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— The (Jc? of fhis species show the feather-like, extensible scent-organ at the inner margin of the liindwing 
especially beautifully developed, almost as in the Indo-palaearctic juno. 
D. metaphaea Hm-ps. (25 b) of which only the $ is known may be only a form of the preceding genus, meiapham. 
Body and forewing violettish greyish brown. The lines on the forewing are not different. Hindwing greyish 
brown with a yellow exterior band to the anal angle, yellow also at the margin from the apex to vein 2 . 
— metaphaeana Strd. has a black reniform macula; here there are also specimens in which only tlie lower part mclaphar- 
is black, but these forms have not been named. 48—55 mm. West Africa. "" 
27. Genus : liag^optera Hbn. 
This genus composed of 9 species, mostly large beautiful Noctuae, is chiefly Indo-Australian. — Pro¬ 
boscis normal, palpi reaching the frons. Antennae of ciliated. Anterior and posterior tibiae of (J hairy, 
middle tibiae spined, posterior tibiae spined between the spurs. Forewing with a pointed apex, neuration 
normal. Veins 3—5 of hindwing well separated from each other; under surface of with androconia. Type: 
honesta Hbn. from India, from where nearly all the species originate. 
L. occidens Hmps. (24 f). Thorax and forewing pale red-brown, abdomen greyish brown. Interior line occidms. 
black, very oblique, straight, slightly thickened at the costal margin. Median line as far as the lower cell- 
angle parallel to it, then steeper. Exterior line white, edged with brown inside, ending near the anal angle. 
A blackish line from the apex inw'ardly bent, then vertical to the anal angle, j)aler behind it. Hindwdng 
blackish brown with a brown indistinct line from the centre of the costal margin to the anal angle; the middle 
of the distal margin and a small spot at the apex are brown. $ 52 mm. Sierra Leone, Gold Coast. 
L. durfa Plotz is compared by the author with Achaea praestans On. and macaria Or. which is perhaps durja. 
identical 'with Achaea echo Whr. But the tw'o species look very different. Aurivillius places the species to 
Lagoptera. It is described: Coloured like macaria. Basal area almost straightly cut off, browm. Median area 
lilac inside, brown outside, sinuately edged outside. Tw'o brown dots at the cross-vein. Marginal area lilac, 
edged with browm, wdth a streak obliquely extending into the apex. Hindwdng very similar to macaria (resp. 
echo). — lineata Auriv. is dark brown on the forewdng as far as the margin, but the violettish white transverse Vmeaia. 
lines not mentioned by Plotz are present, besides the black median line and the oblique streak to the apex, melanotica. 
— melanotica Aur. is still darker. Blackish grey with blackish transverse lines bearing a few yellowish dots, 
the streak to the apex black. Small dots at the costal margin before the apex in all 3 forms. 65 mm. West 
Africa, Fernando Po. 
28. Genus: Miiiucia Jfr. 
Palpi very long, thorax wdth an edge-like tuft. Anterior and posterior tibiae long-haired, middle and 
posterior tibiae spined. Type: lunaris Schijf., distributed over the wdiole of Europe. Besides wishotti Pglr. 
(Vol. Ill, pi. 63 g) from Palestine belongs to this genus. 
M. heliothis Pbl. Light ochreous. Cross-vein of forewing browmish. A triangular blackish browm spot heliofhis. 
above it somewhat outwmrd at the costal margin. Marginal area somewdiat darker than the rest. In it the 
same dentate submarginal line as in lunaris, dark browm behind it at the apex as far as vein 5 downward. 
Hindwdng somewFat darker than the forewdng, blackish at the margin, broad at the apex, disappearing at the 
anal angle. A 22 mm. Sudan. Only this one specimen is know’n. 
29. Genus: Euniimicia i/mps. 
Proboscis normal, palpi projecting beyond the frons, the second joint hairy. Antennae of A ciliated 
and with bristles. Tibiae of ^ long-haired. Anterior tibiae not spined, posterior tibiae spined only betwmen 
the pairs of spurs. Neuration as hitherto. Wings of A beneath wdth androconia in the basal halves of both 
wdngs. Type: conflua Hmps. Only 3 African species. 
E. conflua Hmps. Thorax dark red-browm, abdomen greyish brown. Forewing light red-brown at confhto. 
the costal margin, pinkish browm below" it in the middle and in the marginal area. Interior line yellowdsh, 
from the base bent upward to I 4 costal margin, then to vein 1 downw^ard about in the middle, from there 
as an exterior line bent upward to % costal margin. The space below' these lines as far as the submargmal 
line very dark red-browm. Ring-macula small, edged dark. Reniform macula dark, edged light, with a narrow- 
lobe as far as below the ring-macula, and an oblique prolongation outward again at vem 2 . Submarginal line 
yellowdsh, very wavy, at vein 5 inw-ard extending to the exterior line. Hindwing greyish brow-n. — ligulifera liguUfera. 
Strd. (20 e) shows a narrow deeper indentation at the junction of the interior and exterior lines. The point 
of the submarginal line is broader than in Hampsok's figure of the nomenclatiiral form. 58—60 mm. West 
and East Africa. 
E. orthogona Hmjis. (20 e). Thorax dark red-brown. Forewdng pale red-browm in the anterior part, orthogona. 
marginal area greyish browm, the rest dark red-browm. Interior line grey, bent dowmwmrd only to the middle 
of the submedian fold and united there wdth the exterior line. Ring-macula small, reniform macula narrow-er 
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