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D. strigidentata B.-Bak. (24 b). Yellowish-brown, forewing darker, with a red-brown subbasal cellular strigidenta- 
spot touching the double antemedian line. Macula at the cell-end dark, surrounded with light; postmedian 
line double, below vein 2 projecting far proximad, behind it a red-brown marginal area enclosing variable 
orange-red spots and grey spots which are partly bordered with white. Hindwing ochreous-yellow, spot at 
the cross-vein and at least the distal margin blackish-brown. Lagos, Spanish Guinea. Gabun. 
D. horrida Swh. (24 a). Dark brown, abdomen at the base somewhat whitish. Forewing olive-brown; honida. 
a proximal, distally curved, rather sinuate blackish-brown transverse line, a moon-spot at the cell-end, an 
almost straight and vertical discal line; marginal spots black, spotted white. Hindwing somewhat paler, 
marginal line dark ochreous. Expanse: 38 mm. Old Calabar. 
D. pulchripes Auriv. Foi’elegs yellow, mixed with brown and white. Forewing silky white, veins, pulchripes. 
an interrupted median band before the apex obliquely to the hind-margin near the base and a broad marginal 
band growing narrower towards the apex are blackish-grey. Hindwing silky white. Expanse : 24 mm. Cameroon. 
D. plagiata Wkr. (21 f). White, forewing with a brown spot at the base, a brown wedge-shaped spot, plagiata. 
widening along the distal margin, and a large almost square spot on the centre of the costal margin. Hereto 
probably belongs the figured specimen from the Tring Museum from Bingerville, Ivory Coast, although the 
prothorax does not exhibit the brown band mentioned by Walker. The forewings of the fresh specimens 
seem to exhibit a somewhat greenish tinge. Abdomen without dorsal tufts. Another specimen in the Berlin 
Museum has only the margin narrowly margined with brown as far as the apex, the forewing being more of 
a brownish tinge. Bipindi. 
D. deplagiata sp. n. (24 a). Forewing yellowish-white, a broad blackish-brown spot at the hind-margin deplagiata. 
before the tornus, a dot at the cell-end, traces of blackish irroration at the hind-margin and marginal area, 
blackish marginal spots at the apex, at veins 5 and 3. hindwing of a pure white. Cameroon. $ type in the 
Tring Museum from Bitye. 
D. ampliata Btlr. White, forewing strewn with a smoky brown colour, crossed by two irregular ampliata. 
transverse lines, the proximal one bordered by more brown scales, the distal one proximally bordered with 
blackish, distally with grey. A greyish indistinct submarginal line followed by a thin undulate black line. On 
the distal margin a grey thin line. Hinclwing suffused with a pale smoky brown colour, except at the costal 
margin. Expanse: 85 to 90 mm (9). Madagascar. Its exterior is said to be entirely the same as that of the 
Brazilian Lymantriid Lobeza ctglone H .-Schdff. 
D. denudata sp. n. (24 d). Quite similar to ampliata, the antemedian line not bordered with red-brown, denudala. 
the terminal line is absent, between the subterminal line and the margin the veins are black, at the cell-end 
a rarely absent black dot. $ with more faded markings. Madagascar. $$ type from Diego Suarez in the Tring 
Museum. 
D. georgiana Faivc. (24 c). Wings white, forewing with blackish transverse lines, hindwing towards georgiana. 
the hind-margin with blackish hair. Body wdtite, abdomen orange-yellow with black dorsal spots. South Africa. 
- Larva on Elephantorrhiza, velvety brown, with red and grey tubercles and very long hair-tufts which are 
yellow; on the 4th to 7th segments the dorsal tubercles are fused and exhibit shorter grey tufts. The pupa 
with yellow-ish and black markings in a thin web constructed of the yellow hair of the larva. 
D. tessmanni sp. n. (24 b, c) is like georgiana,.. but the forewing has a brownish-white ground-colour, tessmanni. 
the abdomen is above scarlet w ith black dorsal tufts. A large number collected by Tessmann in the Uam 
District, in the Berlin Museum. 
D. octophora Hmps. Similar to tessmanni. Forewing with more distinct and more numerous black odophora. 
lines, besides separated by the following marks: a black streak between the antennal bases, antennal pinnae 
blackish, tegulae behind margined with black, thorax with black spots, abdomen ochreous-w bite with blackish 
dorsal and lateral bands. Hindw ing with darker spots around the apex, and an indistinct subterminal band, 
at the distal margin a series of small black stripes. Expanse: 38 mm (<J). South Africa. 
D. polia sp. n. (24 b). Similar to the preceding ones, but the forew ing is distinctly dark grey with darker polia. 
lines and partly whitish brightenings, a particularly distinct dark median shadow over the cross-vein and the 
origin of 2 to the hind-margin, in the $ distinct as a spot on the fold. Much lighter are also the post median 
and limbal lines, before the margin a series of dark spots. Hindwing white, abdomen above yellow with black 
dorsal tufts. Markings of $ paler. types from the Uam District in the Berlin Museum, also from Transvaal. 
D. grandidieri Btlr. Forewing silky drab, scantily strewn with black scales, with 4 white zigzag transverse gra> didieri. 
lines which are more or less strewn w ith large black scales and spotted orange-yellow 7 . A marginal row of white- 
edged orange spots is speckled black; a similar spot at the cell-end. Hindwing white. Body whitish-brown, 
collar behind spotted w r hite and black, abdomen wdth black dorsal spots. Expanse: 53 mm. Madagascar. 
D. vibicipennis Btlr. Forewdng dark ash-grey, powdered with white, in the $ whitish ash-grey; veins i -ibicipen- 
white, a basal transverse band, two undulate bands of moon-spots, a double streak at the cross-vein, two more nis - 
