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Annals of the Transvaal Museum 
Only one species is known of this genus, but that species has a wide 
distribution, as it is found all over British India, Ceylon, Burmah, Java, 
Australia, South Africa, and British East Africa. 
Psalis securis, Hiibn., Ziitr., 2, p. 19 (figs. 291, 292) (1827). 
Hmpsn., Ann. S.A. Mus., p. 393 (1905). 
Hab. Pretoria (XI, Janse ; I, Swierstra). 
Petersburg (XI, Janse). 
Modderfontein (III, Buckle). 
Rietfontein No. 57 (XII, Janse). 
Carolina (XI, Radermacher). 
White River (VIII, Cooke). 
Camperdown (III, IV, Leigh). 
Sarnia (I, Janse). 
Durban (XII, Leigh). 
Umkomaas (I, Janse). 
Ngqeleni (XII, Swinny). 
Lymantria (pi. VI, fig. 1). 
Lymantria, Hiibn., Verz., p. 160 (1827) ; type monacha. 
Morasa, Wlk., IV, p. 859 (1855) ; type modesta. 
Sarothropyga, Feld., Reis. Nov., p. 8 (1875) ; non-descr. ; type modesta. 
Hmpsn., Ann. S.A. Mus., p. 410 (1905). 
Range : Europe, Japan, India, Ceylon, Burmah, Java, Amboina, 
Celebes, Australia, South Africa. 
Proboscis absent ; palpi moderate, reaching well beyond frons, 
slightly ascending, very hairy on under side ; first joint a little longer 
than broad ; second joint almost as long as first, cylindrical ; third joint 
thinner than second joint and about f of its length ; first and second joints 
with long hair on under side ; eyes large, about width of frons, rounded ; 
frons rounded and with long hair ; antennae as long as \ the costa, bipec- 
tinate ; branches at middle 8 times the shaft (in $ only 3 times shaft), 
suddenly getting shorter towards apex and ending in one bristle ; basal 
joint of shaft large and with a long hairy tuft in front ; thorax covered 
with long woolly hair ; abdomen with rather long hair above, especially 
at first segment ; anal tuft of long spreading hairs ; in $ there is an 
ovipositor, as there is in Lymantria monacha , but some European species 
may have the anal part woolly ; legs with rather thick hair on femora 
and tibiae, especially in the fore legs ; fore tibia with a process as long 
as tibia, getting very broad towards end and there obliquely rounded and 
ending in a hairy tuft ; in $ the process is much shorter and of even 
thickness over whole length ; mid tibia with terminal spurs ; hind tibia 
with 4 spurs. 
Fore wing sub -triangular ; costa and inner margin slightly hollowed 
out ; apex, termen, and tornus rounded ; a trace of la ; 3 from f to ^ of 
ower median ; 3 from f the distance 2 to 4 ; 4 from lower angle ; 5 from 
