AITETA. By M. Gaede. 
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L. auritincta Hmps. Thorax reddish brown with a silky gloss, abdomen lighter. Forewing reddish iiurUinriu. 
brown, with a greenish golden gloss, especially at the costal margin. The two black costal-marginal spots as 
in the other species, brown streaks near the apex between the 3 white dots. Hindwing fiery orange red. 
24 mm. Niger District. Described according to 1 from Old Calabar. 
5. Genus: Aiteta Wkr. 
The (nearly 20 ) species constituting this genus do not exhibit the least resemblance to the habittis of 
the preceding genera. Their shape is much rather like that of Sphingidae or Notodontidae. The body is very 
robust and the abdomen projects far beyond the anal angle of the hindwing. The forewing is narrow at the 
base, widening uniformly with a long costal margin and a short inner margin, therefore with a very oblique 
distal margin. The hindwings which were rather large and broad in the Earias, are small and round here, 
very slightly oval. Half of the species known are Ethiopian, the other half Indo-Australian, a large ])art of 
the latter Papuan and distinctly allied to the genus Sphingiforma B.-Bak. from New Guinea, which derives 
its name from this resemblance to the Sphingidae. — Proboscis normal, palpi thin, erect. Antennae very long, 
tufted in the Middle and hind tibiae of with very long hairs. Abdomen with tufts at the base, long in 
the cj; neuration of forewing normal. Veins 3 + 4 of the hindwing on a short stalk, 5 normally strong, from 
the cell-angle or also stalked with 3 + 4. Type: ^nnscuUna Wkr. from India and the Sunda Is. Several speci¬ 
mens are only known of gamma, escalerai and meterythra, whilst the descriptions of the other species are only 
based upon but one species each. 
A. gamma Hmps. (18 f). Thorax reddish brown, abdomen greyish brown. Basal area of forewing gumma. 
violettish brown excepting the obliquely inward interior line. Then pinkish brown as far as a line from the 
middle of the costal margin to before the middle of the inner margin. Marginal half darker red-brown. A 
black spot in the cell-end. A whitish-edged y-like mark at the cross-vein and veins 3 and 4. The interior border 
in the marginal area is broadly daiP, the same being the case with a stripe to the middle of the distal margin 
and with the apex, the rest being somewhat less dark. Hindwing yellow, pink at the apex. 28 mm. Niger 
District, Adamaua. 
A. veluta Hmps. (18 f). Thorax and forewing inside reddish brown with a violet shine, abdomen vehda. 
pinkish brown. Interior line of forewing straight, obliquely outward, dark, indistinct. The marginal area 
blackish brown, its interior border bent dowmward from before the middle of the costal margin, at vein 1 to 
the distal margin, somewhat paler at the apex. A light streak at the cross-vein, and a bhiish-grey spot above 
it to the costal margin. Submarginal line strongly and uniformly bent, composed of black dots. Hindwing 
orange red at the apex, the rest more yellow. $ 28 mm. Niger District, Cameroons. 
A. escalerai Kheil (18 f) differs slightly in its light colouring. Thorax sap-green, abdomen violettish escalerai. 
grey. Forewing violettish grey, chocolate brown between the lower cell-angle and the anal angle. Inner margin 
dark sap-green at the base. Two triangular dark broAvn spots at the costal margin, a dark line between them 
to the inner margin. Submarginal line fine, dark, extra-angular at vein 6 . Hindwing yellow, somewhat ])ink 
at the apex. $ 26 mm. West Africa. 
A. parallela Hmps. (18 f). Thorax and forewing light chocolate brown, abdomen pinkish brown. Apical parallela. 
area ochreous, the border running from -3 costal margin to the anal angle. Interior line dark, straight, from 
V 4 , costal margin to -3 inner margin. Exterior line from behind the middle of the costal margin to the anal 
angle. The border of the dark area notched. Submarginal line fine, brown, introangular at vein 5. Hindwing 
orange red. $ 30 mm. Gold Coast. Described according to 1 $ from Kuniasi. 
A. meterythra Hmps. (18 f). Thorax and forcAving dark red-brown, abdomen dark orange red. Interior uielerythra. 
line of forewing greyish white, obliqiie, slightly concave in the submedian fold. A dark streak at the cross¬ 
vein. Exterior line grey, outward as far as vein 4, slightly concave behind the cell, bent inward again at vein 2 , 
terminating not far from the interior line. The median area between them somewhat darker in the Sub- 
marginal line fine dark, extra-angular at vein 6. Hindwing red. The $ exhibits a deejjer bend of the sub- 
marginal line. Hindwing not so red. 26—30 mm. From South Nigeria. 
A. schaeferi Bryk (18 e). Body and forewing coloured as in meterythra. Interior line running the same, schaeferi. 
Exterior line shortly outwardly angled below the costal margin, then straight, ol)liquely inward, ending near 
the interior line. A large blackish brown spot close in front of the exterior line behind the cell. Submarginal 
line of black dots, somewhat extra-angular at vein 6 . Apical area darkened, with an oblique border. Hind¬ 
wing yellow', reddish at the apex. (J 30 mm. Cameroons. 
A. acutipennis Strd. (18 f) is a very small species. The body and the base of the forewlng dark chocolate acutipennis. 
browm. The inner margin yellowish brown at the base, bordered by an oblique white line. Interior line white, 
almost vertical. Tw'o black dots at the cross-vein. Exterior line with a wliite spot at the costal margin, then 
shortly excurved, finer and rectilinear, parallel with the distal margin to the inner margin. Submarginal line 
absent. Hindwing reddish-brown, not so red as in the other species. As the ] 3 al}u are much shorter, the posi¬ 
tion of the species is doubtfoul. mm. Cameroons. 
A. thermistis Hmps. (19 a). Body red-browoi. Forewlng paler. Brown at the costal margin at the base thermistis. 
