point; mid tibia with two spurs; hind tibia with four spurs; 
spurs stout ending in a curved point, which has two rows of teeth, less con- 
spicuous than in Rigema, and densely covered with hairs; femurs of all legs 
with long hairs on the outer side; tibiae, especially the hind tibia, with long 
hairs on the outer side; tarsi with spines on inner side and well covered with 
appressed hairs. Fore wing sub-triangular, rather broad; costa straight (well 
curved in $), curved towards apex; apex rounded; termen somewhat oblique, 
straight, slightly sinuate; tornus rounded; inner margin slightly curved; 1 b 
indistinctly forked at base; 2 from lower median at beyond frd; 3 from fth 
2-4; 4 from lower angle; 5 rather weak, from above middle of discocellulars, 
which are erect and nearly straight ; a faint forked veinlet in cell ; 6 from beyond 
middle of areole, which is narrow and long; 7, 8, 9, 10 stalked and from end of 
areole; 7 from a little beyond end of areole; 9 from 8 at frd the distance from 
end of areole to apex; 10 from stalk at fth that distance; 11 from upper median 
at beyond frd; 12 parallel to costa. (In lydenburgi the venation of 6, 7 is 
somewhat different, in fact I expect some variations within the species as 
