VlCSOlCtlC(t. 
scndalha. 
luminosa. 
albigrisea. 
ruficcps. 
lacteala. 
nivea. 
ngphonota. 
prosticta. 
202 ODONTESTIS. By M. Gaede. 
N. mesoleuca Holl. (19 g). Body pale red-brown. Forewing white, dusted brown at the costal margin 
as far as beyond the middle. Traces of an nndulate interior line. Marginal area violettish red-brown, its in¬ 
terior edge extends from the costal margin behind the middle undulately to the middle of the inner margin. 
In the middle of the distal margin a feeble black spot with white scales above and below it. Two black and 
silvery spots at the cross-vein, a white streak extends from them to the costal margin. A fine black line edged 
with silvery outside, from the costal margin behind the middle to vein 3, where a branch extends to the dots 
of the cross-vein, then obliquely to the inner margin. A faint black patch below the apex. Hindwing brownish 
white. $ thorax and forewings of a pnrer white. Hindwings brown. 16—22 mm. West Africa. 
N. semialba Hmps. Body and basal half of forewing purely white, with an oblique margin. Marginal 
area brownish white, white only behind the exterior line from the costal margin to vein 4, strewn with some 
silver scales. Exterior line white, slightly excurved as far as vein 4, then inward, then again outward below 
the submedian fold to the anal angle, edged with brown outside in the lower part. A red-brown spot near the 
apex, and a dark luniform sjiot below it. Hindwing brownish white, lighter at the base. $ 1(5 mm. Gold Coast. 
N. luminosa TCAt. (= ])arectata WJlgr., lacteola Mab.) (19 g). Thorax and forewing purely white. 
Costal margin and marginal area pale violettish grey. Olive brown spots at the cross-vein with silvery scales, 
and a band from the lower cell-angle to the inner margin. Exterior line silvery white from near the apex, 
somewhat undulate, inside with olive and black spots as far as vein 3, then incurved to the median band. 
SidDinarginal line fine white, undulate, grey spots behind it at the white margin. Hindwing white, somewhat 
l:)rownish at the margin. The $ has a more extensively brown margin. 18—22 mm. West to East Africa, 
South Africa. Cilix tenax Snahn. from Madagascar, which we figure, is presumably the same species. 
N. albigrisea Hmps. (19 g). Thorax white, abdomen somewhat more brownish. Forewing white in 
the basal area, slightly tinged with violettish grey. Costal margin red-brown, marginal area violettish grey. 
Median line rather faded, olive yellow, obliquely inwards. Behind it a large square silvery white spot from 
below the costal margin to vein 3, outside with black streaks before the exterior line. The latter indistinct, 
excurved below the costal margin and below the middle, then incurved almost to the median line. Traces of 
a red-brown sidiinarginal line. Hindwing white, brownish at the margin. 24 mm. Rhodesia. 
N. ruficeps Hmps. (19 g). Thorax white, abdomen brownish. Forewing creamy white, narrowly brown¬ 
ish olive at the costal margin. Two small black dots at the cross-vein. An olive brown band before them 
from the centre of the cell to the inner margin. Exterior line of dentate black spots, excurved below the costal 
margin, oblique to vein 4, then incnrved. Marginal area red-brown, traces of a brown submarginal line. Hind¬ 
wing white, diaphanous. (J -f nim. Natal. 
N. lacteata Hmps. (19 g). Body and forewing creamy white with black scales, especially in the mar¬ 
ginal area. A black dot at the cross-vein. Exterior line brown, arising near the apex, where it is somewhat 
extra-angidar. then oblique to l)efore the mifldle of the inner margin. A parallel brown submarginal line be¬ 
hind it from the middle of the wing. Hindwing whitish ochreons. d' mm. Rhodesia. 
N. nivea Hmps. (19 g). Thorax white, abdomen somewhat brownish. Forewing silvery white, somewhat 
brownish ochreons at the costal margin. Instead of the interior line a few black dots between the cell and 
the inner margin. A very indistinct yellowish median line, excnrved below the costal margin, then obliquely 
inward. A brown dot at the lower cell-angle. Exterior line indistinct, brown, oblique. Sid^marginal line yel¬ 
lowish, indistinct. Hindwing white, brownish at the margin. The original figure does not show anything of 
the marking described, d -9—'lb mm. Central Africa, Mashonaland. 
17. Genus: Ocloiitestiis Hvips. 
Proboscis normal, palpi projecting beyond the Irons. Antennae of d ciliated. Frons with a small 
hair-])encil. Forewing with a curved inner margin similar as in Plusiocalpe (pallida, IS i), but l)eside the scale 
of dents at the anal angle there is another one at the middle of the inner margin. Neuration normal. Veins 
3 and 4 of the hindwing arise from the cell-angle, 5 a little above it. Type: prosticta HoU. 5 species are knorvii, 
all from Africa. 
1. Hind tibiae of the d very broad and long-haired. Hindwiiig beneath with a pad of scales in the lower cell-end. 
O. cyphonota Hmps. (19 h). Body greyish ochreons. Forewing greyish brown. A violettish brown 
spot at the costal margin above the cross-vein, somewhat compressed below in the middle, edged with black. 
A black dot at the lower cell-angle. Exterior line only distinct by the dark colouring on its inside. Excurved 
behind the costal-marginal spot, then straight, rather obliquely inward. A faded light submarginal line, ex¬ 
curved in the middle. Hindwing reddish brown, lighter at the base. -9 mm. Gold Coast, Togo. We figure 
a specimen from Uellebnrg. 
0. prosticta HoU. (19 h). Body grey, forewing greyish brown, costal margin blackish at the base. This 
species also shows a sjmt at the costal margin, greyish black, shaped as in cyphonota, with its end above the 
dot at the cross-vein. Exterior line l^rown, faded in front, shaped as in cyphonota. Hindwing greyish brown, 
somewhat darker in the 24—28 mm. Gold Coast, Niger District, Sierra Leone. The specimen figured is 
from the Ogowe R. 
