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8. Genus: Gotfasa Wkr. 
Palpi shorter than in the other genera. Antennae of 3 filiform. In the forewing veins 7 + 8 t 
are forked, vein 10 forming with 7 an accessory cell. In the hindwing vein 5 is more feebly developed and 
rises on the centre of the cross-vein, for which reason the genus would have to be placed to the Agaristidae. 
On the other hand vein 8 is connected with the cell by a fillet, as in typical Hypsidae, and the marking of the 
forewing recalls that of some species of Aganais. Type: sidae F. 
sidae. G. sidae F. (= dimidiata F., maculatrix Wkr., mecynoides Mob.) Thorax and forewing greyish- 
brown, body lemon-coloured with black spots. Distal half of forewing dark brown with light veins. In the 
light proximal part dark dots, the distal area crossed by a yellowish dentate line and a subapical line. Hindwing 
orientis. lemon-coloured, distal margin broadly bluish-black. 34 to 40 mm. Cameroon, Eernando Po, Congo. — orientis 
Brtl. (17 g). Ground-colour of forewing much lighter, marking also lighter. Larger. 54 mm. East Africa. 
rufodiscalis. G. rufodiscalis Rothsch. (18 a) differs much in the shape of the wings and the marking. Thorax and 
forewing chocolate-brown with small blue dots below the costal margin, on the cross-vein and in the hindmarginal 
foild. Before the distal margin small white dots. Hindwing black with an orange central spot af far as the 
hnd-margin. Abdomen at the base black, otherwise orange. 40 mm. Madagascar. 
9. Genus: Sarothroceras Mab. 
This genus still more deviates from the other Hypsidae than the preceding genus, for which reason 
it is also often placed beside it as a separate group. Palpi long and laterally compressed, first and second joints 
hairy. Veins in the forewing: vein 6 rises somewhat below the upper cell-angle, veins 7 + 8 + 9 forked, 10 
forming with 7 the accessory cell. In the hinclwing veins 3 and 4 rise from the lower cell-angle, 6 and 7 from 
the upper cell-angle. Vein 5 from the centre of the cross-vein, both being somewhat feebler than in other 
genera. Vein 8 but slightly touches the cell near the base. Type: pallida Drc. 
pallida. S. pallida Drc. (=■ alluaudi Mab.) (17 g). Body and forewing dark reddish-brown. Above the hind- 
margin a large triangular blackish-brown spot the apex of which touches the lower cell-angle. Behind it a 
somewhat rectangular subapical spot. Above vein 2 as far as this spot more or less white. Erom the distal 
margin of the spot a dentate white line extends to the hind-margin close in front of the anal angle. Hindwing 
carmine, more rarely yellow, with a broad blackish-brown margin. 48 to 55 m m . West Africa. 
rhomboidea. S. rhomboidea Weym. (17 g) is very similar to pallida. In the forewing outside the brown triangle 
above the hind-margin a comparatively narrow white stripe extends to the hind-margin. If it is defined by 
tessmanni. a- dentate line, the latter is situate more proximad than in pallida. Hindwing not different. — tessmanni Gaede 
(17 g) probably belongs to this species. Outside the large triangle and at its edge somewhat lighter. Where 
sordidus. the white band otherwise terminates, we notice traces of a dentate line. — sordidus Rothsch. The white band 
is narrow, but it reaches the hind-margin. The yellow hindwing is very much darkened. 50 to 55 mm. 
West Africa. 
IV. Subfamily: Micrarctiinae. 
As has already been stated in Vol. II, p. 71, this family comprises those genera of the Arctiid tribe representing 
the transitions from the genuine Arctia to the Lithosiinae or Callimorphinae, such as the XJtefheisa and Coscinia whit Lithosiid 
characters, the Phragmatobia, as a transition to the Spilosominae etc. — The Argina leading over to the Callimorphinae are 
here already inserted in that group. In Ethiopian Africa most of the genera of this chiefly palearctic group are entirely absent. 
Of the genus Ocnogyna which in the North African Fauna is distinguished by its large forms and by its great number of 
individuals, not one species occurs to the south of the Sahara. (Seitz.) 
1. Genus: Uemotles Hmps. 
Antennae of 3 bipectinate. Eorewing narrow, hindwing large. In the forewing veins 7 + 8 and 9 + 10 
are forked. In the hindwing veins 4 + 5 and 6 + 7 are forked. Type: heterogyna Hmps. 
heterogyna. I. heterogyna Hmps. (12 a). Head and thorax white, abdomen orange. Forewing (3) changing from 
yellowish-brown to violettish-brown, at the hind-margin below vein 1 white. Hindwing orange. Both wings 
with a black central spot. Forewing of the $ silvery white, at the hind-margin above vein 1 blackish-brown. 
40 mm. Natal, Cape Colony. 
