PnhI. 3. XII. 1935. 
ANTC4RAEA; ODONTODES. By M. Gaede. 
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terior line black, dentate, bent, very oblique at the inner margin. Submarginal line whitish ochrecms, indis¬ 
tinct, notched. Hindwing greyish-brown, lighter at the base, with an exterior line of black dots and a light 
snbmarginal line. $ 30 mm. Natal, Cape Colony. 
7. Genus: Aiiig^raea Wkr. 
Proboscis normal, palpi thin, very erect. Antennae of cJ almost plain. Body tnftless, oidy the ab¬ 
domen with laterally projecting scales and anal tiifts. Nenration normal. Type: ruhida Wkr. from India. 
The genus containing a dozen of s]iecies is chiefly Indian; only 2 s]jecies are known fronr Africa. 
A. siccata Hmps. (16 i). Thorax reddish brown, abdomen greyish brown. Forewing reddish brown. .PirraUi. 
darker at the costal margin and the veins, so that the wing looks striped. The other marking is very indis¬ 
tinct. A streak at the cross-vein and the exterior line in the middle of the inner margin, black snbmarginal 
dots. Hindwing smoky brown, paler at the base. $ 28 mm. Sierra Leone, Niger District. 
A. purpurascens Hm.ps. (16 i). Thorax and forewdng violettish black. Interior line whitish ochreous. inirpuras- 
edged with black outside, very convex in the middle. The interior half of the median area greyish ochreous. 
Reniform macula edged with rusty red. A dark streak from the latter to the submarginal line, where it is 
forked. Exterior line white, very much outwards, then brownish ochreous. obliquely inwards, a red s])ot behind 
it below vein 2. Snbmarginal line indistinct, ochreous, with a black spot at vein 7. Hindwing smoky brown, 
a fine red streak at the end of the submedian fold. $ 25 mm. Gold Coast. 
Subfamily : Stictopterinea. 
Nearly all the species — more than 100 — of this sixbfamily are Indo-Australian; from the Ethiopian 
Region we know 20 species so far, which belong to 6 of the 10 genera of the subordinate family. In spite of this 
apparently insignificant representation, the Sticfopterinae play an important part in the African Noctuid 
fauna, since some species now and again appear in enormons numbers of individuals, as it was similarly ob¬ 
served in the Indian fauna, where sometimes imposing species (such as Stictopfera descriheti.s Wkr.) come fly¬ 
ing to the lamps by dozens. The jmlaearctic region harbours but one sjxecies of the whole subfamily: the 
strongly deviating Nycteola falsalis H.-Schajf. (Vol. Ill, pi. 53 c); another Indian species only jnst reaches 
the palaearctic frontier in Eastern Asia. 
The Sfictopterinae are mostly medium-sized Nocfitae, very near to the Euielianae with which they even 
might be united. Like many of them they mostly exhibit the proximal halves of the hindwings whitish or also 
lucid; the forewings, at least those of the African forms, do not show such a distinct angularity in the distal 
margin as it is noticed in the Eutelianae. — The most remarkable fact, however, is the almost unlimited varia¬ 
bility owing to which different forms of the same species were given a whole dozen of names of species, as for 
instance Stict. poecilosoma Sanlm. distributed from West Africa to the Mohiccas; this species, however, is even 
far excelled by the Indian Stict. describens Wkr. which occurs at the very same place and hour in nunierons 
specimens which are entirely different in colouring and marking and in which quite a number of deviating 
designs are repeated, without showing any transitions. According to this fact, they have been given correspond¬ 
ing names (such as [SteiriaJ variabilis Drc. and [Steiria] variabilis Mr.). Beside the hyaline hindwings and 
the varied designs of the forewings, a most uncommon formation of the antennae is to be mentioned in the 
purely Ethiopian genus Gigantoceras, their length excelling that of the costa of the forewing by to — - 
Further peculiarities in the sxdjfamily. such as strap-like extended forewings (for instance in Sadarsa longi- 
pennis Mr.), which, however, have not yet been discovered in Africa, will be dealt with in Vol. NI. (Seitz.) 
Proboscis normally develoiied. Palpi erect or obliquely porrect. Eyes large, ivithout hair, without 
cilia. Antennae ciliated, longer than the forewing in Gigantocera.s. Body only with small tufts or also without 
any at all. Forewing triangular, sometimes narrow. Forewing; veins 3—5 arise near the lower cell-angle, 6 
from the upper one; 7, 8 -{- 9 and 10 from the areole. Hindwing: vein 5 arises at the lower cell-angle or slightly 
above it. Fremdum of $ quite plain. In the hairless larva all the feet are present. 
1. Genus: Ocloutocle^^ Gi?.. 
Abdomen with a small tuft on the 1st and 3rd segments. Tyjie: ahuca Gn. from India, where a few 
species occur. 
0. aletica Gn.. This chiefly Indian species is extremely variable. Hampsox enumerates 12 forms of it. 
among which - - ferniginea Wkr. (16 i) is described from the f'ongo. Body and foi'ewing dark red-brown. Mark- ferruyinea. 
ing indistinct. Interior and exterior lines double. Ring-macula small, reniform macula large. Hindwing al¬ 
most black in the marginal area, somewhat lighter at the base. The form fer) ugin.ea shows a lighter inner mar- 
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