DIGAMA. By M. Gaede. 
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median vein, vein 1 and at the hind-margin their apices touch each other. In the cell and at its lower angle 
one black spot each. Behind the cell an 8-shaped marking. Before the distal margin obsolete spots. Hindwing 
orange. 38 mm. Madagascar. Type in the Berlin Museum. 
D. sinuosa Hmps. Thorax white, abdomen yellow, both with black spots. Forewing white. A black sinuosu. 
basal spot at the costal margin and one below the cell. At the hind-margin a larger one and 2 small ones. 
Irregular spots at the centre of the costal margin with ramifications towards the hind-margin and towards 
the grey marginal stripe being proximally edged with black. Hindwing pale yellow with blackish-brown marginal 
spots (cJ), or a similar band ($). 42 mm. Natal. 
D. septempunetata Hmps. (17 e). Thorax white, abdomen above yellow. Forewing creamy-white septempunc- 
with a black dot at the base, 2 in the cell, 2 on the cross-vein, one each above and below the cell. Hindwing iaia - 
yellow. 35 mm. Rodriguez. 
D. nepheloptera Hmps. (17 e). Thorax white, abdomen yellow with black spots. Forewing brownish nephelopte- 
white. Marking similar to spilosoma. It deviates by the marginal area in the forewing being somewhat darker ra - 
than the ground-colour and narrowed down to a dot at the apex. The two proximal bands of spilosoma 
are combined forming a median band. Hindwing white with a slight yellow hue. 35 mm. Transvaal. 
D. strabonis Hmps. (17 e). Thorax white, abdomen pale yellow. Forewing white with black basal strabonis. 
spots and a dentate H-shaped median band. The black dentate subterminal line defines a brownish distal 
area. Before it 2 black spots being often fused with the bands. Hindwing whitish-yellow, margin blackish- 
brown. 40 mm. Transvaal, Cape Colony. 
D. culta Hbn. (= marmorata Wkr.) (17 f). Somewhat like strabonis. Thorax and ground-colour culta. 
of forewing pale brown, marking dark brown. Separated from strabonis by the orange hindwing. At the apex 
mostly somewhat dark brown. 30 to 36 mm. Transvaal, Delagoa Bay, Natal. 
D. africana Swh. (17 f). Thorax greyish-wliite, abdomen orange. Forewing greyish-brown with a africana. 
creamy white marking. A straightly cut-off basal spot with small brown dots. Two central spots separated 
or united. The distal band likewise often very much reduced. In the cell, on the cross-vein and vein 5 black 
dots. Hindwing orange, at the apex blackish-brown. 25 to 30 mm. East Africa. 
D. aganais Fldr. (17 f). Thorax and forewing greyish-brown with a black cellular dot and obsolete aganais. 
bands. Abdomen and hindwing orange-reddish. 40 mm. South Africa. — daressalamica Strd. is smaller, daressala- 
Another black dot on the cross-vein. Around the cellular dot and behind the cell traces of somewhat paler mica. 
bands. Hindwing of a purer orange. The distal margin is almost invariably blackish-brown as far as vein 3. 
East Africa, Togo. 35 mm. -— albicosta Pagst. Forewing pale yellow. At the costal margin 3 white spots, the albicosta. 
last near the apex somewhat triangular. One black dot each in the centre of the cell and at the cell-end. An 
indistinct undulate brown submarginal line. Hindwing golden yellow. 40 mm. North East Africa, Togo. 
D. budonga B.-Bak. (17 f). Thorax grey, abdomen yellow. Forewing with an extensive blackish budonga. 
marking. At the base somewhat grey, behind it a black spot in the cell. The distal band is broad, spotted, 
more or less connected with the subterminal dentate line. Dark marginal dots. Hindwing pale orange. 35 mm. 
East Africa, Lake Nyassa, Gold Coast. 
In the two following species the ^ antennae are dentate. 
D. meridionalis Swh. Similar to budonga (17 f). Thorax and forewing dark grey. Forewing with meridiona- 
black spots at the costal margin, besides 3 spots in the cell, 2 behind them. A median and distal straight band O' s . 
below the cell; behind it a bent, strongly dentate band and dents at the distal margin. Abdomen and hindwing 
yellow. 40 mm. Johannesburg. 
D. ostentata Dist. (17 g). Thorax and forewing greyish-brown, costal margin whitish with black dots, ostentata. 
2 of which are at the costal margin near the base, 1 above the centre of the cell. One each on the centre of 
the median vein and at the cross-vein, between them a double dot at the costal margin. A dentate distal white 
line below vein 5 strongly incurved. Marginal area darker. Hindwing yellowish-white. 40 mm. Bechuanaland. 
In the 1 two following species the <$ antennae are plain. 
D. (?) costimacula Swh. (17 f). Thorax and forewing smoky grey. Abdomen greyish pink. Forewing costimacula. 
with 3 white almost cpiadrangular subcostal spots. Hindwing yellow with a blackish-brown margin. 30 mm. 
Gold Coast. 
D. (?) lithosioides Swh. (17 f). Thorax and forewing ochreous-grey. Veins distinctly grey. Hindwing lithosioidcs. 
and abdomen dark ochreous. 50 mm. Kilimanjaro. According to a photo kindly given to me by the British 
Museum, the species does not look 1 ike a Digama at all, but is somewhat similar to Hypsiforma lambertoni 
Oberth. 
