Puhl. 30. Ill. 1933. 
METALI AXIS; DlTllECODES; ANTilEMOCTENA; PALAEASPILAlES. By E B. I'kout. 
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1. Genus: iffetallaxis Prout. 
Palpus short. Tongue present. 4ntenna of (J with fascicles of cilia. Hindtibia of with 2 s])urs or 
spurless; of $ with 4 sjuu’s. Forewing with apex blunt, distal margin smooth, cell rather short, areole double, 
2nd subcostal arising from the cell. Hindwing with margin slightly ])rominent or bent about the 3rd radial, 
cell rather short, 2nd subcostal shortly stalked with 1st radial. 
I founded this genus on two Indian species, semiustus Swinh. anel se7nipurpura.scens Hnipsyi., but have 
included provisionally the following from Madagascar, as it only deviates in relatively unimportant details. 
M. teledapa Prout (6 a). Smaller than the typical species, 3rd joint of palpus slightly less short, cell feledapa. 
of forewdng a little less short, hindwing with abdominal margin relatively longer, somewhat prominent at the 
angle. Very distinct from all hitherto known species, superficially recalling the South American ^^Acidalia” 
unitans Dogn. {Hamalia). The very dense irroration of the more reddish jrarts gives them a somewhat powdery 
appearance. Face brown-red. Underside qrrite pale, almost unmarked, with red terminal line and darkened 
fringes; forewing also with red costal edge, not very sharj) cell-mark and some reddish suffusion in and beyond 
cell. Hindtibia of A with strong pencils and no spurs, tarsus slender, nearly tibia. Diego Suarez. 
2. Genus: l>it]ieeocleis Warr. 
A comprehensive genus, or group of closely allied genera, characterized by the ciliated antennae and the 
presence of terminal spurs only on the hindtibia in both sexes (see Vol. 4, p. 46, where the German edition 
contains a double misprint which, however, can scarcely have occasioned any misunderstanding), nearly always 
also by the divided areole of the forewing; the dividing vein (base of the 2nd subcostal) can arise either from 
the cell or from the stalk of subcostals 3—5. Hindwing with 2nd subcostal from the end of the cell or very 
shortly stalked. The 15 hitherto described species are scattered in Africa, Asia, New Guinea and South America ; 
the only two African are very closely related to one another, and have the hindwing almost regularly rounded, 
whereas in the genotype and some others it is distinctly angled. 
D. ornithospila Prout (6 a). Forewing with areole nearly always double, both ample, the dividing omitho- 
wall arising from the cell. Lines slightly or scarcely sinuous, not at all denticulate. Named from the angular 
wFite cell-mark of the hindwing, which recalls in shape that of the Indian genus Ornithospila, it is, how^ever, 
similarly developed in some forms of the following species. Described from the Cameroons, but reaches the 
Ivory Coast and Abyssinia. 
D. delicata Warr. is, in its name-typical form, decidedly smaller than orniihospila (6 a). Areole undivided delicafa. 
or, if divided, with the distal part small, the wall arising from the stalk of the 3rd—5th subcostals. Postmedian line 
more distally placed than in oriiithospila, waved or subcrenulate. Described from Masindi, knowzi also from the 
Congo. - brunneifrons Hinp.sn. (6 a) is a larger form, which was taken in numbers by Doherty in the Kikuyu brunnei- 
Escarpment. trons 
3. Genus : Aiitheniocteiia Warr. 
Tongue short and very slender. Antenna of A with extremely slender, strongly ciliated jzectinations. 
Hindtibia in both sexes with a single strong median spur and a termizial pair. Forewdng with areole single. 
Hindwing with the costal anastomosing with the subcostal to about the middle of the cell — an extremely rare 
character in this subfamily; 2nd subcostal not or scarcely stalked. A somewdiat isolated genus of a single species, 
but with general affinities to Rhodostrophia and Dithecodes. 
A. textilis Wllgrn. (= lineata Warr.) (6 a) cannot, if the structure be considered, be confused with fe.vfUi.<i. 
any known species; from all similar obliquely-marked Scopula it is distingziishable at a glance by the unmarked 
hindwing. Transvaal to the Cape. 
4. Genus: Palaeaspilatcs Warr. 
A distinct genus in facies, the genitalia, moreover, showing no close affinity with any other yet stzzdied; 
but somewhat lacking in salient characters for diagnosis. Face a little more sloping than in most Sterrhinae, 
palpus rather strong. Antenna of cj strongly pectinate. Hindleg long and slender, in both sexes with 4 long 
spurs. Forewing with apex minutely produced; areole single, the 1st subcostal separating before the 5th. 
Hindwing with the costal diverging from the subcostal more gradually than in typical Sterrhinae. Only two 
species known, both South African. 
P. inoffensa Warr. (6 a). Rather variable in colour and in the strength of the postmedian, wdiich hioffensa. 
generally consists of a low of dots in addition to the thick, not very sharply defined, grey or brown line. Hind- 
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