Publ. 7. IV. 1926. 
ANOMOEOTES; THERMOCHROUS; NINIA. By M. Gaede. 
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3. Genus: Anomioeotes Fldr. 
Forewing at the apex and distal margin very much rounded off. Veins 4 and 5 from the same place, 
7 + 8+9 forked, 11 anastomosing with 12. In the typical species levis Fldr. the vein 7 is sometimes not 
forked, 11 always separate. The $ with anal wool. 
A. levis Fldr. (Id). Both wings reddish-brown, very hyaline, veins black. Expanse 30 mm. Transvaal, levis. 
A. elegams Pagenst. resembles levis. Forewing yellowish hyaline, distally smoky grey. Expanse 18 mm. elegans. 
East Africa. 
A. nigrivenosus Btlr. (le). Wings orange-brownish. Costal and distal margins narrowly greyish- niyriveno- 
brown. Expanse 2G mm. Central Africa. SMS * 
A. nuda Hold. Wings very transparent, only at the distal margin ochreous-brown. Expanse 30 mm. nuda. 
Darde River. 
A. tenellula Holl. (1 d). Proximal area as far the cell-end orange-brown; the rest greyish-brown, at tenellula. 
the costal margin broader dark. Hindwing as far as beyond the cell orange. Expanse 26 to 32 mm. Cameroon, 
Togo, Sierra Leone. — separatula Strd. is somewhat smaller. The proximal angle on the forewing more roundish, separalula. 
The whole marking somewhat darker, more faded. 22 to 28 mm. Spanish Guinea. 
A. triangularis Jord. Forewing in the proximal area reddish brown, except the costal margin. The triangula- 
rest is black. Hindwing small, triangular, blackish. Costal margin, cell and anal angle yellow. Expanse 24 mm. 
Sierra Leone. 
A. phaeomera Hmps. Proximal area except costal margin yellowish-brown as far as the base of vein phaeomera. 
2. Costal margin, apex and distal margin brown; between them narrowly white. Hindwing whitish hyaline. 
Base and distal margin brownish. Expanse 34 mm. Cameroon, Angola. 
A. leucolaena Holl. (1 e). Forewing white, somewhat hyaline, apical third blackish-brown. Hindwing leucolcicna. 
slightly blackened at the apex, otherwise hyaline-white. In the specimens of the Berlin Museum the dark 
margin extends in the to the base of vein 2, in the $ to 3, yet they are probably specimens of the same 
species. Expanse 24 to 32 mm. Cameroon, Spanish Guinea, Gabun. 
A. nox Aur. (1 e) is separated from leucolaena by being more extensively darkened. In the forewing nox. 
also the cell, in the hindwing the whole distal half is darkened, except the costal margin. Expanse 26 mm. 
Congo. As a specimen from Fernando Po, with respect to the darkened area, forms the intermediary between 
the figured type of nox and leucolaena, it is possible that nox may be merely an extreme form. 
4. Genus: Tljcrinoclirous Hmps. 
Forewing somewhat narrower; hindwing large, roundish. Cell of forewing long. Veins 7 + 8 on a short 
stalk, or rising from the same place, 9 and 10 absent, 11 separate. Type: fumicincta Hmps. 
Th. fumicincta Hmps. is similar to a small An. tenellula Holl. Proximal area reddish-yellow, costal fumicincta. 
margin narrow, smoky brown. Hindwing broadly margined with brown. Expanse 30 to 35 mm. Congo. 
Th. stenocraspis Hmps. (le). Wings reddish-yellow, veins and margin narrowly brown. Expanse stenocras- 
25 mm. East Africa, Rhodesia. pL. 
Th. melanoneura Hmps. Wings ochreous-white. Costal margin, veins, and distal margin blackish-brown, melanoneu- 
Similar to nigrivenosus Btlr., but discernible by the different neuration. Expanse 28 to 30 mm. Central Africa. ra ‘ 
C. Subfamily: Pompostolinae. 
Separated from the typical Zygaenidae by the absence of vein 1 c in both wings. Middle and hind tibiae 
thickened, the latter in the with a scent-pencil. In both wings vein 6 rises from the upper, vein 5 from the 
lower cell-angle. 
We first deal with the genera in which veins 7 + 8 of the forewing are forked. 
1. Genus: iII5it Wkr. (Cicinnocnemis Holl.). 
Palpi long porrect, hairy. In the hindwing veins 6 + 7 forked. Vein 8 in the middle third of the cell 
very much nearing them. Hind tibia without a hair-pencil. Placed to the Pompostolinae by Hampson, but 
it may rather be a Sesia. 
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