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7. Genus: Pirgula Tessm. 
Forewing with an accessory cell which is not elongate, vein 8 of hindwing separate not anastomosing. 
P. decenipunctata Tessm. (= [ Laelia ] qninquepunctata Wichgr.) (19 b). White, forewing with 3 black decempunc 
dots before the apex and 2 similar ones above the tornus, above and below the fold. German East Africa. 
P. octopunctata Tessm. White, with a black dot of the forewing before the margin above vein 6, and octopuncta 
a black base of the costal margin, hindwing with a dot at the tornus and submarginally above vein 5. — In 
the form adusta Tessm. (19 b) the forewing shows a blackened apex and margin. Cameroon. adusta. 
8. Genus: Plrguliiia gen. nov. 
Like the preceding genus, but vein 11 rises from the accessory cell, 10 to 7 are forked, 10 rising with 
7 from the same place. 
P. jordani sp. n. (19 b). White, wings transparent, forewing at the costal margin as far as 1 / i finely jordani. 
black, expanded to the dot at the base, 2 spots before the apex and 2 above the tornus, above and below 
1 a, hindwing with 2 dots at the hind-margin shortly before the tornus. $ type from Diego Suarez in the Tring 
Museum. Madagascar. 
Alphabetical List 
with reference to the original descriptions of the forms of the African Pterothysanidae. 
* signifies that the form is also figured at the place cited. 
adusta Pirgula Tessm. Mitt. Zool. Mus. Berlin 10 (1921), 
p. 216. 
albescens Hibr. Joic. & Talb. Bull. Hill. Mus. 1 (1924), p. 558. 
albopunctata Hibr. B.-Bak. Ann. Nat. Hist. 16 (1915), p. 198. 
ansorgei Hibr. Kirby Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. (6) 18 (1896), 
p. 388. * 
bolivari Opob. Kheil Mem. Soc. Espan. 1 (1909), p. 492. 
craushayi Hibr. Hmps. Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond. 1910, p. 453. 
crawshayi Hibr. Btlr. Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. (6) 18 (1896), 
p. 162. 
decempunctata Pirgula Tessm. Mitt. Zool. Mus. Berlin 10 
(1921), p. 216. 
fuseata Hibr. Her. Seitz, Macrolep. 14, p. 124. * 
liyalina Lepid. Janse Ann. Transv. Mus. 5 (1915), p. 9. * 
infausta Pseudostrac. Her. Seitz, Macrolep. 14, p. 124. * 
jordani Pirgulin. Her. Seitz, Macrolep. 14, p. 125. * 
monilifera Calosch. Mab. Bull. Soc. Zool. France 3 (1878), 
p. 86. 
neavi Hibr. Hmps. Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond. 1910, p. 454. * 
norax Hibr. Drc. Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond. 1887 (1888), p. 675. 
octopunctata Pirgula Tessm. Mitt. Zool. Mus. Berlin 10 (1921), 
p. 216. 
pulchra Calosch. Btlr. Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. (5) 2 (1878), 
p. 458. 
quinquepunctata Pirgula Wichgr. Guben. Ent. Ztschr. 15 
(1921), p. 93. 
scliiitzei Opob. Tessm. Mitt. Zool. Mus. Berlin 10 (1921), 
p. 215. 
sexguttata Opob. Tessm. Mitt. Zool. Mus. Berlin 10 (1921), 
p. 215. 
spiritalis Hibr. Karsch. Ent. Nachr. 1895, p. 374. * 
venosa Hibr. Kirb. Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. (6) 18 (1896), p. 388. * 
virginea Pterocer. Hmps. Ann. S.-Afr. Mus. 3 (1905), p. 390. 
vitrea Opob. Auriv. Ann. Mus. Genov. 4 (1910), p. 529. 
