Annals of the Transvaal Museum 
225 
Polienus Fuscata spec. nov. 
(Pl. XIV, fig. 15.) 
Thorax, base of abdomen, antennae, ground colour of wings on upper 
side cream colour (xvi) ; head covered with cream coloured, ochraceous-tawny 
(xv) and black hairs mixed; pectinations of antennae and palpi at sides cream- 
buff (xxx), the latter mixed with fuscous (xlvi) hairs and towards head with 
fuscous hairs only; sides of face, frons, hairs of femora and tibiae fuscous, very 
dense on front legs, less dense on the other legs ; remainder of legs and hairs 
of abdomen on under side cream colour; hairs of thorax above mixed with some 
whitish and ochraceous-tawny hairs and with a distinct median patch on 
meso- and metathorax of ochraceous-tawny hair, forming a tuft in front; 
abdomen irrorated with hair-brown (xlvi) scales. Fore wing with costa thickly 
and median area moderately irrorated with black; a black point on lower 
median at sub-basal area and at frd; an oblique patch shaded with cinereous 
(lii) on inner margin from sub-basal to medial lines; this shading like the 
remainder of the fore wing is irrorated with black and fuscous scales ; an indica- 
tion of a medial and a postmedial blackish line; medial area except at costal 
and inner marginal area thickly irrorated with ochraceous-tawny, connected 
with two oblique fascia of the same colour and which go upwards towards 
termen; first fascia from vein 3 at |rd to vein 4 at beyond frd; second fascia 
from above vein 5 to apex; both fascia are irrorated with black scales; a series 
of black, small, sub-terminal spots between the veins from above 1 b to below 
vein 7; cilia of ground colour and with some black scales here and there and 
gradually getting lighter towards tip. Hind wing thickly irrorated with fuscous 
except at base, and near inner margin; cilia of ground colour except at base, 
which is fuscous. 
Under side: fore wing with costa cream-buff, irrorated with black scales; 
ground colour of both wings and cilia cartridge-buff (xxx) ; both wings, except 
outer margins, irrorated with fuscous; cilia with a fine basal fuscous line. 
Exp. 38 mm. 
Hab. $ type from Umtali, 12. 1. T8; $ cotype, Umtali, 7. 1. T8 (Janse). 
Polienus Nigrosparsa spec. nov. 
(PI. XIV, fig. 14.) 
<$. Vertex of head and shaft of antennae isabella colour (xxx), the former 
mixed with some black hairs, the latter ringed with black; thorax on upper side 
and base of fore wing below lower median whitish ; a median honey -yellow (xxx) 
patch, beginning as a small tuft on meso- and metathorax ; abdomen on upper 
side with long hair-brown (xlvi) hairs except last segments which become 
gradually cream coloured (xvi) ; palpi in front, thorax and abdomen on under 
side and hairs on legs cream coloured; hairs on prothorax and fore femurs 
and inner side of palpi hair-brown and fuscous; pectinations of antennae honey- 
yellow. Fore wing on upper side of cream colour (xvi) thinly speckled with 
black scales; veins and a triangular patch below lower median from base of 
vein 2 to near base of inner margin, cartridge-buff (xxx) ; some dark irroration, 
forming faint fasciae above lower median and vein 4, and from fork of 1 b 
obliquely to inner marginal fold; cilia cartridge-buff with some fuscous and 
hair-brown scales at base. 
Under side: ground colour of both wings cartridge-buff to white; fore wing 
with the costa cream coloured and with some black scales ; a black fascia from 
upper median and vein 10 to vein 12, gradually becoming fuscous terminally; 
