Annals of the Transvaal Museum, 
27 
Hind wing fuscous-black, with some light orange-yellow (III) hairs 
at basal and inner marginal part ; cilia light orange-yellow. 
Under side : fore wing fuscous-black, except a white postmedial 
elliptical patch from vein 5 to inner margin ; veins in patch and lower 
part of patch from above vein lb to inner margin pale orange-yellow ; 
costa edged with pale orange-yellow, broadly at basal and postmedial 
part ; hind wing as on upper side, but with no light orange-yellow hairs 
from median fold, but with some light orange-yellow scales at tornus. 
§. Abdomen more pale orange-yellow ; dorsal tufts very large and 
consisting of black scales ; fore wing cream colour (XVI) ; basal patch 
between median fold and inner margin larger and somewhat extended 
along inner margin to postmedian line ; anbimedial line ochraceous-orange 
(XV), mixed with fuscous scales, angled at cell and rounded between 
vein 2 and lb ; reniform more distinct, consisting of fuscous-black scales ; 
medial line ochraceous-orange, diffused and extended over reniform, angled 
at 5 ; postmedial double, less angled than in <J, made of russet scales and 
waved at veins, outer line less distinct from discal to medial fold, bub 
extended at costal area till near sub-terminal line to an irr oration of 
fuscous-black and becoming more amber brown (III) between vein 4 and 6 
and with a blackish in oration near inner margin ; sub-terminal as in <J, 
but less distinct ; cilia of ground colour and with fuscous scales at between 
veins 2 to 6. Hind wing light orange-yellow; an indication of a medial 
line by a dark irr oration ;* cilia of ground colour. 
Under side : both wings light orange-yellow, except postmedial part 
of fore wing, which is pale orange-yellow (III) ; a fuscous irroration at 
medial part, from areole to inner margin along which it is extended towards 
base and tornus ; a thin postmedial irrorabion from vein 2 to 5 or 6 ; hind 
wing with medial line represented by a broad fuscous-black irroration. 
Exp. 27 -3 mill. ; $, 44 -4 mill. 
It is possible that the £ is abnormally small, as I bred at the same 
time an abnormally small $ of 31 T mill., but the $ specimen seems quite 
normally developed, while the $ specimen is clearly crippled. 
One £ type from Barberton (I, Janse) in coll., Janse. 
One § type from Woodbush Village (XII, Swierstra) in coll., Tvl. Mus. 
2 $$ co-types from Barberton (XI) in coll., Tvl. Mus. and Janse ; 
another small § from Barberton (I, Janse). 
Genus Dasychira (pi. V, fig. 2). 
Dasychira, Steph., 111. Brit. Ent. Haust., II, p. 58 (1829) ; type pudibunda. 
Boreconia, Wlk., Cat. XXXII, p. 459 (1865) ; type fusca. 
Hmpsn., “ S.A. Moths,” Ann. S.A. Mus., p. 396 (1905). 
The following description is made from D. pudibunda : — 
Proboscis very short, almost absent ; palpi porrect, short, just reaching 
beyond frons ; first joint pear-shaped ; second joint thick, oval, 2 times 
first joint ; third joint shorter than firsb joint, blunt, thin, and hidden by 
* In one $ there is no dark irroration in fore wing and hind wing, except the basal 
patch near inner margin ; the sub-terminal line is thin, brownish, distinct, and angled 
inwards at vein 5 ; under side with no markings. 
