DASYCHIRA. By Dr. M. Hering. 
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D. leniuria sp. n. (21 c, 2.7 a). Wings of a pure white, in the <$ on the cross-vein of the forewing a lemuria. 
blackish macula, above it a black spot at the costal margin, sometimes the hindwing with a black shadow at 
the margin above the tornus. Body white, antennal pinnae red-brown, abdomen with the exception of the 
base above dark yellow with black dorsal tufts. Expanse: 30 (d*) to 58 ($) mm. type from Madagascar in 
the Berlin Museum; $ type from Mohanoro and several paratypes in the Tring Museum, also from the Comoro Is. 
D. ugandensis .sp. n. (27 e). In the contours of the wings similar to lemuria. Body white, abdomen uqandcn- 
pale ochreous-yellow, palpi outside blackish, as well as the antennal pinnae; a dot at the antennal ba'se, and 
the femora above red. Wings white, veins of forewing white, but margined with brownish. type from Entebbe 
(Uganda) in the Tring Museum. 
D. ursina sp. n. (24 e) in the habitus resembles an Arctiid. Body straw-coloured, abdomen above ursina. 
with scarlet transverse bands, except at the 1st segment which shows an orange dorsal tuft. Forewing silky 
brownish straw-coloured, transverse lines very indistinct, hindwing and under surface lustrous yellowish-white. 
9 type from East Transvaal in the Berlin Museum. 
D. suspecta sp. n. (26 h). Body brownish-yellow, forelegs dark brown. Wings above ochreous yellow, suspecta. 
fringes and forewing in the marginal area somewhat darker, forewing at the costal margin before the apex 
with a faded brown small hook and with traces of a not dentate postmedian line. Under surface darker, red- 
brown, only forewing in the hindmarginal half and on the upper surface yellow. Both wings with a crescent 
on the cross-vein darker, distally to it 2 distally very convex transverse lines. In the forewing before the apex 
1 or 2 black spots, a milky white moon-spot in the centre of the cell and whitish irroration below the costal 
margin as far as the centre of the wing . Apex of forewing somewhat produced. Expanse: 44 mm. Sierra Leone. 
£ type in the Tring Museum. 
D. laeliopsis sp. n. (27 e). Body ochreous yellowish-brown, dorsal tufts blackish. Eorewing wood- laeliopsis. 
coloured brown, the median area being enclosed by the dark, proximally light-edged antemedian and post¬ 
median lines is darker; macula at the cell-end indistinct. Behind the postmedian line and right before the 
margin one row' each of dark dots. Hindwing yellowish-grey with a darker submarginal line. Under surface 
straw-coloured, the spot on the cross-vein and 1 or 2 transverse lines blackish. 2 $$ from Bingerville, Ivory 
Coast, in the Tring Museum. The $ probably belonging to it has the same scheme of markings, but the ground¬ 
colour of the forewing is light olive greenish brown. $ type from Lolodorf. Cameroon, also specimens from 
Spanish Guinea. 
D. mediofasciata sp. n . (24 e). Basal half of forewing dark brown, before its end the darker antemedian mediofas- 
line. Median area as far as the postmedian line whitish, in it the brown macula at the cell-end. Marginal area 
lighter brown than the basal area with traces of a dark transverse line bordered with white, at the costal margin. 
Hindwing greyish, towards the margin darker. Under surface yellowish straw-coloured. Body brown, dorsal 
tufts black. 1. cf from German East Africa with quite straw-coloured hindwings. 5 £6 ' n the Berlin Museum 
from Spanish Guinea, Cameroon. German East Africa, type from Alen. 
D. tharaatos sp. n. Body greyish-brown, abdomen above dark, with light rings, beneath brownish lhanatos. 
ochreous. Dorsal tufts blackish. Fore wing greyish-brown, intermixed with pinkish-white. Antemedian line 
double, both as distant from each other as the first is from the subbasal line, the former with a blackish proximal 
ray, all being distally margined with whitish. Median area darker with a very large light macula broadly margined 
with dark at the cell-end. Postmedian line undulate, very convex, on both sides margined with light; distally 
to it an irregular row of blackish-brown spots, the largest spots between veins 5 and 7; before the margin a 
row of proximally open crescents, with speckled fringes. Hindwing grey, fringes likewise speckled. Under 
surface dark grey with a broad straw-coloured marginal area of both wings. $ type from Spanish Guinea, 
rf type from Bipindi, Cameroon, in the Berlin Museum. 
D. tabema sp. n. (27 b). Body blackish mixed with red-brown, abdomen grey, dorsal tufts blackish, iaberna. 
Forewing red-brown, shaded with sooty black in the cell and distally to it as far as behind the postmedian line 
and in a stripe before the submarginal line. Antemedian and postmedian line, the macula at the cell-end, a 
short basal streak below 1 c, and the submarginal line of moon-spots dark brown. Fringes uni-coloured blackish, 
but mixed with light grey. Hindwing brownish-grey, basally lighter. $ type from the Uam District in the 
Berlin Museum. 
D. tomiplaga -sp. n. (27 a). Body brownish-grey, abdomen lighter, dorsal tufts dark. Forewing greyish- iomiplaga. 
brown, in some places mixed with olive-green, particularly in the cell and on a spot above the tornus. Ante¬ 
median line double, at the hind-margin single, postmedian line below' vein 3 inwardly convex, submarginal 
line irregular; all the lines dark brown. The area between the post-median line and submarginal line with light 
ferruginous spots margined with whitish. Hindwing brownish-grey. $ type from the Uam District in the 
Berlin Museum. The East African nigerrinia subsp. 7iov. (27 e) has the same scheme of markings, but the w hole nigerrima. 
forewing is powdered with blackish, of the olive-green tornal spot only the proximal border is preserved as a 
blackish-browm spot, also the hindwing and under surface darker blackish. 9 type from German East Africa 
in the Berlin Museum. 
