LAELAROA. By Dr. M. Hering. 
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L. croperoides sp. n. (21 g). As to the wing-contours similar to a Cropera, but structurally to a Laelia. croperoides. 
Body orange-yellow, abdomen above white, behind yellow. Forewing greyish-white, costal margin ochreous- 
yellowish, hindwing white, both diaphanous. Fringes of an intense gloss. Madagascar. $ type in the Berlin 
Museum. 
L. eos sp. n. (21 g). Wings broad and short, body pinkish ochreous-yellow. Forewing of a beautiful cos. 
pink, tlie postmedian line of dots below vein 4 distally bent, as far as the anal fold in about % of it hemoclirome. 
Hindwing pink, towards the base hyaline. Under surface uni-coloured pinkish ochreous. German East Africa. 
$ type from Dar-es-Salaam in the Berlin Museum. 
L. siga sp. n. (28 g). Body and forewing orange-yellow, powdered with hemochrome. In the forewing siya. 
a red subbasal line, a likewise dark antemedian and postmedian line. Hindwing pale pinkish-yellow. $ type 
from Mukenge in the Berlin Museum. (Pogge). 
L. splendlda S'p. n. (27 g). Body and wings of a magnificent orange-yellow, forewing scantily strewn splendida. 
with blackish, a distinct black macula at the cell-end, fringes more or less extensively blackish. Hindwing 
with traces of a black subapical band. $ paler, forewing onty powdered with ferruginous brown, hindwing 
still lighter, all the veins darker. types in the Berlin Museum from German East Africa. 
L. pallidula sp. n. (28 a). Similar to splendida, much paler, whitish-yellow; in pure specimens the pallidula. 
forewing is very intensely powdered with blackish, the subbasal area and the postmedian band not being 
powdered; $ similar, forewing powdered with blackish, without the dark spot on the cross-vein. types 
in the Berlin Museum. German East Africa. It may be a season-form of splendida. 
L. leucoptera sp. n. (27 g). Habitus of splendida, also all the markings are the same, but the ground- leucoptem. 
colour of the wings is white, slightly tinted yellowish. The black powdering in the forewing is often absent, 
type from German East Africa in the Berlin Museum. 
L. sericaria sp. n. (28 g) is closely allied to unipunctata Mschlr., but the forewing is in the centre sericaria. 
of the cell without a black dot. Forewing white with a silky gloss, with black (sometimes absent) scales at the 
cell-end and some similar ones in the marginal area. Hindwing of a duller white. $ type from Uganda in the 
Berlin Museum, some more from Togo. — The S3 without black powdering recall Stilpnotia luteipes which, 
however, is without an accessory cell in the forewing and has only 1 pair of spurs on the hind tibiae. 
L. citrona sp. n. (28 a). Forewing deep lemon-coloured with a blackish-brown dot in the centre of citrona. 
the cell and a similar large macula at the cell-end. Fringe in the anterior half blackish-brown. Hindwing orange- 
yellow. Under surface orange-yellow. $ type from Bipindi, Cameroon, in the Berlin Museum. To this species 
probably belongs a from Spanish Guinea with much paler wings. 
L. protecta sp. n. Fore wing grey with a fine blackish antemedian line, a broad blackish macula at protecta. 
the cell-end and a black postmedian line. Distally to it a broader band, the space between them lighter pale. 
Before the margin a series of internerval streaks. Hindwing yellowish-grey, on the cross-vein and before the 
margin powdered with blackish. <$ type from the Bang-Manenguba Mts. in the Berlin Museum. Cameroon 
L. pseudolacipa sp. n. (27 g). Body white, abdomen ocbreous-yellowish with darker segmental, pseudolaci- 
margins. Forewing white with a black dot at the cross-vein and a subterminal row of dots. Hindwing grey, P a - 
at the margin lighter, beneath with a dark dot on the cross-vein, and a subterminal row of dots. $ type from 
Uhehe in the Berlin Museum. German East Africa. 
L. hyalinula sp. n. (28 e). Body whitish, wings quite purely white, almost transparent, with an intense hyalinula. 
gloss. $ type from German East Africa in the Berlin Museum. 
62. Genus : Laelnroa gen. nov. 
Structurally rather consistent with Laelia and Dasychira, but in the hindwing vein 8 is for a long distance 
fused with the cell. Hind tibiae with 2 pair of spurs. Forewing with an accessory cell, vein 11 separate, 10, 
7 and the forked 8 + 9 from the apex of the accessory cell, vein 6 separated from it. In the hindwing 3 + 4 
and 6 + 7 forked, vein 5 rising far before the posterior cell-angle. Genotype : 
L. flavimargo sp. n. (28 e). Body ochreous-yellow, abdomen above brown. Forewing brown, costal flavimargo. 
margin and distal margin yellow, otherwise scantily strewn with whitish-blue scales. Hindwing and under 
surface brown, fringe (and costal margin of forewing) yellow. ^ type from Ogruga, Niger, in the Tring Museum. 
