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L. swinnyi Janse. $ blackish-brown, in the forewing the subbasal, median, postmedian, and terminal swinnyi. 
lines are marked by some dark scales. Hindwing blackish-brown. The $ which, according to Janse, belongs 
to this species, is brownish-white in the forewing, speckled with blackish, particularly at the costal margin, 
and the terminal line is composed of blackish dots. Hindwing white, at the margin slightly powdered with 
dark. Expanse about 30 mm. South Africa. 
L. nigri-pulverea Janse (23 c) is a very variable species. Forewing tan-coloured, densely powdered nigri-pulve- 
with a darker colour, the last third of the cell often lighter; in the $ a black longitudinal streak on the posterior 
margin of the cell; the species is characterized by a blackish-brown shadow right before the apex to the cell- 
end, and 1 or 2 black dots on the cross-vein. The subterminal row of spots is almost parallel to the margin, 
the terminal spots are very large and distinct. Hindwing greyish, towards the base lighter. 
L. robusta Janse. Forewing tan-coloured yellowish, at the hind-margin sometimes lighter, powdered robusta. 
with dark. Subbasal line indicated by some black scales, some black dots on the cross-vein, the post median 
line likewise only marked by some black scales, partly crescentiform, a larger spot between veins 1 b and 2. 
Subterminal line as usual projecting somewhat distally behind vein 4, its single dots not being very distinct. 
Hindwing whitish, thickly powdered with blackish, except at the base, costal margin and partly at the hind- 
margin. Expanse: 35 to 40 mm. South Africa. 
From diascia, which it otherwise resembles, discernible particularly by the dark bindwings. 
L. haematica Hmps. Body yellow, patagia pink, abdomen yellowish-white. Forewing yellow, suffused haematica. 
with pink, except at the costal margin; a blackish longitudinal streak behind the cell from the base to the 
origin of vein 2, a black spot at the cell-end, sometimes extending in the shape of a streak to the margin, a 
similar transverse line of dots, the uppermost 4 of which are placed proximad, whilst the others run slantingly 
to the posterior longitudinal streak. Hindwing semi-transparent white, fringes ochreous. Expanse: 32 mm. 
East and South Africa. —- In the West African angolensis subsp. nov. (21 f) the forewing lacks the black spot angolensis. 
on the cross-vein and the basal streak. $ type from Caconda (Angola) in the Tiing Museum. 
L. aurea Janse. Body light orange, thorax above brownish. Forewing densely powdered with yellowish- aurea. 
brown, at the hind-margin lighter. Some subbasal black scales, some at the cross-vein and at the costal margin. 
Post median line powdered with blackish, distally curved as far as vein 3, then incurved. Subterminal line 
parallel to the margin as far as vein 3, then likewise incurved. Some black scales on the margin. Hindwing 
orange-yellow, at the base lighter. Expanse: 23 mm. South Africa. — Closely allied to punctulata (23 b) from 
which it is separated by the brown powdering on the forewing. 
L. j aliens chi sp. n. (27 g). Here and in the following clarki the basal markings in the forewing only janenschi. 
consist of orange-red scales which are black at the ends. Very similar to clarki (23 c), but below the cell in 
the forewing before the rise of vein 2 a conspicuous dark spot, 2 smaller ones opposite at the hind-margin. 
Hindwing darkened by grey, particularly at the distal margin. German East Africa. $ type from Tendaguru 
(collected by Janensch). 
L. clarki Janse (23 c). Forewing whitish, densely speckled with grey, a black subbasal line. Antemedian, clarki. 
median, and postmedian lines marked by some orange-yellow and black scales. Subterminal line brownish- 
black, parallel to the margin as far as vein 3, then incurved, ending at the tornus. Terminal line marked by 
black crescents between the veins, hindwing purely white. In the lighter $ all the lines are more distinct, the 
hindwing somewhat powdered with brownish, particularly towards the margin. Expanse: 33 to 38 mm. South 
Africa. 
L. mesoxantha sp. n. (23 c). Forewing reddish ochreous in the basal half; costal margin, the oblique mesoxan- 
distal half and the hind-margin brown. An oblique, somewhat dentate subbasal and antemedian line. The dia 
postmedian line shutting off the marginal area is rather straight, very obliquely directed basally towards the 
hind-margin. In the apex a yellowish lighter area; a discal row of light-pupilled black dots, distinct at the apex 
and tornus, a submarginal row of blackish crescents. Hindwing yellowish-white or brownish-white. At the 
cell-end of the forewing a brown spot, distally to it 2 or 3 whitish-yellow dots. Cameroon. $ type from Yaunde 
in the Berlin Museum. 
L. aegra sp. n. (21 f). Body ochreous -yellow with a few red markings, beneath lighter. Forewing aegra. 
brown, subbasal and antemedian lines light yellow, margined with red, dentate. Postmedian line and marking 
of the cross-vein black. At the costal margin before the apex a light yellow area, at the tornus also somewhat 
light yellow. Hindwing yellowish-grey, under surface also of that colour. type from Nigeria in the Tiing 
Museum, paratypes also from Bingerville. 
L. amaura sp. n. (23 c) is separated from aegra by the following marks: the postmedian line of the amaura. 
forewing partly dentate, below the costal margin distally very convex, the spot at the cell-end fused with 
the costal margin, the antemedian line on 1 c with a distal tooth, the apex not with a light patch, discal dots 
not light-pupilled, without the submarginal crescents. Hindwing ochreous-yellow. Hindw ing beneath with a 
dark spot on the cross-vein, without a subapical line. East Africa. $ type from Lindi in the Berlin Museum. 
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