delicata. 
ruptilinea. 
chorista. 
citana. 
punctifera. 
peculiaris. 
basistriga. 
endophaea. 
antica. 
cameruna. 
muscosa. 
chlorophila. 
notia. 
lampra. 
gloriosa. 
166 DASYCHIRA. By Dr. M. Hering. 
D. delicata Holl. (23 e) is easily recognisable by the velvety-brown macula on the hind-margin of the 
forewing a little before the centre, a similar longitudinal streak below vein 2 and a similar one on the cross¬ 
vein and before the margin. Generally above the tornus a white spot. Cameroon to Gabun. 
D. ruptilinea Holl. (21 e). Wings more oblong than in delicata, with a velvety brown longitudinal 
ray from the base, which is interrupted on the centre of the hind-margin by a violettish-grey spot and contains 
a milky white dot in the continuation of the strongly dentate subterminal line. Hindwing light grey. Cameroon, 
Ogove. 
chorista sp. n. (21 g) resembles ruptilinea, but it is smaller, without a white spot at the tornus. 
Ivory Coast. 2 <$<$ in the Tring Museum. 
D. citana Schs. Clem. Of this species there are in the Berlin Museum 2 99 which only differ in the 
blackish hindwings from the figure, though they are certainly Notodontidae so that the species is presumably 
not to be reckoned to the Lymantriidae. Sierra Leone, Cameroon. 
D. punctifera Wkr. is scarcely to be identified from the insufficient description: forewing brown, 
with numerous white dots which are the most dense at the indistinct and irregular black undulate transverse 
lines. Submarginal line composed of black dots. Hindwing brownish ashy-grey. Expanse: 25 mm. Congo. 
D. peculiaris Btlr. Forewing blackish in the basal area, with an omega-shaped black marking which 
is partly edged with white, a white-edged proximal line, behind it with a slanting, posteriorly yellow oblique 
band which widens towards the hind-margin and is traversed by a black transverse line, a sinuate discal line 
of black moon-spots, and submarginal spots which are proximally black and distally yellowish-brown. Fringe 
blackish with a white basal line. Hindwing white; costal margin, apex, and hind-margin blackish. Forewing 
beneath ashy-grey. Hind-margin white, the streak on the cross-vein and the discal line blackish. Expanse 
about 37 mm. Madagascar. 
0. basistriga Wkr. Habitat not yet known; it may occur in Africa. Forewing brown with some black 
longitudinal stripes from the base to beyond 1 / 3 of the wing, along the distal margin grey, a brown transverse 
stripe in the discal area. Hindwing pale brown. Expanse about 25 mm. 
D. endophaea Hmps. (23 f). Body blackish-brown, mixed with red-brown and grey, like the forewing. 
An indistinct yellowish antemedian spot suffused with red-brown extends from the costal-margin to the posterior 
edge of the cell, a similar subterminal one from the costal margin to below vein 3. Subbasal, antemedian, 
and median lines indistinct; postmedian line dentate as far as vein 4, then incurved. Subterminal line marked 
by blackish-brown spots on its proximal side, then to the margin bent at veins 7 and 6, from vein 4 incurved. 
Hindwing greyish-brown. Under surface brownish ochreous with a spot on the cross-vein and 2 indistinct 
transverse lines. Expanse: 56 mm. Gold Coast, Cameroon. 
D. antica Wkr. ( = albilunulata Karsch, ) (23 e). Forewing wood-coloured-with a blackish-brown 
broad longitudinal streak and some similar longitudinal patches, below vein 2 a white crescent. Hindwing light 
greyish-brown. Cameroon. 
D. cameruna Auriv. (23 f). Forewing olive-brown with dentate black subbasal, antemedian and 
postmedian lines being edged with apple-green, and traces of a similar submarginal line. Hindwing brown. 
Cameroon, Spanish Guinea. 
D. muscosa Holl. is like the preceding species, but besides with a black basal ray and before the 
tornus with a brown spot distally bordered with silvery white. Expanse: 34 mm (<J). Gabun. 
D. chlorophila sp. n. (21 e) is separated from the similar cameruna by the following marks: the green 
markings in the forewing are more olive-coloured, not bluish-green, also more extensive, particularly between 
the veins 3 and 4 extending to the margin. The post median line terminates at the hind-margin a little behind 
its centre, not shortly before the tornus as in cameruna (23 f). 2 $9 in the Berlin Museum from Cameroon 
(type) and Togo. 
D. notia sp. n. (21 f, g) likewise resembles cameruna, ground-colour of forewing violettish-grey, but 
postmedian line hardly convex, before the macula on the cross-vein a remarkably darker spot, the crescents 
at the margin much more convex, brown spots between them and the postmedian line very distinct. Body 
darker, but tegulae at the ends whitish-grey. 9 type in the Berlin Museum from Ogove, Gabun. 
D. lampra sp. n. (21 g) is lighter than the other species resembling cameruna, in the forewing quite 
pale olive-green, with reddish-brown markings, the median area still lighter, distally to the postmedian line 
another broad, almost parallel nebulous band, approaching it at the hind-margin. Lunular spots at the margin 
finely strigiform convex, not shaded. Hindwing pale ochreous-brown. Under surface uni-coloured light ochreous. 
d 1 type from Sierra Leone in the Berlin Museum. 
D. gloriosa sp. n. (21 g) is likewise allied to cameruna, the green border of the bands on both sides 
uniform, quite light bluish-green, strongly contrasting. Antemedian band almost straight, only in the cell 
