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MAGUSA; STENOPTERYGIA; PARASTICHTIS. By M. Gaede. 
torni macula ])ointed, triangular, edged with black. Ring-macula and reniform macula browm, surrounded by 
white and edged with black. The former obliquely oval, the latter above pointedly outwards.. A faint browm 
median shadow from the costal margin obliquely outwards to the lower cell-angle. Exterior line black, double, 
filled with white, almost straight and parallel to the distal margin. Submarginal line white, with black tri¬ 
angles inside, introangular at vein 2. Hindwing pale brown, darker at the margin. ^ 30 mm. Cape Colony. 
Subfamily: Amphipyrinae. 
Hampson has united the species treated upon here with the Acronyctinae. In conformity with the 
corresponding volumes of the other faimae, we have separated them from the Acronyctinae. As in the other 
faunae, the group of the African Amjihi'pyrinae is also very numerous. Common to all the genera are only the 
spineless tibiae and the bare eyes without hair or cilia. All the rest, such as the size of the proboscis, the shape 
of the antennae, the presence or absence of frontal projections varies. The larvae are smooth wdth single hairs 
on the tubercles, all the pairs of legs are present. Otherwise their properties vary like those of the imagines. 
As we noted in the Siip])lementary Volume 3, the name of this group is changed now by Hampsox 
into “Zenobiinae“ in accordance wdth the oldest representative of the family. Zenobia Oken (= Dicycla Guen). 
oo L. 
1. Genus: Wkr. 
Proboscis present, palpi normal. Antennae of finely ciliated, anterior hips of d' wdth hair-tufts. Ab¬ 
domen with small hair-tufts at the base. Forewing remarkably narrow, neiiration normal. Hindwing very 
large, neuration normal. Type; orhifera Wkr. from America. 
versimtora. M. vcrsicolota Saalni. (7 k). Thorax and forewing dark greyish-brown, somewhat reddish; lighter from 
the submedian fold to the inner margin, enclosing traces of the doid)le exterior line. The two maculae are finely 
surrounded wdth black. Submarginal line light, from the centre of the wing to the inner margin, a light streak 
at its upper end extends to the distal margin; the line is continued to the costal margin by a few white dots. 
Marginal lunae ])ale browm. Abdomen and hindwing somewhat lighter brown than forewdng. The costal margin 
sub- of the forewdng may also be lighter, and a black basal ray may proceed from below the cell; —• subterminalis 
tenuluahs. Qr the wdiole forewdzig has a grey ground-colour with a light brown costal margin; — callixena Strd. (7 i) 
ca ixena. ^ West, South, and East Africa, Madagascar. 
2. Genus: Steiiopterygia Hm.ps. 
Proboscis present, the second palpal joint somewhat longer than normal. Thorax wdth a broad ridge. 
Abdomen w ith small hairtufts at the base. Wings of a square shape. Vein 5 of hindwdng not quite so feeble 
as it ought to be, arising a little below the middle of the cross-vein, otherwise normal. 
suhcurva. S. subcutva Wkr. {= postica Wkr., calida Wkr.). The species occurs also in India. Thorax and fore¬ 
wing red-browm wdth black double lines, black sagittae before the distal margin, the maculae scarcely recogniz- 
mono- able. Hindwing whitish, brownish in the apical third. — monostigma Saalm. has a remarkably wdiite spot 
stigma, behind the exterior line. 30—34 mm. South Africa, Madagascar. 
iirmivena. S. fitmivena E. Front. Thorax and marginal half of forewing cinnamon-coloured, hindwdng greyish- 
brown. Forewdng entirely darkened as far as the median line and the reniform macula from the costal margin 
to the reniform macula and from the latter almost to % of the inner margin. The interior lines quite faded. Traces 
of black double streaks indicate an interior and a median line. Reniform macvila somewdiat paler than the 
ground-colour of the forewdng, somewhat triangular, more pointed above, edged dark and centred dark. Ex¬ 
terior line double, strongly dentate, incurved below the cell, excurved again to the inner margin. Submarginal 
line marked by a darker brown shadow on its interior side. Hindwdng diaphanozis light, discal lima and margin 
darker. 9 20 mm. St. Thome. 
3. Genus; l*arasticlitls Hbn. 
Proboscis and j^alpi normal. Thoracal ridge higher in front and behind. The abdomen also laterally 
wdth longer hair. Distal margin especially of forewing somewhat undulate. The feeble vein 5 of the hindwdng 
arises below' the middle of the cross-vein. Type; Jiejiatica L. from Eurojie. 
nigri- P* nigricostata Hrnps. (7 i). Thorax and forewdng light wood-coloured. Costal margin dark red-browm, 
costata. also betw'een the two maculae, which are almost only recognizable by this. A black streak behind the upper 
edge of the reniform macula. Interior line almost unnoticeable, the exterior line fine, strongly notched. Grey 
spots at the margin feebly indicate a light submarginal line. Forewdng of wdth some pink s^iots. Hindwdng 
gihhosa. white, brow'iiisli at the margins, darker in the $. 50 mm. Sierra Leone, Mauritius. — ■ gibbosa Front, from St. 
Thome, has the hindwdng as dark as the 9 usually has, and besides very intense black marginal spots. Abdomen 
above with a double chestnut-brow'n line. The ^ from Cameroon and the Gold Coast has pure wdiite hindw'ings 
without dark margins. 
