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joint longer than the second, which is not the case in Antheua, though in 
encausta they appear to be equal in length, and the peculiar dent on the third 
joint I have only observed in marpissa and anodonta. I therefore think that 
this genus is sufficiently distinct, though it has great similarity to Antheua, 
of which it may be a parallel development. 
Only two species are found in this genus from South Africa, which may be 
separated as follows: 
1 a. Fore wing with a black line on i b ; oblique terminal grey area bordered 
by a dark ill-defined line, beginning at termen below vein 7 ; black 
scaling in cell ; never a black dentate terminal line ; female with the 
hind wing tinged with buffy-brown . . . marpissa 
b. Fore wing without black line on 16; oblique terminal grey area 
bordered by a sharply defined black line, beginning at termen 
above vein 7; no black scaling in cell; usually a black terminal 
dentate line, sometimes only indicated at tornus; hind wing of 
female white. ....... anodonta 
Zana Marpissa. 
(PI. V, fig. 21; PI. IX, figs. 24-29.) 
Eutimia marpissa Wllgrn. Ofv. Vet. Akad. Fork. xv. p. 211 (i860). 
Antheua spurcata Wlk. Cat. xxxi. p. 298 (1864). 
Dist. Ins. Transv. iv. p. 92, PI. VIII, fig. 10. 
I have ^s and $s of this species from Pretoria, Waterval onder, White 
River; Three Sisters; Barberton (Transvaal); New Hanover (Natal); Melmoth 
(Zululand); in Jan., March, Oct., Nov., Dec. 
Larva feeds on grass (E. E. Platt). 
Zana Anodonta. 
(PI. V, fig. 22.) 
Zana anodonta Hmpsn. A.M.N.H. 8. v. p. 476 (1910). 
I have rfs and $s of this species from Waterval onder, White River, 
Karkloof, Eshowe; in Jan., Febr., March, Nov., Dec. 
Genus RAMESA. 
(PL V, fig. 23; PI. X, figs. 8-1 1.) 
Ramesa Wlk. Cat. v. p. 1016 (1855). 
Hmpsn. Moths of India, 1. p. 142. 
Type tosta Wlk. Description from macrodonta. 
$. Head rather broad; proboscis present, rather short; palpi obliquely 
upturned, longer than length of eyes, covered with hair on under side, with 
scales at sides, three jointed; eyes moderately glabrous, rounded in front and 
less curved posteriorly ; antennae nearly half of cost3,, serrate on inner side only 
for about half the length of shaft with long narrow teeth, on outer side with 
very short teeth ; beyond middle of shaft the serrae become gradually shorter 
towards tip; outer serrae terminally with short hairs; base of shaft with a tuft 
of hair; legs covered with rather long hair; mid tibia with two rather long spurs, 
outer one longest; hind tibia with four spurs, inner ones about frd of outer 
spurs, median spurs longer than terminal spurs. Fore wing sub-triangular; 
