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without spines and claws. Abdomen mostly with I or 2 tufts at the base. Forewing broad and triangular. 
Vein 3 sometimes before the lower cell-angle. The areole may be absent or also very long. Vein 8 of hinrlwing 
arises near the base of the cell, in few genera only from the centre of the cell. The retinaculum of the ^ is 
bolt-shaped. All the larvae have 8 pairs of legs (Seitz). 
1. Genus: l^eiicophaiiera 
Proboscis stunted, palpi thin, porrect. Frons with a conical projection. Antennae of the $ somewhat 
laminated. Body tuftless. Forewing broad. Veins 3—5 near the lower cell-angle, 7 -f- 8 + 9 stalked. Hind¬ 
wing: veins 3 and 4 from the angle, 5 a little above it, 6+7 on a short stalk, 8 from near the base of the 
cell. Only one small silvery white species with brown bands is known, described according to a single $ from 
Oudoula. ’ 
L. argyrozona Joan. Its exterior reminds us a little of that of a smaller sized Neonegeta atriflava (19 c). argywzona. 
Thorax white, abdomen brownish. Forewing silvery white with a few copper-brown spots in the basal area. 
A copper-brown median band with silvery scales, the cross-vein in it with a black streak. The equally coloured 
marginal band inside with black spots, the margin itself narrowly white. Hindwing brownish white. $ 18 mm. 
Upper Guinea. 
2. Genus: £ai*iais Hbn. 
Composed of about 25 species nearly all of which have unicoloured green or yellow forewings; all of 
them are small lepidoptera, their larvae livmg in leaf-cases in which they also pupate. Like the imagines also 
the larvae are nearly all green. The Paj)uan region harbours again most of the species (8) which are partly 
confined to this region; a few are Indian, while 8 occur in the palaearctic region and 6 species are Ethiopian. 
One of the latter, insulana, which is also widely distributed elsewhere, is able to do great harm to cotton x^lan- 
tations and is vigorously combated especially in Egypt and Abyssinia. — Proboscis normal, palpi extending 
to the frons. Antennae of d' finely ciliated. Abdomen with small tufts at the base. Forewing with a rather 
pointed apex. Vein 3 far before the lower cell-angle, 7 + 8+9 stalked. Veins 3 + 5 of hindwing stalked. 
Type: chlorana L. from Europe. 
E. ogovana Holl. (18 c). Thorax yellowish green, abdomen brown. Forewing yellowish green. Median ogovana. 
line dark green, slightly convex in the middle. Exterior line dark green, convex in its anterior part. Costal 
margin at the apex and a fine marginal line violettish brown. Hindwing violettish brown, lighter at the base. 
25 mm. West Africa. 
E. biplaga Wkr. (= maculana Sn., plaga FJdr.) (18 d). Body and forewing coloured as in ogovana. biplaga. 
Traces of median and exterior undidate lines, oblique and green as far as the middle of the cell, lirown between 
them. A dark indistinct spot at the cross-vein. Traces of a green sidunarginal line. Hindwing white, dia¬ 
phanous, margin violettish brown. The forewing may also have black dots at the lines and a very black discal 
spot, while at the same time the space between the two lines is not filled with brown. — fusciciliana Sn. is fnscicUiana. 
without the discal spot and the brown area. 18—22 mm. West, South and East Africa, Mauritius. 
E. insulana Bsd. has been dealt with already in Vol. Ill, p. 296 and figured there on pi. 53 i. It occurs insulana. 
in Southern Europe as well as in the whole of Africa, besides as far as the Philipjiine Is. 
E. cupreoviridis Wkr. (= chromataria Wkr., fervida Wkr., fulvidana WUgr., limbana Sn.) (18 e). Thorax cupreoviri- 
yellowish green, abdomen white. Forewing yellowish green, red at the costal margin as far as the middle, ex- 
panded into a spot in the cell-end. Adjoining to it a fine median line, extra-angular below the costal margin, 
ending in the cell. A red spot at the cross-vein. Margin red-brown with 3 such spots, besides yellowish red 
spots at the apex, in the middle and above the anal angle. Hindwing white, diaphanous, brownish ochreous 
at the apex. The red costal margin may also be absent and the median line replaced by a dot in the cell. 18 
to 20 mm. West and South Africa, also in India and in the Sunda Is. 
E. glaucescens Hmps. (18 d). Thorax olive grey, abdomen brownish. Forewing olive green with a silky glaucescens. 
gloss. Traces of a slightly bent reddish interior and exterior line. Margin and fringe darker red. Hindwing 
reddish ochreous at the margin, lighter at the base. $ 22 mm. Niger District. Described according to 1 $ 
from Old Calabar. 
E. ansorgei Tams. Thorax moss-green, abdomen reddish brown. Forewing moss-green, without mark- onsorgei. 
ings. Hindwing brownish white, also without markings. 18—20 mm. Angola. 
E. citrina Saalm. ( - crocea Mab.) (18 d). Thorax and forewing reddish ochreous. Interior line finely ciirina. 
brown, oblique, excurved below the costal margin and above the inner margin, then spots in the cell and sub¬ 
median fold. A brown spot at the cross-vein. Exterior line finely brown, excurved between the costal margin 
and vein 4, then vertical to the inner margin. Submarginal line dentate. Hindwing white, diaphanous. — ci- ciirmellu. 
trinella Strd. has the thorax and forewings yellowish orange. — citrinoides Strd. is similar, but with a blurred citrinoides. 
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