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C. Forewing with the ground colour white. 



<(. Forewing suffused with green .............. mtiscarend. 



b. Forewing not suffused with green. 



a 1 . Forewing with the lines numerous, dark. 



a z . Forewing with the markings indistinct, fuscous. . .. rjeoru'mn't. 



1)-. Forewing with the markings prominent, black . . . . octophora. 



li 1 . Forewing with slight yellowish ante- and postmedial lines 



(6) DASYCHIRA CURVIVIRGATA, Karsch, Ent. Nachr. 1895, p. 373, 

 pi. iv. f. 3. 



Hub. West Africa, Togo ; British Central Africa, Nyasaland ; 

 Matabeleland (Gates). Exp. 40 mill. 



(7) DASYCHIRA RUBRIFILATA, n. sp. 



$ . Head and thorax pale reddish brown ; abdomen grey-brown 

 with the dorsal crests black. Forewing pale purplish grey thickly 

 irrorated with fuscous ; the lines ferruginous ; an indistinct waved 

 subbasal line from costa to submedian fold; a waved antemedial 

 line ; a reniform stigma indistinctly denned by ferruginous ; 

 oblique waved postmedial and subterminal lines slightly bent in- 

 wards between veins 3 and 1 ; a terminal series of striae. Hindwing 

 pale greyish fuscous ; the under side whitish irrorated with fuscous 

 and with indistinct postmedial line. 



Hab. British Central Africa (Ambruster) ; Rhodesia, Sabakwe. 

 Exp. 42 mill. Type in B.M. 



(8) DASYCHIRA ECSCOTA, n. sp. 



3 . Head and thorax reddish brown mixed with black ; abdomen 

 fuscous, the dorsal crests reddish. Forewing pale grey-brown with 

 some dark irroration, the basal half and postmedial and terminal 

 areas suffused with greenish fuscous ; traces of a waved rufous and 

 black subbasal line ; an indistinct oblique waved rufous and black 

 antemedial line ; the reniform denned at sides by very obscure 

 rufous and black bars ; a better defined double, minutely waved post- 

 medial line filled in with rufous, oblique from costa to submedian 

 fold then bent outwards, some blackish suffusion beyond it towards 

 costa ; a subterminal series of rufous and fuscous spots ; cilia 

 chequered grey and fuscous. Hindwing greyish, thickly irrorated 

 with fuscous brown, the terminal area rather darker ; the under side 

 more ochreous irrorated with brown, a slight discoidal spot, post- 

 medial line and diffused subterminal band. 



$ . Forewing with the medial and terminal areas paler. 



Hab. Mashonaland, Salisbury (Marshall). Exp. $ 30, ? 40 mill. 

 Type in B.M. 



