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Annals of the Transvaal Museum 
Hoplitis Postica. 
Atrasana postica Wlk. Cat. vn. p. 1750 (1856). 
Hoplitis postica Trim. Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond. p. 7 (1909). 
Trimen compares this species with phyllocampa and mentions that the shaft 
of the antennae is arenaceous, a character not mentioned by Walker. The 
brown border of the hind wing in the would distinguish this species from 
all other South African forms in which the hind wings are pure white with a 
dark patch at the tornus only. There is a possibility, however, that Walker's 
specimen was a $ and not a <$. This species is not known to me from specimens, 
though Sir George Hampson informs me that it is the common Transvaal and 
Natal species. 
Hoplitis Dasychiroides. 
(PI. VII, figs. 7-12.) 
Hoplitis dasychiroides Roths. Nov. Zool. xxiv. p. 250, PI. V, fig. 5 (1917). 
There can be little doubt that my specimens belong to this species, though 
there are a few points of difference, but considering that the author had only 
two $s to describe from and that the locality of his specimens is rather remote 
from South Africa, one would expect some differences. 
The branches of the antennae of my specimens are raw sienna (iii) and not 
black; the abdomen is fuscous-black for nearly the whole dorsal part, though 
one of my <$s is more irrorated with grey hairs ; the postmedial line is not as 
distinct in the figure as in some of my specimens, but in one of my <^s it is 
almost absent. It is peculiar that some of my specimens were collected together 
with phyllocampa on the same date and in the same locality, and that I did not 
get any $s of phyllocampa, but only one $ of dasychiroides. It is quite well 
possible that breeding will prove that dasychiroides is a variety of phyllocampa. 
One^ from Umtali, 5. 1. T8 (Janse) ; two <Js from Emangeni (S. Rhodesia), 
18. 1. T8 (Janse); a $ from Kourulene (Transvaal), 23. 12. ’08 (Mr Robertson); 
one £ from Salisbury (Father O’Neil). 
Hoplitis Phyllocampa. 
Hoplitis phyllocampa Trimen. Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond. p. 4, PI. I, figs. 2, 2 a (1909). 
My specimens differ very little from, the description and the plate. I have 
six $s, all from Emangeni (South Rhodesia), 18, 19. 1. T8 (Janse). 
Larva feeds on Combretum gueinzii Sond. (E. E. Platt). 
Hoplitis Concolor spec. nov. 
(PI. XIV, figs. 5, 6.) 
<$. Head mouse-grey (li) with a transverse fuscous-black (xlvi) fascia 
before the antennae, mixed with brown in the centre; palpi light buff (xv) on 
the sides, thickly irrorated with prussian -red (xxxix) ; hairs at base of antennae 
pinkish-buff (xxix) ; shaft tawny-olive (xxix) with some white scales ; branches 
cinnamon-buff (xxix) ; prothorax pinkish-buff ; remainder of thorax, abdomen 
and ground colour of fore wing smoke-grey (xlvi) ; patagia edged with pinkish- 
buff, centre irrorated with fuscous ; fore wing irrorated with fuscous and black 
scales; all markings black; sub-basal line faint, from costa to 1 b, where it forms 
a black streak towards antemedial line; antemedial line double, faint from costa 
to lower median at origin of vein 2, then angled inwardly at plical fold and 1 b; 
a black shading or fascia before it at plical fold; medial line faint, double, 
