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SYFANOIDEA; CHAETOSTEPHANA. By Dr. K. Jordan. 
before its apex, the yellow spot below the cell on the under surface of the forewings greatly reduced or quite 
absent. In the d' abdomen is covered with long hair at the apex, as in magna. Hindwing of $ either laved 
with rusty red, or clear yellow with the exception of a broad border of ferruginous (type). Discocellular spot on 
the hindwings varying in size. — From Kongo, Unyoro (type), Uganda quite a number of specimens in the 
Tring Museum; probably occurs as far north as Cameroon. 
obliquisigna. M. obliquisigna Hmps. (= kibwezensis Strand) (3 h) resembles small-sized specimens of the precedmg 
form, but has the frons in both sexes entirely white, without brown median stripe. Hindwings of (J more or 
aeqiie- less laved with fulvous, ah. aequepartita Strand, based on a poorly preserved specimen (^), has the two me- 
partita. spots in the longitudinal stripe of the forewing equally long. — British East-Africa and Taveta (German 
East-Africa), probably ranging nuich farther in the eastern part of the continent. 
abyssinica. M. abyssioica Hmps. resembles obliquisigna (3-h), but has the abdomen more heavily ringed with black. 
— Atbara, Abyssinia. 
I have described the preceding forms as five separate sj^ecies, but I do not doubt, that they may be reduced to 
2, if more closely examined: 1) il/. menete with its two geographical forms menete from West-Africa (Senegambia to the 
Niger) and rubida (Abyssinia); antennae white. $ with .short anal tuft. — 2) it/, magna with the West african form wa^?m 
(Senegambia as far as the Niger), mesia from C'ameroon ( ?), Congo, Unyoro and Uganda, obliquisigna from East Africa, 
and abyssinica from Abyssinia; antennae black, at the most slightly scaled at the base; abdomen of y with long anal 
tuft. All the forms of which we have a larger series, vary greatly in size and markings. 
taireiltei. M. latreillei Herr.-Schdff. (3 g, h). Antennae black; forewing with the distal band broader and more 
oblique than in the preceding forms, the longitudinal stripe sharply interrupted near the base, cj with long hair 
at apex of abdomen. — 'Nyassa Land. 
gynandra. M. gynandra Spec. nov. (4 b). d* with the terminal border of the hindwing almost as deeply fuscous as 
in $. Antennae black, occasionally clothed with scattering white scales; frons with dark median stripe, the 
yellowish-white middle stripe of the thorax broad, but lacking on the patagia; the black dorsal spot of the 
last but one abdominal segment enlarged so as to form a transverse band; anal hair of d* long. Forewings fus¬ 
cous-black above, as dark as in the $$ of the preceding species, the discal band equally oblique as in la¬ 
treillei, reaching to below the Irst median nervule, touching the costal border below which it distinctly broa¬ 
dens; longitudinal stripe inwardly dentate near the base, but not interrupted. Hindwings orange, with the 
terminal band sharply defined both in and equally broad as in latreillei. Beneath the dark portions are ful¬ 
vous in (J, black in fhe forewing between cell and po.sterior margin orange from base to nearly the lower 
extremity of the discal band. — Angola; several d'd' ?$ Tring Museum. Type from Bihe. 
16. Genus: Ba.rtel. 
Frons broad, rough, also in d; palpi with long hair, the 3. segment short, rather roughly scaled; 
antennae of d strongly clubbed; tibiae clothed with long hair, but without spines. In the forewing subcostal 
2 arising from the secondary cell, 3, 4 and 5 stalked, radial 1 not from the cell, but from the apex of the secon¬ 
dary cell; discocellular deeply incurved, radial 2 and 3, and first median arising closely together at the lower 
angle of the cell. One species. 
schencM. S. schencki Bartel (= leighi Jord.) (4 d). Head and thorax yellowish-white, mixed with chestnut; 
pectus grey, shaded with chestnut-brown, abdomen orange, with a dorsal row of black spots. Forewings 
chestnut-broAvn, mottled with yellowish-grey, on the median vein a longitudinal stripe of creamy white 
dentate on both sides, extending at the base to the costal border; beyond the apex of the cell a similar patch, 
oblicpie to the costal border; also the terminal area creamy-white. Hindwings orange, with black discocellu¬ 
lar spot and similar submarginal spots. Linder surface of both wings yellow, with chestnut-red apex and black 
discocellular spot; forewing with an additional cellspot, hindwing with several submarginal spots. — Natal. 
17. Genus: C'liaetostephaiia gen. nov. 
Frons in both sexes broad, strongly rounded, feebly projecting at the middle, but without any raised 
ring. Antennae of d and $ thickened distally. Palpi almost as in Hespagarista ■, 2. and 3. segments clothed 
with moderately long hair, 3. rather rough and thick, not pencil-shaped as in Aegocera\ hind tibiae rough. 
Abdomen with feeble tuft of hair on the 1. segment, but lacking the long anal hair [A) of Hespagarista. In the 
forewing the cell exceeds in length half of the wing; 2. subcostal nervule from secondary cell, 3, 4 and 5 
