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Eu. petavia Stoll (=- patavia Swinh.). Wings white, forewing with an antemedian and postmedian pelavia. 
row of black dots edged with ochreous-yellow, between them a similar one on the cross-vein. Expanse 35 mm. 
Cape. 
Eu. sericaria Tams. Forewing lustrous white, veins, costal margin, and fringe somewhat yellowish, sericaria. 
A red dot at the cell-end and 4 red subterminal dots, 3 mm distant from the margin, between the veins 
7 and 8, 6 and 7, and two larger onjs near the tornus, above and below the anal vein. Forewdng lustrous 
and white. Body ivory-coloured or yellowish, head and legs partly orange, 2 with a cinnamon-brown anal 
tuft. Expanse: 42 to 50 mm. Kenya. The larvae make silk-like webs for their nests in the trees. 
Eu. squamosa WJcr. Forewing yellow, with numerous small spots of coarse black scales, and two squamosa. 
indistinct white-scaled oblique bands. Hindwing yellow. Expanse: 30 mm. South Africa. 
Eu. punctifera Wkr. (= gaudens Wkr.) (22 b). Body ochreous-yellow, abdomen more or less blackened, punctifera. 
Forewing varying from ochreous-yellow to dark orange, with spots of black irroration which may often be 
flown off, at the hind-margin, distal margin, and in the disc. Hindwing often somewhat lighter, of a pure 
ochreous-yellow. — South Africa, Delagoa Bay. 
Eu. nepheloptera Hmps. Body ochreous-yellow. Forewing ochreous-yellow, costal margin deeper nephclo- 
yellow, at the base black. An indistinct black subbasal band, a very broad blackish median band on the hind- pier a. 
margin, bifurcating towards the costal margin and thus leaving free a yellow r spot from the costal margin to 
the posterior angle of the cell, a subterminal row of black spots, below vein 7 distally curved. Hindwing yellow, 
powdered with brown. Expanse: 32 mm. Rhodesia. 
Eu. crocota Bsd. (= cateja Wllgr.) (22 b) is a variable species; body and forewing lighter yellow, crocoia. 
Forewing without marginal stripes, with a red cellular spot from which a red, black-powdered band extends 
to the hind-margin. There may also be some small spots of black dust before the margin. Hindwing never 
darker yellow than the forewing. In much flown specimens only the black irroration or even only a red spot 
at the cell-end is yet visible. — South and East Africa. 
Eu. putris n. sp. (28 c) is quite similar to the following iridescens, but the hindwing is pale yellowish- putris. 
white. S, $ types from East Africa in the Berlin Museum. 
Eu. iridescens Janse (22 c). Quite similar to crocata, but the hindwing is always darker yellow than the iridescens. 
forewing, and the small tibial blade is less bent. South Africa. — In xanthypopteros Wichgr., from East Africa, xanfhypo- 
tliere are only some brown scales at the cell-end, and 8 small spots in a subterminal line. pteros. 
Eu. bicolor Janse is similar to iridescens , with distinct lighter transverse lines. Hindwing orange tan- bicolor. 
coloured, the forewing with a very distinct blackish median band and a red cell-end spot. Expanse: 25 to 
29 mm. South Africa. 
Eu. pallida Ky. (22 c). Similar to crocota, but forewing with 4 to 6 lighter transverse lines on the pallida. 
yellow ground, forewing broad, margin rounded, only traces of the black median irroration, with a distinct 
red spot at the cell-end. The East African form distincta Wichgr. (22 c) has mere distinctly marked and darker distincta. 
yellow wings, particularly more yellow hindwings. — South and East Africa. 
Eu. straminicolor Janse. Wings straw-coloured. Hindwing darker. Forewdng with indistinct lighter straminico- 
transverse lines, the spot at the cell-end being orange mixed with dark, and traces of a similar median band, lor - 
sometimes also a similar terminal spot. Expanse: 34 mm. South Africa. It may be the $ of Eupr. bicolor. 
Eu. mesozona Hmps. Forewing pale yellowy the antemedian and postmedian lines lighter, distally mesozona. 
angular; median area with black and reddish scales at the cell-end and in a median band from the cell-end 
to the hind-margin. Hindwing orange-yellow. Expanse: 32 mm. Cape Colony. 
Eu. fleuriotti Gbuer. According to the description it is similar to crocota (22 b), with a red spot at fleuriotti. 
the cell-end, the other on the centre of the hind-margin. The black median band, however, begins almost at 
the base of the hind-margin. In the 2 not only the median band but also the base of the forewing is red- 
brown. Expanse: 45 to 60 mm. Madagascar. — Larva brown, with red rings, with stinging hair, living 
according to Guerin on ,,ambrevade“ (Cytisus cajanus). The Madagascans use the cocoons for the manufacture 
of a web called ,,lamba“. 
Eu. nigripuncta Janse resembles straminicolor. Forewing and hind wing of the same ground-colour, nigripunc- 
a series of black subterminal spots in the forewing. Expanse: 33 mm. South Africa. ta - 
Eu. sjostedti Auriv. Head white, body yellowish. Forewing white, with a median broad and submarginal sjostedti. 
narrower transverse band of blackish irroration. Hindwing white. Expanse: 45 mm. Cameroon. 
Eu. ochrea Btlr. In the habitus similar to Aganais insularis Bsd. Forewdng light ochreous-yellow, ochrea. 
frhige with a silky gloss. Hindwing paler, all over with a silky gloss. Body ochreous-yellowq anal tuft brown. 
Expanse: 50 mm. Madagascar. 
Eu. pygmaea Wkr. (22 c) is a small species, forewing golden yellow with an indistinct whitish antemedian pygmaca. 
and postmedian line, hindwing whitish-yellow. Forewing beneath more or less blackened. Sierra Leone to 
Cameroon, Uganda. 
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