Annals of the Transvaal Museum 
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Genus HOPLITIS. 
(Pl. VII, figs. 7-12.) 
Hoplitis Hiibn. Vevz. bek. Schmett. p. 147 (1816). 
Wlk. Cat. v. p. 990. 
Spuler. Schmett. Eur. 1. p. 93. 
Hybocampa Led. Verh. Zool.-Bot. Verein zu Wien, 11. 
Atrasana Wlk. Cat. vii. p. 1749 (1856). 
Type milhausevi. Description from dasychiroides. 
$. Proboscis very rudimentary; palpi short, just till frons, porrect, 
covered with dense hairs; first joint curved; second joint straight, nearly of 
same length as first joint; third joint minute, sub-globular; eyes naked, large, 
globular; frons with a tuft of hair; antennae about half length of costa, bi* 
pectinate for fth their length; first joint of shaft globular and with a tuft of 
hair in front; branches of $ about eight times shaft, of $ about three times 
shaft ; branches densely ciliated on outer side ; fore tibia with a straight process 
rounded at tip and a little longer than the tibia ; mid tibia with two moderate 
spurs; hind tibia with four spurs; spurs acuminate, point with two short 
ridges of teeth; all legs densely covered with rather long hairs; tarsi covered 
with hairs, scales and spines. 
Fore wing rather narrow; costa slightly concave, well rounded towards 
apex; outer margin very oblique, rounded; inner margin nearly straight; 
apex rounded ; tornus well rounded ; 1 b with a rather long fork ; 2 from beyond 
■frd lower median ; 3 from beyond f rd 2 to 4 ; 4 from lower angle ; 5 from middle 
of discocellulars, which are very oblique outwardly and somewhat curved 
between 4 and 5; 6 from stalk just beyond upper angle; 7 from 8, 9 from before 
middle of 7; 9 from 8 at middle; 10 from stalk of 7, 8, 9 from before 7; 11 from 
upper median at fth; 12 parallel to costa. Hind wing sub-triangular; costa 
gently arched ; termen very oblique, straight, somewhat lobed at 3 and 1 b ; 
inner margin nearly straight; apex and tornus somewhat rounded; 1 a long, 
straight ; 1 b somewhat curved ; 2 from fth lower median ; 3 from near, 4 from 
lower angle; 5 from middle of discocellulars, which are curved between 4 and 5, 
straight between 5 to 7; 6 and 7 on a stalk of nearly middle of 6; 8 slightly 
upcurved at base, then close to upper median with which it runs parallel till 
near upper angle, then to near apex. In the £ the fore wing is more broad and 
the termen more arched. 
Key to South African species: 
1 a. Shaft of antennae crimson 2 
b. Shaft of antennae brownish-grey ....... 3 
2 a. Fore wing brownish-grey; costa with whitish-grey band from trd of 
wing to near apex; postmedial line from just before 1 b and 
extended beyond vein 4 to the black fascia going to apex ; abdomen 
fuscous-black on basal third only, then grey . . phyllocampa 
b. Fore wing uniform grey; postmedial line from inner margin at |rd 
and running along it till frd, then parallel to tornus and termen 
as far as vein 4, not connected with the black fascia going to apex; 
abdomen dorsally fuscous-black for its whole length except the apex, 
which is irrorated with grey .... dasychiroides 
3 a. Fore wing of £ brown; a broad oblique whitish band and outer 
. margin beyond the curved black streak whitish; hind wing of 
with brown borders ...... postica 
b. Fore wing greyish-fuscous.; no whitish band across the wing; hind wing 
of d white, and with a black patch at tornus only; $ with the 
outer margin very narrowly irrorated with fuscous . concolor 
