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LAELIA. By Dr. M. Hering. 
amabilis. L. amabilis Auriv. Forewing prolonged, white; costal margin and a submarginal row of dots black. 
Hindwing white. Expanse: 25 mm. Damara-Land. 
atrisquama- L. atrisquamata Hmps. Body yellowish-white, also the forewing which is irregularly strewn with 
^ black scales which are accumulated into spots in the centre of the cell and the tornus. Hindwing white, feebly 
yellowish. Expanse up to 56 mm. Gold Coast. 
discolepia. L. discolepia Hmps. Similar to atrisquamata, but with large black spots at the cross-vein, at the 
hind-margin and distal margin more intensely black-scaled. Expanse: 50 mm. Sierra Leone, Togo. 
unipuncta- L. unipunctata Mschlr. (23 a). Large and with broad white wings. Forewing with a black dot in 
ta • the centre of the cell. Aburi. 
straminea. L. straminea Hmps. Body oclireous-yellow, partly irrorated with red-brown. Abdomen yellowish- 
white. Forewdng ochreous-yellow, powdered with reddish. Antemedian line indistinct, red-brown; brown 
dots in and below the posterior angle of the cell and beyond the anterior angle and below vein 7. Postmedian 
line red-brown, very slanting, straight. A slanting subterminal row of brown dots. Hindwing yellowish-white 
with a red-brown hue at the centre of the distal margin. Expanse: 50 mm. South Nigeria. 
sordida. L. sordida Mschlr. Forewing yellowish-brown, powdered with blackish-brown, the light ground¬ 
colour indistinctly and irregularly showing through, particularly distally to the cross-vein. Hindwing dark 
grey. Aburi. 
gigantea. L. gigantea Hmps. Body yellow, powdered with red-brown. Forewing the same, scantily powdered 
with black. Basal half paler, except at the costal margin and hind-margin. Antemedian line indistinct, brown, 
dentate. A spot of black scales above the rise of vein 7, two slanting brown post.median lines and 2 similar 
subterminal lines, a brown shadow from the apex to the hind-margin behind the postmedian line. Hindwing 
ochreous-yellow, somewhat reddish, with a brown spot at the cross-vein, a brown marginal line, the marginal 
area powdered with blackish. Expanse: 82 mm. Cameroon, Uganda. 
infra da. L. infracta B.-Bak. (23 c). The identification of this species and of the following one is rather difficult. 
The distal margin of the forewing is quite straight. Forewing pale grey with a dark longitudinal stripe through 
the cell and between the veins 5 and 6 to the subterminal row of black dots; the whole wing is strewn 
with fine ash-grey scales. Hindwing greyish-white. Expanse: 25 mm. It is more powdered with ash-grey 
than the following is. Togo, Cameroon, Congo to South and South-East Africa. 
This species and the following separated from subrosea (23 b) and xyleutis by densely scaled, not hyaline 
fore wings. 
diascia. L. diascia Hmps. Forewing more oclireous, more intensely poAvdered with blackish-brown, with 
blackish longitudinal stripes which are much more distinct than in infracta, particularly also one in the fold. 
The black submarginal dots are distally pupilled with a somewhat lighter colour. Otherwise like infracta, 
perhaps of the same species. Expanse: 30 to 40 mm. South and East Africa, Abyssinia, Cameroon. 
flava. L. flava B.-Bak. is a large species. Body yellow, wings pale chrome-coloured, forewing powdered 
with yellow on the pale ground, AAihereby it appears to be coarser. Hindwing paler than forewing. Expanse: 
62 mm. Lagos. 
fulvicosta. L. fulvicosta Hmps. Body yellowish-brown, abdomen dark greyish-brown. Forewing dark red-brown, 
costal margin and fringe yellowish-brown. Hindwing semihyaline red-brown. Expanse: 22 mm. North Nigeria. 
rogersi. L. rogersi B.-Bak. Body whitish-grey, forewing ochreous grey, with 3 parallel, slanting, undulate, 
darker transverse lines. Base paler grey. Hindwing somewhat hyaline, whitish. Expanse: 35 mm. British 
East Africa. 
aethiopica. L. aethiopica B.-Bak. Body ochreous-yellow, abdomen paler. Wings pale ochreous, forewing with a 
small orange spot on the cross-vein and a similar one iir the fold of the Aving near its centre. Expanse: 30 mm. 
North-Eastern Rhodesia, Uganda, Nigeria. 
subviridis. L. subviridis Janse. Body blackish mixed with green; forewing olive-brown, densely po\A T dered with 
blackish and apple-green so that a dark green colour predominates. The following markings are black: 
a subbasal transverse line, an antemedian line which is double towards the costa, angular on all the veins and 
folds, a median one likewise sharply angled, a spot on the cross-vein, a postmedian transverse line, in its anterior 
portion convex, a subterminal broad indistinct transverse shadow, the terminal line again narrow, on each 
vein dentate. Hindwing blackish-brown. Expanse: 36 mm. South Africa. 
ochracea. L. ochracea Snell. Wings pale ochreous-yellowish, hyaline, foreAving with a broken transverse line 
of blackish crescents, distally to the cell, beginning at the apex and ending before the centre of the hind-margin. 
Expanse about 40 mm. Lower Guinea. (It is doubtfully ranged here.) 
