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DASYCHIRA. Von Dr. M. Hering. 
gwelila. 
albibasalis. 
(jabunica. 
gonophora. 
curvivirga- 
ta. 
umbricolo- 
ra. 
albinoiata. 
striata. 
obscura. 
brunnei- 
costa. 
cedestis. 
black line with paler clots. An oblique row of blackish-brown dots parallel to the second line; the lower space 
between the first line and the band is lighter ochreous than the rest of the wings. Hindwing pale ochreous- 
grev. Body ochreous. Expanse: 34 mm. Old Calabar: Niger River. 
D. gwelila Swh. Body and forewing dark grey, almost black, veins somewhat prominent. Feeble 
traces of an antemedian, a postmedian and a discal transverse line; a submarginal row of more distinct black 
dots close at the distal margin. Hindw ing white, forewing beneath grey, posteriorly white, body and legs white, 
legs with brown stripes. Expanse about 35 mm. Gwelil, British East Africa, also in German South West Africa. 
D. albibasalis Holl. Body above dark brown, beneath lighter. Forewing reddish-brown with a sub- 
marginal band which is darker clouded, and a dark brown longitudinal ray about from the base behind the 
cell to the cell-end, where it is interrupted by an indistinct paler brown ring, then continued beyond the cell 
to the costal margin which is reached at %. At the base an oval white spot and a series of similar white spots 
at the apex. Hindwing pale grey. Expanse: 23 ($) to 30 ($) mm. Ogove River. 
D. gahunica Holl. Body dark brown, abdomen pale yellowish-brown, with brown dorsal tufts, under 
surface yellowish with a brown lateral stripe. In the forewing the distal angle is produced and the hind-margin 
somewhat convex near the base. Fore wing wood-coloured brown, in the centre clouded dark with a bent white 
band in the centre of the wing from the costal margin to 1 / 3 of the hind-margin. This band is widened beyond 
the cell and has there on its outside a light line proximally bordered with brown which terminates at 
the origin of vein 4 in a light white dot. The marginal area with a few' whitish spots at the costal margin and 
hind-margin. On the distal margin a row of black dots. Hindwing yellowish-white. Expanse: 24 mm. Gabun. 
D. gonophora Holl. Forewing brown, in the cell and at the costal margin darker, crossed by a broad 
dark brown line rising before the apex, where it is broadest, and extending almost to the centre of the hincl- 
margin, where it is continued parallel to the hind-margin almost to the base. [It is proximally bordered by 
an interrupted row of erect dark brown velvety scales. At the base a longitudinal ray of the same colour. At 
the distal area the forewing is darker clouded, with minute spots of black erect scales; a small triangular spot 
is situate near the transverse line. On the distal margin a row of small spots of dark erect scales. Hindwing 
grey, at the distal margin the darkest. Expanse: 33 mm. Gabun. 
D. curvivirgata KarscJi. (23 i) is similar to gonophora, but the transverse band of the forewiug much 
lighter than the ground-colour, varying between yellowish-brown and whitish, on the inside not bordered by 
velvety brown scales, only two such spots or streaks in the cell and a longitudinal streak at the base. The small 
black spots at the distal margin are absent. Only in the $ the hindwing is grey, in the yellowish-white with 
a grey indistinct submarginal line. Togo, Cape Colony. 
D. umbricolora Hmps. (23 i) is similar to the following species, smaller, all the transverse lines indistinct, 
a thin white streak on 1 c, connecting the antemedian and postmeclian lines. Expanse: 32 to 34 mm. South 
Nigeria. 
D. albinotata Holl. (23 i). Body brown, antennae with a white basal dot, abdomen apparently without 
dorsal tufts. Forewing dark brown with indistinct darker spots and streaks and above and below the origin 
of vein 2 with a bluish-white macula. About in 1 / z of the cell a white spot. At the margin a row of light inter- 
nerval spots. Hindwing blackish-grey. Cameroon, Gabun. 
D. striata Holl. is said to resemble albinotata c ' even to be identical with it. Forewing with a distinct 
ring of erect scales at the cell-end, behind it with a dark transverse line being on both sides bordered with 
white. Expanse: 38 mm. Gabun. 
D. obscura Holl. is said to resemble the preceding ones, forewing brown with small yellowish and 
whitish spots near the base and at the hind-margin, the largest at the tornus. A similar row of spots before 
the apex. Basal, median, and submarginal transverse lines dark, partly on both sides bordered with light. 
Hindwing brown with a dark spot on the cross-vein, and indistinct median and submarginal lines. Under 
surface yellowish-brow n with a dark spot on the cross-vein, filled up with light brown. Expanse : 38 mm. Ogove. 
D. brmtraeicosta Holl. (24 b). Abdomen with dorsal tufts. Forewing greyish-yellowish with a blackish 
costal-marginal spot which also occupies part of the cell and sometimes coheres with a similar one at the 
hind-margin, distally bordered with white. In the light basal area a dark spot. Marginal area red-brown w ith a 
black, distally light-edged spot before the centre of the distal margin, by which the species is easily recognised. 
Hindwing yellowish-grey. Cameroon, Gabun. 
D. cedestis sp. n. (24a) chiefly differs from strigidentata in the following marks: orange-red spots 
at the margin of the forewing absent, the space behind the 2nd postmedian band being lighter lilac-grey, sub- 
marginal line distinct, hindwing without a black spot at the cross-vein, also beneath with a black submarginal 
band. 2 ^ from Spanish Guinea in the Berlin Museum. 
