achatina. 
castor. 
pollux. 
daphne. 
daphnoides. 
scitzi. 
lignea. 
pheosia. 
basalts. 
168 DASYCHIRA. By Dr. M. Hering. 
blackish line. Fringe blackish, at the veins intermixed with bluish-white. Hindwing whitish-grey, at the apex 
darker. Dorsal tufts blackish-brown. 2 $$ from Spanish Guinea in the Berlin Museum. 
D. achatina sp. n. (26 h). Forewing beautifully lilac-grey with a rosy tinge. Subbasal line ferruginous 
brown, antemedian line varying from whitish to yellowish with a sharp distal tooth in the cell. At the same 
place with it a ferruginous-brown oblicpie band begins, expanding below the cell into a large ferruginous-brown 
spot at the hind-margin, the centre of which is parted by a darker line and which is continued to the base 
of vein 2. The macula at the cross-vein is rosy, parted darker by transverse lines. The postmedian line 
is dentate, brown, proximally shaded dark, behind it a more or less distinct row of streaks, in which there is 
below the costal margin a large velvety brown spot, still farther before it a costal-marginal line. Submarginal 
line of dark, proximally light streaks, marginal area behind it rosy, fringe brown. Hindwing brownisli-ochreous, 
at the margin darker. Dorsal tufts large, ferruginous-brown. $ type from Spanish Guinea, $ type from Togo, 
Misa Hill, in the Berlin Museum. 
D. castor sp. n. (21 i). Body varying between light and dark grey with black dorsal tufts. Forewing 
violettish-grey, intermixed with greenish. Beneath lea velvety black dot distally light-edged. The antemedian 
and median lines are often indistinct; at the cell-end a black crescent, distally open, proximally bordered with 
light, from which an oblicpie pale yellowish shadow extends to the costal margin, in which there are beside 
the distal half of the macula 2 more black spots; the space behind it as far as the straight and oblique postmedian 
line is darkened. Before the margin a fine black line, below vein 2 suddenly expanded into 2 velvety black 
spots. Hindwing grey. type from Cameroon, $ type from Togo, also specimens from Liberia, in the Berlin 
Museum. 
D. pollux sp. n. (21 i) is separated from castor by the following marks: the basal dot of the forewing 
is absent, at the cross-vein there are only 4 black dots, the space behind them is little lighter, behind the post- 
median line a row of dots, below vein 2 therein 2 particularly large dots. Hindwing of a variable colouring. 
S type from Lolodorf, Cameroon (Berlin Museum), paratypes from the Ivory Coast (Tring Museum). 
D. daphne sp. n. (23 f, 27 b). Body varying from whitish to brownish-grey, dorsal tufts blackish. 
Forewing whitish or dark grey, subbasal line blackish, distally to it at the hind-margin often a blackish shadow; 
antemedian line double, filled up with ferruginous-brown. Tne postmedian line is very much curved, with a 
long proximal borv beneath vein 2, then distally obliquely to the hind-margin, in the $ in the anterior portion 
very much expanded like a spot. The submarginal line is fine blackish. Macula at the cell-end whitish, edged 
with dark. Hindwing in the <$ white, in the $ light grey. types in the Berlin Museum. German East Africa. 
D. daphnoides sp. n. (27 e) is similar to daphne, but the ground-colour of the forewing is olive-greenish 
and brown, at the margin violettish-grey; antemedian litre single, postmedian line without a strong proximal 
bow beneath vein 2. Macula at the cell-end brownish, hindwing in the $ darker grey, beneath with a discal 
dot and transverse line. $ type from Tendaguru in the Berlin Museum. 
D. seifzi sp. n. (23 f). Forewing olive-green, powdered with brownish, macula at the cell-end proxi¬ 
mally bordered with dark brown, behind it a white space which crosses yet the postmedian band and is broadly 
extended towards the hind-margin below veins 3 and 2, but does not reach to vein 1 a. Distally to the 
postmedian line a dentate blackish-brown transverse line, at the tornus distally broadly bordered with white; 
a submarginal blackish line. Hindwing brownish-grey. Body grey. $ type from North-West Cameroon in 
the Senckenberg Museum. 
D. lignea Btlr. Forewing pinkish-blackish, pale, the proximal half ash-grey, costal margin green- 
spotted; a longitudinal streak at the posterior edge of the cell is deep black, of the same colour are a streak 
on the cross-vein and internerval streaks at the margin; a spot at the apex and one before it, a line at the centre 
of the distal margin, and a triangular spot at the tornus are white, distally narrowly edged with black. 
Hindwing greyisli-white, with an indistinct dark submarginal line. Body yellowish-brown, prothorax and tegulae 
white-haired. Wings beneath pale ash-grey, the spot on the cross-vein, the discal line, and the submarginal 
line are blackish. Forewing with 3 short black stripes before the apex. Expanse about 35 mm. Madagascar. 
D. pheosia Hmps. (23 g). Head and thorax grey, mixed with white and red-brown. Ab do men reddish - 
ochreous, basally with a black dorsal line. Forewing reddish-ochreous, a red-brown streak below the basal 
half of the costal margin, 2 similar streaks in the cell. A curved dark red-brown band from the base along 
vein 1, behind the centre upturned, extending to the margin as far as vein 7; a thin double streak above it above 
the centre of the costal margin, at the end of vein 1 bent upward. Tornal area grey. Cellular macula feebly 
defined, thin red-brown streaks below the costal margin before the apex, a thin black marginal line. Hindwing 
yellowish-white. In the (figured) $ the hindwing is powdered with brown. Expanse: 42 to 44 mm. Gold Coast, 
Cameroon. 
D. basalis WJcr. (23 g). Forewing with a light brown basal spot surrounded by blackish-brown; distally 
to it a curved brown transverse line. The distal portion of the wing is greyish-brown, towards the costal margin 
whitish, with a very undulate post median and sub marginal line, and a brown spot at the costal margin before 
the apex. Hindwing white. $ much lighter, whitish-grey, almost hyaline. Sierra Leone, Cameroon. 
