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sphaleroi- 
des. 
m unici pa- 
lis. 
spargata. 
cxtorla. 
nubifuga. 
miserata. 
ocellifera. 
clavis. 
fuliginosa. 
sanguined. 
gephyra. 
gloveroides. 
DASYCHIRA. By Dr. M. Hering. 
area being defined by the very convex antemedian line shows a somewhat violet tinge, the postmedian trans¬ 
verse line is dentate, dark, behind it a row of light-pupilled crescents. Hindwing dark grey. 2 S3 in the Berlin 
Museum from Spanish Guinea (type) and Cameroon. 
D. sphaleroides sp. n. (23 g) is quite similar, without yellow spots at the costal margin of the 
forewing, with a straighter postmedian line. 2 from Lolodorf, Cameroon, in the Berlin Museum. 
D. municipalis Di.st. ($ = diffusa Dist.). <$: body tan-coloured brown, abdomen pale ochreous, 
without dorsal hair-tufts; forewing pale tan-coloured, finely and irregularly powdered with blackish, darker 
at the base and cell-end, with a submarginal row of black dots and a discal series of yellow dots below and 
at the end of the cell. Hindwing still paler, at the apex somewhat darker. wings yellowish-w hite, costal 
margin narrowly pale ochreous; the whole surface irregularly spotted black, more densely in and at the end 
of the cell, sometimes in 3 rows beyond it. Expanse: 35 mm. Transvaal, Cape Colony, Natal, Nyassaland. 
D. spargata sp. n. (23 h). $ similar to municipalis. Body ochreous-yellowish, fore wing pale yellowish, 
the whole surface strewn with blackish scales which are parted by the veins and an antemedian and a postmedian 
line, without black marginal dots. Hindwing and under surface white. The distal margin of the forewing on 
vein 4 with a small projection. 9 type from Lolodorf in the Berlin Museum. Cameroon. 
D. extorta Di.st. ( = hera Drc.) (23 h). Abdomen with dorsal hair-tufts. Forewing greyish-brown, 
with irregular darker transverse lines and blackish irroration; darker spots on the cross-vein and distally to 
the very much curved postmedian transverse line, those at the costal margin between veins 4 and 6 and one 
at the tornus being particularly prominent and characterizing the species. Hindwing with a blackish spot 
on the cross-vein, in the $ yellowish-grey or whitish-grey, in the $ more brownish-grey. A very variable species. 
South and East Africa. 
D. nubifuga Holl. (23 h). Abdomen with dorsal hair-tufts. Eorewing dark brown with darker dentate 
transverse lines edged with a lighter colour. A velvety brown spot at the base, distally to it another one on 
the hind-margin, then a submarginal row of such spots, of which that before the tornus is the most distinct. 
The latter spot is in the £ mostly, in the $ invariably followed by a silvery white dot, whereby the species 
is the best recognizable. Cameroon, Gabun. 
D. miserata Holl. Body brown, tegulae paler. Forewing brown with numerous black transverse streaks, 
a submarginal zigzag line, and a terminal line of small dark streaks. Apical region much paler, where it is 
not touched by the transverse lines. At the cell-end an oval whitish macula extending to the costal margin, 
bordered with brown and crossed by 2 narrow brown median lines. Hindwing greyish, at the margin lighter. 
Expanse: 28 (<$) to 36 ( 9 ) mm. Ogove River. 
Do ocellifera Holl. (23 h). Abdomen with dorsal tufts, forewing in the basal half dark brown, bordered 
by a bluish-grey line despatching proximally in the centre an oblique branch, behind it a white transverse 
line widening at the costal margin; the rest of the wing is more olive-brown, in the apex a white zigzag line 
towards the base edged with brown, a darker indistinct submarginal line. Hindwing brownish-grey. Under 
surface straw-coloured, forewing at the base of the costal margin and before the apex brown. $ the same, larger. 
Expanse: 30 (<$) to 40 ( 9 ) mm. Cameroon. Gabun. 
D. clavis Saalm. (21 i). Forewing brown, mixed with violettish-grey and green. Subbasal line brown, 
indistinct, antemedian line olive-brown, proximally margined with light, in the cell a tooth showing towards 
the base. Macula on the cross-vein green, bordered with white, this border being pointedly extended towards 
the base. Postmedian line indistinct, from it to the apex a dark violettish-grey shadow. Subterminal line 
indistinct, distally bordered with white. Below r vein 2 a deep blackish-brown spot. Hindwing yellowish-white. 
Madagascar. 
D. fuliginosa Saalm. (24 a). Forewing blackish-brown, powdered with olive-green. Subbasal. ante¬ 
median and postmedian transverse lines black, dentate, bordered with green. Subterminal line broken up 
into spots, a dentate line as fine as a hair, distally bordered with light, on the margin. Hindwing blackish-grey. 
Madagascar. 
D. sanguinea sp. n. is quite similar to fuliginosa, but the forewing is not powdered with green but 
dark red; antemedian and postmedian bands behind less nearing each other, marginal line absent. Hindwing 
yellowish-grey, in one specimen from the Comoros blackish-grey. Madagascar. J type in the Berlin Museum. 
D. gephyra sp. n. (23 h) is likewise similar to f uliginosa , but without the green irroration, the ante¬ 
median line is double, at least behind, the space between filled up with red-brown. Postmedian line distally, 
subterminal line proximally bordered with red-brown. The species is easily recognised by a deep dark brown 
spot between the subbasal and antemedian lines below the cell. Hindwing grey. Abdomen as in the preceding 
ones with dorsal tufts. $ type from Tabora in the Berlin Museum. German East Africa, Natal, Congo. 
D. gloveroides sp. n. (23 h) is allied to glovera, the postmedian and subterminal lines are separate, 
ground-colour of forew ing greyish-white, hindwing of $, mostly also of darkened by greyish. ^9 types from 
Spanish Guinea in the Berlin Museum. 
