Annals of the Transvaal Museum 
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GENERA AUCTORUM. 
Brachionycha Punctulata. 
Brachionycha Htibn. Verz. p. 144 (1822). 
B. punctulata Wlk. Cat. vn. p. 1750 (1856). 
The species nubeculosa and sphinx ( cassinea ) for which this genus was created 
are distinctly Noctuids and are placed by all modern classifiers in this group, 
though Walker and Kirby place them in the Notodontidae. Meyrick gives 
this genus as a synonym of Asteroscopus Boisd. 
Whether the species punctulata belongs to this genus or not is impossible 
for me to say, as the species is unrecognisable from the description and I have 
not seen a specimen which can be placed here with certainty. 
Catochria Catocaloides. 
Catochria Herr.-Schaff. Aussereur. Schmett. 1. p. 67 (1855). 
C. catocaloides Herr.-Schaff. l.c. fig. 380 (1855). 
Sir George Hampson informs me, that this species is unknown to him. 
Datana Ruficollis. 
Datana Wlk. Cat. v. p. 1060 (1855). 
D. ruficollis Wlk. Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond. 3. 1. p. 271 (1862). 
Sir George Hampson has kindly informed me, that the genus Datana is 
purely an American genus and that through the kindness of Prof. Poulton, 
he has been able to see the type of ruficollis, which is in the Oxford Museum. 
He found that D. ruficollis Wlk. is the same as D. ministra Drury from North 
America and that the type specimen must have a wrong label attached. 
SOMERA POLIOSTROTA . 
Somera Wlk. Cat. iv. p. 882 (1855). 
S , poliostrota Hmpsn. A.M.N.H. 8. vol. v. p. 463 (1910). 
Sir George was kind enough to send me the following description of this 
genus, based on 5 . poliostrota: Palpi obliquely upturned to about middle of 
frons and fringed with long hairs in front, third joint as long as second and 
porrect, smooth; eyes smooth; antennae with long branches, about six times 
shaft, to apex ; hind tibia with two pairs of spurs ; thorax and abdomen without 
crests; fore wing rather narrow, the apex somewhat produced, no pecten on 
inner margin, vein 3 wel] before angle, 5 from middle of discocellulars, 6 from 
upper angle, 9 and 10 anastomosing with 8 to form a short areole of about |bh 
to apex; hind wing with 3 and 4 from angle, 5 from middle of discocellulars, 
6 and 7 stalked. 
GENERA OMITTED. 
ATRASANA. The species postica placed in this genus before, is to be placed 
in Hoplitis. 
INOUS is a Limacodid. 
OSICA Wlk. is a genus from Queensland and N. Guinea. The species veru- 
lama B. Baker placed before in this genus is the same as A . bicolor. 
EUTIMIA in which marpissa is placed, is Zana spurcata. 
