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AETHODES; PARATUERTA; OVIOS. By M. Gaede. 
angusfafa. 
alhujuUa. 
angusfi- 
pennis. 
marslialli. 
laminifer. 
feather i. 
nana. 
ca pencils. 
septen- 
trionis. 
cross-vein and an interrupted exterior line. Hindwdng orange with a very broad black marginal band, d' 34 mm. 
Uganda. — In angustata -/.<£• T., from the Tanganyika District, the palpi and the spots on the forewing are 
white instead of yellow. Besides the margin on the hindwing is narrow. 
M. albigutta Karsch is very similar to the j)i‘eceding species. The chest is as black as the thorax above, 
while it is yellow in geraldi. Ground-colour of forewing black, sjjots white. The marginal band of the hind¬ 
wing is rather broad at the apex, then narrow as far as the anal angle, convex only in the submedian fold, so 
that two projecting bows of the ground-colour are produced, d' 34 mm. West Africa. 
27. Genus: Aetliodes Hmps. 
Palpi very long, the third joint thickly scaled below. Frons with a small conical projection in the centre. 
Tibiae without spines, short-haired. Forewing very narrow, so that the only species is quite dissimilar to the 
other Agaristidae. 
Ae. angustipennis Hmps. Thorax red, abdomen yellow with blackish-brown tufts. Forewing reddish, 
densely dusted white. Interior band white, faded, directed inwards, distally edged with a darker red. Red spots 
in and below the cell. A dark red spot at the cross-vein, from where a dark red line extends to the inner 
margin. Exterior line dark red, faded, widely excurved below the costal margin. Submarginal line dark red, 
dentate. Hindwing pale orange, pale red at the margin in front. cJ 32 mm. Nigeria. 
The following genera are only conditionally placed to the Agaristidae. 
28. Genus: I*aratiierta 
Frons with a large truncated cone udth projecting margins. Antennae of d' strongly serrate, of $ feebly 
serrate. Tibiae and anterior tarsi long-haired. Abdomen with hair-tufts on the first segments. 
Type: marshalU Hmps. 
P. marshalli Hmps. (4 d as leucographa). Thorax and forewing dark reddish-brown. An irregular white 
band in the submedian fold is slightly bent up towards the exterior line which is white, indistinctly double, 
undulate. Lighter violettish-brown behind it with 2 dark lines before and at the margin. Abdomen and hind¬ 
wing orange, narrowly margined with black. 44—50 mm. South and East Africa. 
P. laminifer Saahn. is quite similar. Tlie white band is very narrow, interrupted before the middle, 
not bent up at the end. $ 46 mm. Madagascar. 
P. feather! Fawc. The red-brown forewing with a narrower, more uniform white band. Exterior line 
dentate. A pale pink band before the apex at the costal margin. Distal margin also pale pink, vdth a red- 
brown spot at the anal angle. The white band is bent upwards as far as vein 4, bordered with dark sap-green; 
this border extends above and below to the costal margin before the apex. Hindwing dingy yellow with a 
reddish-brown anal spot. 8" 46 mm. East Africa. — abrupta Rothsch. is probably the same. It derives its deno¬ 
mination to the incorrectness of the original figure of featheri. 
P. nana Poult. forewing brownish white, marginal area browner. Interior line black, strongly cut 
out in angles above the inner margin. A bent black streak in the submedian fold extends to the double ex¬ 
terior line. Darker brown below and between. A faded reddish-brown spot in the cell-end is almost connected 
with a similar one at the cross-vein. Hindwing ochreous, reddish-brown outside almost to the margin. 
scarcely lighter at the costal margin of the forewing and in the cell than below them. Ring-macida and reni- 
form macula edged with black. Hindwing yellow' with a blackish-broAvn margin. 26—30 mm. Somaliland. 
P. argentijascia Fawc. is the same as Aeg. malidi Page7ist. (p. 18). 
29. Genus: Ovios IF^T. 
Palpi porrect, rather long. Frons with a large conical process with a truncated ])oint. Antennae of q 
shortly pectinated, serrate at the l)eginnings and ends. Base of abdomen with a small tuft. Type; capensis 
H.-ScMff. 
C. capensis H.-Schdff. Thorax intensely dusted black, abdomen orange. Forewing olive brow'n or olive 
green, the surroundings of the ring-macula and reniform macida white, the costal margin before them dusted 
black. The distal margin with reddish spots which are accompanied inside by black lunae. Hinchving orange 
with a black luna and black sid^marginal spots. 36—44 mm. South Africa. — In septentrionis Hmps. the tegulae 
and the base of the forewing are orange-red, the reniform macula is someAvhat more angidar, otherwise not 
different. $ 50 mm. Mashona Land. 
