PARDASENA; MNI0THRT1A4. By M. Gaede. 
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vein. Exterior line oblique as far as behind the lower cell-angle, then angled and obliquely inwards, edgefl 
white outside. Snbmarginal line whitish, indistinct. Hindwing pale greyish brown, darker at the margin. 
16 mm. Gambia. 
4. Genus: Parclaiseiia Wkr. 
Proboscis normal, jjalpi thin, very erect. A small tuft at the l)ase of the abdomen. Tibiae somewliat 
hairy. Neuration of forewing normal with an areole. Veins 3 and 5 of hindwing from the same origin, 4 absent 
or on a short stalk with vein 3. Type: roeselioides Wkr. from Africa. One species in India and one in Colombia. 
1. Forewing of S beneath with black .scent-scales in and below tlie cell. Hindwing with such at the costal 
margin, black hair at the anal angle. 
P. virgulana Mab. (— nigriscripta Hmps.) (17 f). Body brownish white. Forewing brownish grey virguJfDM. 
with a black marking. A bent streak near the base below the costal margin. Interior line almost from the 
middle of the costal margin, extra-angular below it and below the cell, flawed outwards at vein 1, edged white 
inside. Two black streaks above the submedian fold to the exterior line which is edged white outside, obliquely 
outwards, slightly inserted behind the cell, inwards below vein 4. The veins behind it finely black. Submarginal 
line of dots, undulate. Hindwing wdiite. In the $ the veins and the margin as far as vein 2 are brownish. 16 
to 22 mm. South and East x4frica, Madagascar. 
2. Forewing and hindwing of normal. 
P. minorella Wkr. (17 i). Thorax and forewing brownish white. Interior line near the middle, fine, minoreUa. 
oblique, undulate, dark, edged rvliite inside. Exterior line pnnctiform, uniformly and far excurved, rvith a 
somewhat dark shadow outside in the anterior part. Submarginal line dark, punctiform. Finely black below 
the apex near the margin. Abdomen and hindwing white, somewhat brownish at the margin. $ 22 mm. Sierra 
Leone. Since 1866, when the species was described, apparently no further specimen has come to Europe. 
P. roeselioides Wkr. (= acronyctella Wkr.. brunnescens Hmps.). Body dark greyish brown, forewdng roeselioides. 
somewhat lighter, the marking black. Interior line punctiform, from below the costal margin obliquely out¬ 
wards to the inner margin. A black dot at the cross-vein and a darkening in the cell-end, as well as below 
it and behind it. Exterior line piinctiform, very obliquely inwards to the costal margin and inner margin. 
Submarginal line faded, dentate. Hindwing white, brown at the veins and at the margin. 2(1—26 mm. West. 
Central and East Africa. 
P. lativia Hmps. (17 f). Thorax and forewing greyish brown, the basal area whiter. Interior line very lafivia. 
indistinct, double, blackish, filled with white, oblique. Exterior line from the costal margin obhqne to vein 6. 
then undulate, otherwise like the interior line. Snbmarginal line blackish. Abdomen and hindwing brownish. 
$-24 mm. Gold Coast. 
P. punctata Hmps. (17 i) somewhat similar to roeselioides. Body brownish white, forewing somewhat puncfaia. 
lighter. Interior line marked by a dot in the centre of the cell and by scales as far as the inner margin. 
A fine dot at the cross-vein. The exterior row of dots towards the inner margin not quite so oblique as in 
roeselioides, somewhat blackish behind it at the costal margin. Snbmarginal line blackish, faded, vertical. 
Hindwing yellowish, brownish at the margin. 9 -6 mm. Natal. 
P. punctilinea Hmps. Body and wings ])ale reddish brown. A fine interior line very obliquely out- punctUinea. 
wards from a black streak at the costal margin, then fine dots on the veins. A small black spot at the cross¬ 
vein and one below it. Exterior line proceeding from 2 black s])ots below the costal margin, then fine black 
dots directed somewhat outwards, bent inwards below vein 4, a blackish triangiilar spot behind it at the costal 
margin. Submarginal line of small black spots. Hindwing darker at the iiiargin. (J mm. Central Africa. 
P. atripuncta Hmps. (17 i). Body and forewing greyish yellow, somewhat lighter in the median area, atripuncta. 
Two black dots at the base. x4n interior row of 4 black dots, the foreinost somewhat inwards. Then one each 
below the costal margin and above the inner margin. x4 dot at the cross-vein and one above the inner margin. 
Hindwing brownish grey. A -b mm. Natal. 
P. melanosticta Hmps. (17 i). Body and forewing light reddish brown. x4n oblique row of 5 black melanosticta. 
dots from almost the middle of the costal margin to Ta inner margin. At equal distances before this row one 
spot each at the costal and inner margins. Besides one behind it at the costal margin, at the cross-vein and 
vein 1. Hindwing somewhat lighter brown. cJ 16 mm. East x4frica. 
5. Genus: Miiiotliripa//mps. 
Proboscis normal, palpi very hairy. Metathorax and the base of the abdomen with small tufts. Fore¬ 
wing with a strongly bent costal margin, nenration normal. Veins 3 -f- 4 of hindwing on a long stalk, .3 from 
the cell-angle. Only 1 species known. 
M. Hchenigera Hmps. Thorax reddish brown, abdomen darker. Forewing greyish green and reddish Uchenigera. 
brown. x4 faded black band in the submedian area, often only confined to the centre, ending at the exterior 
line, or bent downwards and extending to the anal angle. Sometimes yet a streak above the inner margin 
