PiM. 26. II. 1936. 
PARATOLNA; ERCHEIA. By M. Gaede. 
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T. limula Mschlr. {= demaculata Strd.) (26 e). Thorax and forewing pale red-brown, darker in the litnuJa. 
marginal area. Interior line as in cryptoleuca. Reniform macula represented by a rusty red spot with a white 
angle inside. The two median lines pointedly united as far as vein 2, the exterior one strongly extra-angular 
above vein 5, the enclosed area darker red-brown. Exterior line fine, black, dentate, excurved as far as vein 6, 
incurved below vein 4. Black dots before the margin. The type shows also a submarginal line marked by the 
border of the red-brown distal area and the brown margin, a black oblique blotch below vein 6, from veins 4 
to 1 yellowish white dots at the submarginal line. The two other specimens do not show anything of this. Hind- 
wing red-brown, fringe lighter in front. $ 42—46 mm. Cape Colony. 
T. atrigona Profit is near compUcafa, but the reniform macula is smaller and rounder. While complicata airhjo>i.a. 
is darker at the base and behind the exterior line, atrigona is darker between the interior and exterior lines, 
and the white parts are much reduced. Hindwing uniformly dark. $ 56 mm. Madagascar. 
T. bolengensis Holl. (20 f) differs entirely in the marking and the contours of the wings. Antennae of hoiemjensh. 
feebly pectinated. Body dark brovm. Forewing pinkish brown, dark brown in the distal area. A few light 
and dark lines near the base below the cell. Reniform macula pale yellow, with a black dot above, U-shaped 
below. From its interior edge a dark line distally light-edged extends rather vertically to the inner margin. 
Paler behind this line as far as the exterior line, dark only behind the reniform macula. The exterior line extends 
undulated from near the apex, straight as far as vein 2, then it bends round vertically to the inner margin near 
the anal angle, and then follows the dark margin. Hindwing smoky brown, lighter at the base. 42 mm. Congo. 
T. eximia Holl. This species is also rather different. Body and forewing dark brown as far as the middle, eximia. 
marginal area paler, bordered inside by an oblique irregular silvery white line. The basal area is parted again 
by an interior and a median dentate silvery line and by silvery veins. The most remarkable is a dark triangle 
bordered by silvery lines at the costal margin near the apex, and obliquely below it a quadrangular spot behind 
the cell. Hindwing blackish brown. 50 mm. West Africa. 
34. Genus: Paratolua Auriv. 
Distinguished from Tolna merely by the posterior tibiae being only spined between the spurs. I presume 
that the Tolna-species beginning from com plicata having the same scheme of markings also belong to this place here. 
Par. brunneovittata Auriv. Body dark grey. Forewing blackish brown, dark yellowish brown at the hrunneovit- 
inner margin. Transverse lines black, dentate, edged with white. Ring-macula and reniform macula black. 
As for the rest, the author refers to his figure which shows an insect very similar to T. tethremicycla. Different 
is apparently a white radial streak in the cell (a rent?). Of the white spots behind the reniform macula the large 
one is reduced into 3 dots between veins 3 and 4, the thick streak following above it has become quite narrow, 
the last is absent. The exterior line, however, is more intensely white near the costal margin, and so is the 
whole submarginal line, with a brightening between the two lines above the inner margin, both interrupted 
dark between veins 3 and 5. $ 46 mm. Fernando Po. 
35. Genus: Prelieia Wkr. 
The only African form of this genixs containing about a dozen s])ecies was denoted by Saalmuller as 
Melipotis with Hubner's name which is latterly used again, since it is 30 years older than Ercheia. — Proboscis 
and palpi as hitherto. Abdomen with a basal tuft. Wings with a somewhat undulated margin. Tibiae slightly 
haired, the anterior tibiae without spines, the two other pah’s spined. The many species, excepting a palae- 
arctic one which is not rare in Central China and Japan, are all Indo-Australian except the one African species. 
They seem to be rather variable; some Indian species so much that they have been given more than a dozen 
names. Type: diversipeimis Wkr. from India. For further particulars on this genus see Vol. Ill, p. 335. 
E. subsignata Wkr. {= mahagonica Saalm.) (26 e). A very variable species. Thorax and forewing red- suhfiignata. 
brown. Interior line black, vertical, far outward in the submedian fold, then vertical. Median line double, 
vertical, faded, to a large black-edged spot in the submedian fold. Reniform macula feebly edged with black, 
and with some white dots. Exterior line black, double, from costal margin, far excurved at veins 3—5, then 
dentately obliquely inward. Submarginal line white, dentate, mostly indistinct. Mostly darker behind it from 
vein 2. Hindwing blackish brown, margin and fringe from below the apex to vein 5 narrowly white. — Now 
the forms: fuscobrunnea Strd. Forewing uniformly dark brown. — periploca Holl. Forewing dark brown, the 
interior and marginal areas greyish brown, with a faded black band in the submedian fold. — nigroguttata Strd. 
with black spots in the submedian fold before the interior and median line and behind the exterior line. — 
cinereotincta Strd. is grey in the median area as far as into the submedian fold; base and inner margin darker. 
— albovariegata Strd. is whiter in the median area. — plumbea Strd. is lead-coloured grey in the cell-end and its 
surroundings. 40—50 mm. West Africa. 
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fuscobrun- 
nea. 
periploca. 
nigroguttata. 
cinereotincta. 
atbovariega- 
ta. 
■plumbea. 
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