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broad, and very distinctly separated. Thorax and legs 

 thickly clothed with shaggy hair. Wings very hairy, fringes 

 thick and moderately long : fore wings not ranch longer than 

 broad, the costa arched towards the extremity, and the hind 

 margin rounded and not very oblique; most hairy along the 

 costa and at the base, where there is a dense mass of raised 

 hair, extending below the median nervure and its lowest 

 branch to beyond the middle of the inner margin : hind wings 

 rounded, with the inner margin concave. 



A very distinct genus, allied to Ludia, Wallengren (type 

 Saturnia Delegorguei^ Boisd.), from which it ditfers inter 

 alia by the totally different colour and pattern, and the much 

 shorter and broader fore wings. 



.43. Lasioptila Ansorgei^ sp. n. (PI. XIX. fig. 8.) 



Female. — Eich fawn-colour, slightly varied with rosy grey ; 

 prothorax grey above, a blackish line at the base of the 

 fringes, edged inside with rosy grey, the fringes sljghtly paler 

 in the middle and darkest at the extremities ; there is also 

 a regularly festooned submarginal line, blackish on the fore 

 wings, and reddish on the hind wings. Fore wings with a 

 slight transverse black dasli towards the base, a narrow 

 vitreous lunule bordered with black on both sides, and with 

 the horns turned outwards, at the end of the cell, and a broad 

 black dash suffused above in the middle of the inner margin ; 

 on its outer edge the submarginal festooned line runs into it. 

 Hind wings with a narrow black lunule opening outwards 

 and most distinct on the underside, at the end of the cell. 

 Underside irrorated with reddish atoms, except on the disk of 

 the fore wings, and with rows of yellowish hairs along the 

 nervures, which are less conspicuous on the upperside. 



Uganda, Dec. 22, 1894. 



One specimen only obtained. 



44. Lasioptila (?) pomona. (PI. XIX. fig. 9.) 

 Di-eata pomona, "Weymer, Stett. ent. Zeit. liii. p. 113 (1892). 



Magwangwara, German East Africa, Jan. 8, 1894, 

 A single male specimen ; the type specimen, of which I have 

 seen a drawing in Herr Weymer's possession, is also a male. 

 The generic characters agree in most particulars with L. selene, 

 but the insect is smaller and the wings much less densely 

 hairy ; the antennte are about 33-jointed, the joints closely 

 united, rather longer than broad, and deeply bipectinated and 

 ciliated. The end of the cell on all the wings is marked with 



