PSEUDOTHYMARA; DORATOPTERYX; PEDOPTILA. By M. Gaede. 
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S. lydia Weym. (1 b). Only the hind-margin of the forewing is yellow, the rest darker than in the hjdia. 
other species, hindwing in the first third orange, behind the middle somewhat broader and with a small oblong 
orange spot. Expanse 23 to 26 mm. Benguela. 
S. fulveolans Mab. (1 c). Forewing yellow as far as about % of the cell and from there to the anal fulveolans. 
angle. The usual yellow spot is situate round the cross-vein, not behind it. Hindwing as far as behind the middle 
comparatively broad. Proximal half and a spot before the end of the widening orange. Expanse 26 mm. East 
Africa, Angola. 
S. dolicholoba Hmps. Forewing orange-yellow below the costal margin almost to the cell-end, and dolicholoba. 
below vein 2 to the distal margin. Hindwing gradually widening into the large lobe and then gradually narrowing 
down. Tail rather short and broad, orange-yellow as far as the lobe. The yellow spot in the lobe is elliptic. 
Expanse 22 to 24 mm. East Africa. 
S. marshalli Rothsch. Forewing pale yellow as far as behind the cell-end and then to the anal angle, marshalli. 
Hindwing gradually narrowing down from the base to the apex, with a small yellow spot in the centre. Mashuna 
Land. 
3. Genus: Psemlo tliy imira RU. 
In the forewing the veins 4 -j- 5 and 7 + 8 + 9 are forked, vein 10 absent. 
Ps. staudingeri Rgh. (1 c). Smoky brown. at the base of the forewing very little orange, $ a little staudingeri. 
more orange. Hindwing at the base orange. Apex white. Expanse 26 to 32 mm. Sierra Leone. 
The following genera have but one hind m a r g i n a 1 vein in the forewing. 
4. Genus: Doratopteryx Rgh. 
In the forewing the veins 4 and 5 rise a little separately, 8+9 forked, 10 and 11 absent. Type: afro, Rgh. 
D. afra Rgh. (1 c). Forewing smoky brown, diaphanous. At the base below the cell golden yellow", afra. 
Hindwing very narrow, only at the base broader and golden brown, otherwise dark. Expanse 17 mm. East 
Africa. 
D. zopheropa B.-BaTc. Fore wing smoky grey. In and below the cell yellowish. Hindwing band-shaped; zopheropa. 
only at the base yellowish, otherwise darker. Expanse 22 mm. Uganda. 
D. steniptera Hmps. (la). Forewing brown. Costal margin and veins reddish-brown. Below the steniptera. 
base of the cell yellow as far as behind the centre. Hindwing at the base and a little at % widened. At the 
base golden yellow, otherwise brown. Expanse 18 mm. East Africa. 
D. p’umigera Btlr. Forewing greyish-brown, below the cell golden yellow. Hindwing shaped as in piumUjcra. 
steniptera (1 a), also before the posterior expansion golden yellow. Expanse 18 mm. East Africa. 
5. Genus: Pedoptila Btlr. 
Little different from the preceding genus. In the forewing, however, veins 4 + 5 forked or at least 
rising from the same place. Type: nemopteridia Btlr. 
P. nemopteridia Btlr. Basal area of forewing as far as 2 / 5 and base of hindwing on y 3 reddish smoky ncmopteri- 
brown, the rest grey. Hindwing at the end spatulately expanded. Expanse of wings: 20 mm. West Africa. dia - 
P. thaletes Drc. Basal half of forewing reddish-orange, distal half black. Hindwing reddish-orange, thaletes. 
the widening black, apex white. Expanse 26 mm. Cameroon, Congo. 
P. catori B.-Bak. (1 b). Forewing as far as the cell-end yellowish and on the hindwing the basal third, catori. 
The rest is blackish. The widening and narrowing on the hindwing somewhat steeper than in nemopteridia 
Apex of hindwing white. Expanse 22 mm. Uganda. 
P. nigrocristata Joicey (1 b). The yellow basal area extends farther to the costal margin than in nigrocrista- 
catori, and distally it is hollow-margined. Hindwing very narrow, before the end ovally widened. Apex not ^ a - 
white. Expanse 28 mm. North Rhodesia. 
