1920] Holland, Lepidoptera of (he Congo 297 



The specimen in The American Museum of Natural History was 

 taken at Medje, in the first week of September 1910. 



Mylantria Auiivillius 



(608) 1. Mylantria xanthospila (Ploetz) 

 Anoa i?) xanthospila Plcetz, 1880, Stett. Ent. Zeit., XLI, p. 84. 

 Choerotriche orestes Druce, 1887, Proc. Zool. Soc. Loudon, (1888), p. 674. 

 Nygtnia orestes Kirby, 1892, Cat. Lep. Het., p. 449. 



Mylantria xanthospila Aurivilliu.s, 1904, Arkiv Zool., II, i>art 4, p. 54. 



Aurivilhus founds his genus Mylantria, of which this insect is the 

 type, upon the fact that in it veins 6 and 7 of the hind wing are stalked, 

 which is not the case in the genus Lymantria. 



The species appears to be not uncommon, and we have more than 

 one hundred specimens in our collections derived from many localities, 

 most of them from Cameroon. It is represented in the collection upon 

 which I am reporting by two males taken at Medje, one in July, the 

 other in August. 



Dasychira Hiibner 



(609) 1. Dasychira albicostata (Holland) 



Ilema albicostata Holland, 1893, Psyche, VI, p. 471, PI. xvii, fig. 5. 



One rubbed specimen taken at Kwamouth, July 15, 1909. 



(610) 2. Dasychira muscosa (Holland) 

 Noiohyha muscosa Holland, 1893, Psyche, VI, p. 453. 



One more or less defaced specimen taken at Bafwabaka, January 7, 

 1910. 



(611) 3. Dasychira crucifera (Holland) 



CEcura (?) crucifera Holland, 1893, Psyche, VI, p. 453, PI. xvni, fig. 15, o. 



A ragged and rubbed female has been compared with the type 

 and is undoubtedly the same. The insect was caught at Medje, 

 July 29, 1910. 



(612) 4. Dasychira gnava Swinhoe 



Pseut/orto^oc/onta i'iresce?is Mce.schler, 18X0, -Abhaudl. Senck. Nat. Gcs., XV, p. 77, 



PI. fig. 6. (nam. proeocc.) . 

 Dasychira gnava Swinhoe, 1903, Trans. Ent. Soc. London, LI, p. 477. 



One male caught at Banaha, September 22, 1914. 



