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(lADlRTHA; ELESIVIOIDE.S; BLENINA. By M. Gaede. 
malagassica. 
(jlaiicogra- 
pia. 
plumbeoma- 
culaia. 
Ihoinae. 
chloronielu- 
7W. 
friederici. 
double only in its upper ])art, not on its whole lengtli as in duplicata. The white apical spot on the hindwing 
is smaller, the black marginal band on two thirds of its length broader than in hypsoides and duplicata. o 
70 mm. Blue Nile. 
E. malagassica liothsch. (17 e). Thorax brown, abdomen orange. Forewing dark olive brown at the 
costal margin, narrower than in hypsoides, finely sulphur-coloured below it. The median area as far as the 
apex white. The inner margin and outer margin olive brown. The basal line as thin as in hypsoides, undulate. 
A white median line behind it. Exterior line Ijlack, beginning in the discal fold, then inwardly to the lower 
cell-angle and vertically to the inner margin. A notched white submarginal line and a l)lack one behind it. 
Hindwing orange with a narrow black margin. $ 00 mm. Madagascar. 
20. Genus: Oaclirtlia Wkr. 
Proboscis normal, palpi thin and long. Antennae of tufted. Metathorax with a small tuft, abdomen 
also with small tufts. Both wings with a normal neuration. - - More than a dozen of species form this genus, 
most of which are Papuan, from New Guinea or Australia. Only one of these species penetrates in China and 
Japan to the palaearctic region, for which reason the genus was described in detail in Vol. Ill (S. 292). The 
sound-organ which was mentioned in the introduction to this subfamily (p. 179) has been fully described there. 
— Type: inexacta Wkr. from India and New Guinea; only 1 species in Africa. 
G. glaucograpta Hmps. (18 b). Thorax light red-brown, abdomen brownish ochreous. Forewing pinkish 
brown. Interior line white, notched, oblique, more excurved above the inner margin. A moss-green spot be¬ 
fore the line in front, and another one behind it at the inner margin, oblique above, as far as the anal angle. 
A fine black streak in the submedia ufold. Erect black scales in the middle of the cell. Reniform macula round, 
edged black, with erect scales inside. Exterior line grey, double, far outwards, then notched, obliquely in¬ 
wards. A large greenish white spot behind it at the costal margin. Sidjinarginal line pale. Hindwing dark. 
The Q shows the centre of the inner margui on the forewing white, and the hindwing is also white at the anal 
angle. — In plumbeomaculata Strd. the spots at the interior line and the spot near the apex may exceptionally 
be lead-coloured. 40—44 mm. Sierra Leone, Gold Coast. 
21. Genus : JBlesmoicles E. Prout. 
Proboscis normal, palpi obliquely ])rojecting. Antennae with a small pencil at the base. Prothorax 
with a tuft. Abdomen with a tuft on the first segment. Forewing narrow, without an areole, veins 7+8 + 9 
stalked. Veins 3 + 4 of liindwing stalked, 8 branching off from the middle of the cell. Only 1 species known. 
E. thomae E. Prout. Antennae of d long-tufted, of $ shorter. Thorax bone-coloured brown, abdomen 
bluish grey. Forewing of + yellowish brown, of ^ bone-coloured brown, in the bone-coloured brown in the 
anterior half, at the l)ase and behind the exterior line. The ring-macula and reniform macula are oval black 
spots. Transverse lines very indistinct. Interior line excurved in the cell, inwards in the submedian fold. 
Median and exterior lines similarly bent, all of them fine, pale, with a darker edge. Submarginal line indicated 
by pale spots between the veins. Hindwing bluish grey. 38—40 mm. Sao Thome. 
22. Genus: ISleiiina Wkr. 
This genus abounding in forms (more than 20 species are known) initiates the third group of the 
Sarrothripinae. The body is still somewhat flattened, so that the lepidoptera the shape and colour of which 
are very much adapted to lichens are very difficult to recognise on tlie trunks of trees where they often sit in 
great numbers (as many as a dozen may be found on one trunk). The variability is enormous and by no means 
local so that types of the most varied colourings can be captured on the veiy same trunk. As the genus is 
also represented in the palaearctic region (in 2 species) it was exactly described in Vol. Ill (cf. p. 292). — 
Proboscis normal, palpi projecting beyond the Irons. Antennae of finely ciliated. Metathorax with a small 
tuft, abdomen with basal tufts. Neuration normal, but vein 8 of the hindwing arises from the cell already 
close behind the base. Type: donans Wkr. from India. Only few s])ecies in Africa. 
B. chloromelana Mat). (^^ chloroptila HoU.) (18 b). Body reddish brown. Forewing dark green in 
the basal half, somewhat red-brown only at the costal and inner margins. Median area red-brown, marginal 
area blackish. Interior line yellowish, undulate, vertical. Median line oblique. Two black dots at the cross¬ 
vein, a pale sjDot behind it. Exterior line oblique, notched as far as vein 4, strongly bent inward at vein 2. 
Whitish green a little behind it at the costal margin. Submarginal line dark, strongly extra-angular at vein 7, 
dentate in the middle, inwards at vein 2. Hindwing dark reddish brown. 40 mm. West Africa. 
B. friederici n. sp. (~ lichenosa Grimhg. i. 1.). In the scheme of markings it is most similar to chloro¬ 
melana Mai)., but it differs in its small size and orange hindwings. Interior line of forewing projecting point¬ 
edly at the anterior cell-edge, above it somewhat inwards vertically to the costal margin, below the apex ob¬ 
liquely inwards to the inner margin, thickly white. Blackish brown l)efore it from the costal margin to the 
submedian fold, broadly white directly at the base. Median line white, steejier at the costal margin than in 
