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L. actuosa sp. n. (21 f) is similar to the following species, forewing somewhat broader. Body greyish- actuosa. 
white. Forewing whitish-grey, with a somewhat pink tinge, lustrous, intensely powdered with blackish particularly 
at the costal margin, a broad streak from the cell-end almost to the apex and a subterminal line. Marginal 
dots black. Hindwing grey, basally lighter, fringe white. Forewing beneath grey with darker veins. <y, $ 
types from Windhoek, German South-West Africa, in the Berlin Museum. 
L. intermissa sp. n. (21 f) resembles hemippa, but the veins are not powdered with grey. The costal intermissa. 
margin of the forewing is ochreous-yellow, at the cross-vein 2 black dots, under surface the same; hindwing 
purely white, abdomen at the end ochreous-yellow. $ type from Saadani in the Berlin Museum. German 
East Africa. 
L. hemippa Swh. (23 b, Vol. X, 42 f) is remarkable by very narrow wings with an oblique distal margin, hemippa. 
otherwise with the marks of the genus. Forewing lustrous white, veins powdered with brownish like the hind- 
margin, fringe of a pure white. Hindwing yellowish-grey with a white fringe. Beneath the forewing is yellowish- 
grey, the hindwing white. East Africa, to the south of Kenya. 
L. impura sp. n. (21 f). Wing-contours as in hemippa, but forewing dull greyish-white, fringe speckled, impura. 
hindwing purely white. Forewing beneath grey, not ochreous-yellowish, abdomen white. Abyssinia, d 1 ? types 
in the Berlin Museum. The form from British East Africa shows the hindwing at the margin darkened by greyish, 
the abdomen is grey; — promissa subsp. nov. $ type from Kibwezi in the Tring Museum. promissa. 
L. lavia Swh. (23 b). Body and wings dark brown, forewing with the usual postmedian, distally lavia. 
convex row of dots and a spot on the cross-vein blackish. Hindwing scantily powdered, particularly basally, 
cross-vein darker. British East Africa, Angola. 
L. hypoleucis Hmps. Body pink, abdomen at the end and body beneath white. Forewing claret- liypoleucis. 
coloured pink with a dark longitudinal streak at the posterior edge of the cell proceeding from the base and 
extending distally bent to the apex. Costal margin at the base and apex whitish. A small spot in the centre, 
a larger one at the end of the cell; a narrow zigzag line from % of the costal margin to the centre of the 
hind-margin, below the cell dentated in the shape of a V, the apex of the V distally. Sometimes a bent- 
basal transverse lines occurs. Hindwing and both wings beneath white, fringe of forewing beneath speckled 
brown and grey. Expanse: 33 to 45 mm. Ogove. 
L. punctulata Btlr. (23 b). Body and wings of an intense orange-yellow colour, forewing with the punctulata. 
usual post-median row of dots, sometimes powdered somewhat blackish. South Africa. 
L. albida Hmps. Body ochreous-yellow; abdomen white, beneath yellowish. Forewing yellowish- albida. 
white, costal margin basally darker. Hindwing semi-hyaline white. Expanse: 34 mm. South Nigeria. It is 
said to resemble Crorema adspersa (20 f), but it lacks the dots on the forewing of the latter. 
The following two species ought to be placed to Crorema, because vein 4 in 
the hind wing is nearer to 5 t- h an to 3. 
L. setinioides Holl. (23 b) is lighter and larger than the preceding species, forewing straw-coloured setinioides. 
yellow, beside the normal row of dots another small spot right distally to the cross-vein, hindwing lighter, 
whitish-yellow. From Gabun to South and East Africa. The species, according to Janse, is said to be identical 
with Crorema fulvinotata Btlr. 
L. evanescens Hmps. (23 b) is similar to setinioides, the postmedian row of dots is thin, below vein 3 evancscens. 
inwardly curved, where there are only yet two dots. The dot below the centre of the cell is absent. Uganda, 
German East Africa. 
L. bethuneana Strd. (= acuta B.-Bah.). Body red-brown, abdomen dull whitish-grey. Forewing bethuneana. 
pale reddish-brown, sometimes in the fold and the postmedian area lighter, with a dark grey stripe from the 
costal margin near the apex about to the centre of the cell. Hindwing pale straw-coloured. Expanse: 36 mm. 
Uganda. 
L. nigripes Hmps. Body yellowish, anterior and middle legs in front black. Forewing diaphanous nigripes. 
yellowish-white, costal margin and base more yellow. Hindwing diaphanous yellowish-white. Expanse: 26 mm. 
North Nigeria. Is said to be likewise allied to Crorema adspersa (20 f). 
L. fracta Schs. & Clem. (23 c). Forewing grey with an oblique straight row of dots before the margin, fracta. 
from which a brownish shadow extends proximad to the cell. Hindwing greyish-white. Sierra Leone, Cameroon. 
L. rivularis Hmps. Body yellowislr-brown, abdomen brownish-white. Forewing pale yellowish-brown, a rivularis. 
black antemedian dot below the cell, an indistinct brown line from *4 of the costal margin, sharply bent distally, 
extending to the rise of vein 3 and to the liind-margin, meeting with a slanting stripe from the costal margin 
behind the middle. A slanting straight line from the costal margin near the apex to the centre of the hind- 
margin. The area before it between the veins 2 to 5 more white. A brown subterminal line contains a row of 
black dots. Hindwing white, powdered with yellowish-brown, with a subterminal row of spots. Sometimes 
the ground-colour of the forewing is yellow and that of the hindwing yellowish-white. Expanse: 48 mm. Uganda. 
— In the form maseniensis Strd. the forewing is yellow, the hindwing is yellowish-white. 
