nebulifera. 
sagittipho- 
rn. 
acroleuca. 
leucostig- 
mata. 
scotina. 
leucogram¬ 
ma. 
viol ace a. 
1 oxo gram¬ 
ma. 
xylopoecila. 
hypocrita. 
hastifera. 
pluto. 
17<> DASYCHIRA. By Dr. M. Hebino. 
D. nebulifera sp. n. (27 b). Forewing wood-coloured, transverse lines ajid macula at the cell-end blackish- 
brown. Antemedian line with a proximal sharp tooth on 1 c, postmedian line not very convex. Submarginal 
line only in some dots between veins 2 and 5 more distinct. A dark cloudy spot between the subbasal and an¬ 
temedian lines at the costal margin, not crossing vein 1 c downward, another similar spot at the distal margin 
between the veins 2 and 7, almost extending to the postmedian line. Fringes speckled. Hindwing brownish- 
grey. Body brownish grey; abdomen grey with somewhat darker dorsal tufts. $ type from German East Africa 
in the Berlin Museum. 
D. sagittiphora sp. n. (24 &). Forewing brown with a dark blackish-brown very short basal ray, behind 
it a transverse area of violettish-grey irroration; antemedian line downward distally oblique, median area 
powdered with violettish-grey, but macula brown, with a darker margin. Distally to the postmedian line another 
transverse line extended in several sagittae to the margin, thus piercing the submarginal row of dots. Fringe 
speckled. Hindwing grey. Under surface straw-coloured with a discal dot and a postmedian band dark. Body 
brownish-grey, dorsal tufts blackish. 3 $$ from Spanish Guinea in the Berlin Museum. 
D. acroleuca sp. n. (27 f) resembles the following, white spots accumulated at the apex, in the apex 
itself the largest of the white dots. The area distally to the cross-vein is lighter. $ type from Mohanoro. Mada¬ 
gascar, in the Tring Museum. 
D. leucostigmata sp. n. Forewing dark brown, in some jdaces clouded lighter. Transverse lines indis¬ 
tinct, blackish, but bordered with numerous white dots, particularly in the transverse line situate behind the 
postmedian line, the most distinctly pronounced before the apex and at the tornus. The $ has fewer white 
dots, but always 2 before the apex and a larger one above the tornus. Hindwing grey, in the basally 
lighter. $ type from the Ukami Mts. (Berlin Museum), $ type from Kyambu (Tring Museum), East Africa. 
Hereto probably also belong specimens from Bingerville and Spanish Guinea. The number of white dots is 
apparently very variable. 
D. scotina sp.n. (24 e). Scheme of markings as in leucostigmata, but all the white dots are absent; 
transverse bands only very feebly lighter, forewing very much darkened, monotonous. 3 in the Berlin Mu¬ 
seum from the Uam District. An otherwise entirely similar from German East Africa has white hindwings, 
only the apex being brownish. 
D. leucogramma sp. n. (27 f). Forewing dark brown, antemedian line at the costal margin as far as 
the cell and postmedian line entirely on both sides margined with pinkish-white, behind them an irregular, 
distally partly white line and a dark submarginal line. At the cell-end an interrupted dark macula. Above 
the tornus a dark spot. Body dark grey, dorsal tufts blackish. type from Lolodorf, Cameroon, in the Berlin 
Museum. 
0. violacea sp. n. (24 g). Scheme of markings as in leucogramma. Forewing without any white, 
mixed with a lighter violettish grey, macula at the cell-end mostly large and black. In the hindwing beneath 
the two transverse lines are more remote than in leucogramma , interrupted by spots. 2 $$ from Lolodorf. 
Cameroon, in the Berlin Museum. 
D. loxogramma sp. n. Forewing parted by an oblique whitish line extending from the apex to the 
centre of the hind-margin. The anterior portion is almost unicoloured ferruginous, the portion behind it 
containing the postmedian transverse line is blackish-grey, but the marginal area with the blackish submarginal 
row of dots is again red-brown. The blackish portion is more or less powdered with lilac grey or whitish which 
colour may predominate therein. Hindwing grey like the body, dorsal tufts dark brown. The colouring of 
the forewing is very variable. 4 $$ from Lolodorf in the Berlin Museum. The <$ doubtfully placed hereto is 
dark brown in the fore wing and shows in the direction of the oblique band a light brown brightening. 
D. xylopoecila S'p. n. (27 e). Forewing chocolate-brown with a dark basal streak below margined 
with white, hind-margin light red-brown. Macula at the cell-end orange-oclireous, edged with black, distally 
in front of it a pinkish wood-coloured spot, extended to the apex, crossed by the darker dentate postmedian 
line. Between veins 2 to 5 before the margin 2 or 3 white spots. Hindwing and abdomen grey, dorsal tufts 
blackish, thorax ochreous-yellowish: $ type from Lolodorf, Cameroon, in the Berlin Museum. 
D. hypocrita sp. n. (27 a). Forewing dark brown; median area tinted violettish-grey, at the hind- 
margin with a large yellowish-white, anteriorly blue spot. The transverse line behind the postmedian line 
with sharp dents to the margin, on vein 1 c with a white dot. Hindwing and body dark brown. $ type from 
Lolodorf, Cameroon, in the Berlin Museum. 
D. hastifera sp. n. (27 d). Forewing red-brown, mixed with a lighter colour, with black markings. 
Antemedian line connected with a basal streak, at the hind-margin entirely incurved towards the base, post- 
median line double, its proximal border at the hind-margin running to the antemedian line, the distal one between 
veins 1 c and 2 and between 4 and 5, and 5 and 6 extended to the margin. Cellular macula above vein 
4 extended to the postmedian line. Hindwing yellowish-grey, powdered with pinkish-brown. Body and 
dorsal tufts pinkish-brown. type from Tabora, German East Africa in the Berlin Museum, paratype from 
Agoniland in the Tring Museum. 
D. pluto sp. n. (27 c). Forewing brownish-grey, mixed with whitish, particularly before the ante¬ 
median line and around the postmedian line. The former double, divergent at the hind-margin, with a distal 
