DASYCHIRA. By Dr. M. Hering. 
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Do omissa sp. n. (24 a). Markings as in gloveroides, postmedian area very much darkened by brown, omissa. 
$ type from Mt. Misa in the Berlin Museum. Togo, Ivory Coast. 
D. glovera Swh. Body and forewing somewhat reddish yellowish-white, forewing basally as far as glovera. 
1 / 3 olive-brown, defined by a brown line, with two dents distally. In this brown area a dark subbasal line 
and a large yellowish-white spot. A fine, sinuate brown transverse line being incurved on vein 2 and then running 
slantingly distally to the hind-margin. A brown stripe crosses it on vein 5, being incurved on vein 2 and running 
semicircularly to the costal margin. Before the apex a brown spot. Hindwing and abdomen white, the latter with 
dorsal tufts. Expanse: 35 mm. Uganda. 
D. umbrensis B.-Bak. Body and wings dark brown. Forewing with three black dots in the shape umbrensis. 
of a reverted triangle at the cell-end, with an irregular, strongly dentate postmedian line and a submarginal 
row of internerval dots. Expanse: 43 to 48 mm. Uganda. 
D. rocana Swh. Forewing basally as far as 1 / 3 greenish-grey, partly mixed with white, defined by rocana. 
a vertical straight black transverse line. The rest of the forewing is olive brown, powdered with grey. A fine 
sinuate transverse line from 4 / 5 of the costal margin, at vein 3 incurved, extends to the centre of the wing, then 
it turns distally to the hind-margin near the tornus. A short black subapical line at the costal margin is connected 
with the sinuate submarginal line. Terminal line grey. Hindwing white, abdomen grey, dorsal tufts black. 
Expanse of wings: 45 mm. Coomassie. 
D. basilinea sp. n. (24 a) is similar to rocana, basal area of forewing with 3 black longitudinal streaks, basilinea. 
otherwise as rocana. $ type from Cameroon in the Berlin Museum. 
D. pytna Drc. Forewung tan-coloured yellowish-brown, at the costal margin darker; a small black pytna. 
streak at the base, a large greyish-white spot at the apex, below it 2 or 3 brown spots. Fringe speckled light 
and dark. Hindwing pale greyish-brown, two dark brown spots at the margin. Expanse about 40 mm. 
Gambia. 
D. maligna Btlr. Eorewing at the base whitish-brown, the proximal third black; a broad dark brown maligna. 
belt from the costal margin to the hind-margin; the costal margin is blackish-brown from the base to the outside 
of this median band, so that the light colouring of the basal area only consists of a large slanting spot. The 
distal area is brown, the apical portion whitish with an oblique dark brown spot at the costal margin; a submar¬ 
ginal row of black, pale-edgecl spots, a terminal row of small black dots. Hindwing whitish-brown with two 
indistinctly bent dark discal stripes, the submarginal stripe being rather broad at the apex. Expanse: 33 mm. 
Madagascar. 
D. phasiana Btlr. (23 i). Forewing with a brown basal area in which there are darker longitudinal phasiana. 
streaks, particularly towards the hind-margin, the median area is dark bluish-grey in front, and greenish behind, 
marginal area dark bluish-grey for the greatest part, at some submarginal places lighter yellowish-grey, 
particularly a spot at the tornus. Hindwing greyish-whitish, towards the margin darker. Madagascar. 
D. thermoplaga Hmps. Head and thorax pale brownish-grey with a red-brown longitudinal stripe, thermopla- 
Abdomen grey, dorsal tufts black. Forewing olive-grey, powdered with red-brown. A red-brown spot at the 
costal margin at the base, below the cell distally prolonged. Conical red-brown spots at the centre of the costal 
margin, enclosing a black streak on the cross-vein, and on the hind-margin. Small red-brown subterminal 
dots at the costal margin, below veins 5 and 2 and on the hind-margin. Hindw ing ochreous yellowish, powdered 
with brown. Fringes of both wings spotted brown. Expanse: 30 mm. Sierra Leone. 
D. whitei Drt. (23 i). F 'orewdng varying from brownish-grey to blackish-grey, with a light brown whitei. 
longitudinal streak on the hind-margin, which at the place where it touches the median area formed by the 
antemedian and postmedian lines projects anteriorly and then extends rather broad to the margin; another 
light streak at the apex. Hindwing brownish-grey or blackish-grey. Old Calabar to South Africa. Abdomen 
with dorsal tufts. 
D. goodii Holl. (23 i). Forewing blackish red-brown with bluish-white markings at the hind-margin goodii. 
and distal margin, in the cell and at the transverse lines. Hindwing brow n. Abdomen with dorsal tufts. Cameroon, 
Ashanti. 
D. libella Swh. Palpi ochreous-yellow and brown. Head and collar white with a few brown hairs, libella. 
Forewing greyish-white powdered with brownish-grey, more densely on a thin antemedian line and a broad 
median band; the latter contains a thick black line on the proximal side and a similar distal one which is sinuate 
and above the centre distally curved. A similar paler grey line is situate distally to it, as well as traces of a 
similar sub marginal line. Hindwing white, abdomen grey with dorsal tufts. Under surface of wings almost 
w r hite. Expanse: 35 mm. Ashanti. 
D. cromptoni Swh. (24 d). Forewing ochreous-yellowish; two black subbasal spots, a dark brown cromptoni. 
spot in the cell, a white moon-spot on the cross-vein with one small white spot each above and below it, a 
vertical antemedian somewhat dentate transverse line, a postmedian brown band from the centre of the hind- 
margin straight to % of the costal margin, where it is somew hat incurved ; in this band we notice a fine dentate 
