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LAELIA. By Dr. M. Draiidt. 
basibr un- 
nea. 
melaxantha. 
barsineides. 
lignicolor. 
incerta. 
ordinata. 
solida. 
diaphanel- 
la. 
leucolepis. 
bacchans. 
maculata. 
euproctina. 
pactor. 
Jcitchingi. 
soloides. 
micans. 
basipuncta. 
L. basibrunnea Holl. (23 c). Bands running in the distal half as in amaura, the antemedian and 
subbasal lines quite indistinct. Hindwing whitish-grey, beneath without a dot on the cross-vein, but with a 
subapical line. Cameroon, Gabun. 
L. melaxantha Wkr. (23 a). Forewing reddish-ochreous; hindwing lighter yellow, with a broad black 
distal margin. Transvaal, also in India. 
L. barsineides Holl. is doubtfully placed here. Body yellowish, abdomen above brown. Forewing 
pale yellow with ferruginous brown markings; a broad subbasal band, an oval ring at the cell-end and above 
it a smaller spot at the costal margin. A broad, irregularly bent and dentate submarginal band from the apex 
to the hind-margin, distally to it feeble brown marginal lines. Hindwing semi-diaphanous pale brown. Expanse: 
23 mm. Ogove. 
L. lignicolor Holl. (23 d). Body wood-coloured like the forewing, with a darker basal third, a dark 
spot at the cell-end and a dark straight stripe coming from the apex and extending to the centre of the hind- 
margin ; a parallel stripe between it and the base is indicated in the posterior lighter portion of the wing. Distally 
to the former stripe an irregular row of dark dots. Hindwing varying from ochreous-yellow to reddish-brown. 
Under surface pale tan-coloured with a dark spot on the cross-vein and some subterminal spots. Expanse: 
27 to 40 mm. Ogove, Spanish Guinea, Togo, East Africa. 
L. iticerfa sp. n. (28 b) is quite similar to lignicolor, larger, with an obtuser apex of the forewing, 
a more oblique subterminal line, a darker hindwing with a brown median spot. type from Wassaw in the 
Tring Museum. Gold Coast. This species and lignicolor may be better ranged in Dasychira. 
L. ordinata Karsch. (23 d). Forewing ochreous-yellow, with a series of bright red dots the largest of 
which is that below vein 2. Hindwing yellow, somewhat more hyaline. Saadani, German East Africa. 
L. solida Karsch. (23 a). Forewing blackish-brown with a darker dentate postmedian stripe and a 
large light wood-coloured bottle-shaped spot which is narrower towards the hind-margin. Hindwing brownish- 
grey. Togo. 
L. diaphanella Mab. Eorewing white, hyaline and feebly hued with blackish. Costal margin black, 
fringe blackish. Hindwing at the distal margin somewhat darkened. Body whitish-yellow, collar yellow. Legs 
yellow, tarsi blackish. Madagascar. 
L. leucolepis Mab. is likewise doubtfully ranged here. Somewhat larger than the preceding species, 
wings of a pure white, densely scaled. Costal margin of forewing narrow black like the fringes of both wings. 
Head and vertex yellow, frons black. Central Africa. 
L. bacchans Karsch (23 a). Forewing reddish-brown with a double antemedian line and a single 
submarginal line, as well as a broad postmedian band and macula at the cross-vein being darker. Hindwing 
yellow with a broad black distal margin. Togo. — In maculata Wichgr., from Sierra Leone, a large black spot 
is at the cell-end of the hindwing. 
L. euproctina Aur. (21 d) has entirely the habitus of an Euproctis, but the generic marks of Laelia. 
Eorewing greyish-yellowish, with 4 orange-yellow transverse stripes and a similar marginal line, between them 
4stripes of blackish powdering. Hindwing yellow. Yola (West Africa). The species was bred from thin yellowish 
cocoons that were fastened to the trunks of Adansonia digitata. 
IL pactor sp. n. (21 e) likewise resembles Euproctis. Eorewing light yellow with three orange-yellow 
oblique stripes, the two basal ones distally broken in an acute angle, a more indistinct orange-yellow marginal 
line. Hindwing paler. $ lighter yellow. Natal. types in the Berlin Museum. 
L. kitchingi B.-Bak. is questionably ranged here. Head and collar orange-yellow, thorax whitish, 
abdomen yellowish. Wings purely white with a black dot on the cross-vein. Eorewing with a black costal- 
marginal dot near the base, half of the cell being indistinctly dark-powdered. Expanse: 48 mm. Congo. 
L. soloides Holl. Body yellowish, abdomen beneath with 2 rows of black spots. Eorewing white, at 
the costal margin and apex darkened, both wings at the cell-end with a round black spot. Expanse: 44 mm. 
Congo. 
L. micans Wichgr. Body ochreous-yellow, anal tuft brown. Eorewing lustrous creamy, at the cell-end 
a brownish-black spot. In area 1 b at the first and second thirds two delicate yellow^ spots. Hindwing lustrous 
white. Expanse: 42 mm. German East Africa. 
L. basipuncta Joic. & Talb. (21 d). Body ochreous-yellowish, wings dull white, forewing with a 
small black subbasal dot on vein 11 and a larger one on the cross-vein, hindwing with a large spot at the cell- 
end black, otherwise also white. Uganda. 
