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Antals of the Transvaal Museum 
Hab. Woodbush Village (XII, Swierstra). 
Waterval Onder (II, Bonnekamp). 
White River (X, Cooke). 
Three Sisters (II, Janse). 
Barberton (I, Janse). 
New Hanover (IX, Hardenberg). 
Malalane (II, Gould). 
Sarnia (X, I, VIII, Janse). 
Durban (I, V, IX, XI, Leigh). 
Tongaat (Natal). 
Umkomaas (I, Janse). 
Ngqeleni (I, VIII, Swinny). 
Port St. Johns (I, VIII, Swinny). 
Que-que (Rhodesia). 
Ornithopsyche difficilis, Wlk., XXXII, p. 328 (1865) (pi. VI, figs. 5, 5a). 
Hmpsn., Ann. S.A. Mus., p. 410 (1905). 
Hab. Natal (? Durban, Clark). 
Durban (VI, XII, Leigh). 
This species is placed by Hampson in the genus Homochira on account 
of its crests. In the five specimens I have seen, only one crest is present, 
and this crest is very small and much less distinct than the smallest crest 
in H. rendalli. The fore wing of difficilis is nearly as in discalis, the stalk 
of vein 7 is a little longer and 6 is about J way nearer to 7 ; the hind wing 
has 3 and 4 almost stalked and the stalk of 6 and 7 is 2 times longer, 
while 8 touches the upper median at J. The stalks of 3-4 and 6-7 seem 
to vary in both genera. The biggest difference is in the process of the 
fore tibia, which is shorter and less curved ; the palpi are also shorter 
and the. third joint is more drooping. Taking further the peculiar marking 
of the hind wings in consideration, there can be little doubt that it is 
better placed in the genus Ornithoj)syche and may be looked upon as a 
connecting link between that genus and Homochira. 
Ornithopsyche quadrimaculata, nov. spec. (pi. VI, fig. 6 ; pi. Ill, fig. 16). 
c£. Head, thorax, and palpi above and the whole of the third joint 
fuscous (XLVI), mixed with whitish hairs ; palpi at the sides, thorax 
and abdomen on under side, coxae of legs and hairs on tibiae of fore legs, 
femora and tibiae of mid and hind legs white ; shaft of antennae fuscous, 
mixed with whitish scales ; branches Sudan brown (III) ; abdomen fuscous- 
black (XLVI), narrowly ringed with white scales ; anal tuft with fuscous 
and white hairs. 
Fore wing : the greater part of the wing, but especially the anti- 
medial, medial, and beyond postmedial area thickly irrorated with 
mahogany-red (II) scales, mixed with whitish scales at basal and fuscous 
scales at terminal area ; an elongate, rounded, white patch beyond the 
reniform, obliquely situated in the direction of a line from tornus to J costa 
and extending in length from stalk of 8, 9, 10 to vein 2 and as broad, as 
from reniform to J the distance of postmedial and sub-terminal lines ; 
basal part with many whitish scales ; sub-basal line broad, whitish,^ and 
from costa to vein 15 , angled at upper median ; antimedial line thin, 
