problemati- 
ca. 
gentilis. 
chela n la. 
acrisia. 
crausis. 
conj uncti- 
fascia. 
ertli. 
elegans. 
pastor. 
ila. 
beryinanni. 
b idler i. 
subochra- 
cea. 
174 DASYCHIRA. By Dr. M. Hering. 
or less distinct, slantingly placed subapical spots and a series of marginal spots rust-coloured. Hindwing pale 
brownish-yellow, distally in the $ darker. Thorax yellowish-brown, tegulae somewhat whitish, abdomen 
yellowish-brown, segments behind whitish. Expanse about 50 to 75 mm. Madagascar. 
D. problematica sp. n. (24 c). Body of a bright ochreous yellow, tarsi and antennal shaft black. 
Forewing orange-red with black markings mixed with bluish-white : a basal spot, subbasal, antemedian, median, 
post-median, and submarginal transverse bands. Fringe brown. Hindwing yellow, at the margin diffusely 
darkened, fringe yellow. <$ type from Madagascar in the Berlin Museum. 
D. gentilis Btlr. (24 d). Similar to the preceding species, forewing chalky wrhite and densely dotted 
black except at the margin. Basal band composed of 3 spots, at the cross-vein 5 spots, all the bands and spots 
red-brown. Hindwing straw-coloured. Madagascar. 
D. chelonia Le Cerf. Forewing yellowish-white, base black with a broad black median band, its 
proximal margin curved, the distal margin projecting between the veins 3 to 5 and enclosing two white spots, 
one at the costal margin above the cell-end, the other at the base of cells 3 and 4, reaching to 1 c. Distally 
to the median band another band of black spots, enlarged at the hind-margin. Hindwing orange-yellow. In 
the $ the transverse bands of the forewing are only present as lines. Expanse: 74 to 83 mm. Madagascar. 
D. acrisia Pltz. (24c). Forewing yellow with red transverse bands: a basal one, tw r o subbasal lines 
being united at the hind-margin, a postmedian one and a terminal one; red are besides the veins and a longi¬ 
tudinal streak in the cell. Between these lines 4 transverse stripes of spots powdered with blackish. Hindwing 
varying from yellowish to somewhat reddish. The form crausis Drc. (24 c), apparently predominating at 
Lake Nyassa. hardly exhibits yet the yellow ground-colour, because the black spots are much expanded and 
fill the spaces between the red lines as broad bands. — In conjursctifascia Joic. <f- Talb. the antemedian and 
postmedian black bands are fused. West and East Africa. 
D. ertli Wichgr. is very similar to crausis (24 c), but the hindwing is red with a black marginal band. 
Expanse: 28 mm. Angola. 
O. elegans Btlr. Forewing snow-white, strewn with black scales, particularly in the basal third which 
is bordered by a brown transverse line. Veins brown. A slanting postmedian black zigzag line, distally to it 
a black spot at the costal margin, below the latter an irregular brown band. A sinuate black discal line is 
anteriorly connected with the zigzag band. The marginal area being pow dered w ith black contains a marginal 
row of white dots. Hindwing ochreous-yellow, in the cell greyish, and with an indistinct dark distal margin. 
Expanse: 51 mm. Madagascar. 
D. pastor Btlr. (24 e). Forewing apple green w ith blackish-brown subbasal antemedian and post¬ 
median lines, the latter being anteriorly convex, between them with scattered white spots, a white base and a 
whitish submarginal line. Between the 1st and 2nd transverse stripes the space is grey filled up by a blackish 
spot at the costal margin and a larger one behind the cell. Cross-vein with a 3-shaped macula, before the white 
submarginal line some blackish spots, particularly between veins 3 and 4. Hindwing pale grey; thorax and 
dorsal tufts of abdomen rust-coloured yellow, mixed with wFite. Madagascar. 
D. ila Swh. Forewing grey, powdered with darker grey, with 6 sinuate transverse bands of brown 
moon-spots: two antemedian ones near the base, Dvo median ones (terminating in a moon-spot- on the cross-vein), 
a distally curved discal one and a submarginal one, composed of sometimes double dots. Fringe with double 
dots, hindwing and abdomen white, under surface purely white. Abdomen w ith dorsal tufts. Expanse: 35 mm. 
Ashanti. 
D. bergmanni Swh. Forewing olive-green with a brownish stigma at the cell-end. scantily powdered 
with brown, with 8 indistinct brown transverse bands enclosing, particularly distally, dentate white and brown 
transverse lines. Marginal line blackish-brown, fringe ochreous-yellow isli, w ith a grey median line and blackisli- 
brown spots at the ends. Hindwing pale ochreous yellowish-brown like the abdomen, with blackish-brown 
dorsal tufts. Expanse about 60 mm. Ashanti. 
D. butler! Swh. nom. nov. (moerens Btlr.) (24 d, e). Forewing lilac grey with black basal, antemedian, 
and distally curved postmedian transverse lines, as well as a double streak at the cross-vein, all of them edged 
w ith dark green. The 2nd and 3rd lines exhibit at- the costal margin a chalky white spot-. Marginal area greenish 
with black submarginal crescents. Hindwing whitish or grey. Madagascar. 
D. subochracea Auriv. Body and forewing dark greyish-brown, abdomen, hindwing above and both 
rings beneath of a bright- ochreous-yellow colour. All the tarsi are long-haired. Forewing basally and at the 
margin lighter violettish-grey with a brown postmedian line which projects very much towards the margin 
at vein 5 and is bordered with white between vein 5 and the costal margin; between this line and the apex a 
white spot. 2 fine brown submarginal lines. Abdomen with black dorsal spots. Expanse: 43 mm. Kilima¬ 
njaro, 
