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tooth on the posterior margin of the cell. Distally to the broad white-edged postmedian line another strongly 
dentate line, another submarginal lunular line. Macula at the cell-end darker, this darkening being continued, 
particularly over the tornus. Hindwing light grey, at the margin darker. South African specimens are more 
monotonously coloured and show hardly any white in the forewing. $ type from the Uam District in the 
Berlin Museum. 
D. blasphemia sp. n. (24 g). Body grey, abdomen with a black dorsal line. Forewing brownish-grey; blasphemia. 
antemedian and postmedian lines double, the space between them as well as the subbasal area lighter, at the 
cell-end 2 or 3 dark dots, before the margin 2 rows of dark crescents being distally light-pupilled. Hindwing 
greyish-brown, fringes speckled. East Africa, $ type from Bangamoyo in the Berlin Museum. In the South 
African xanthochronia nov. subsp. the abdomen is yellow, the ground-colour of the forewing yellowish-brown, xanthochro- 
the central area not lighter. $-type vom Verulam in the Berlin Museum. 
D. albimaculata -sp. n. (27§&). Body greyish-brown, also the forewing which shows a white macula albimacu- 
filled with yellowish at the cell-end. Subbal, antemedian, postmedian, and a fine submarginal line darker. 
Central area violettish-grey. Hindwing white. type from Verulam, Natal, in the Berlin Museum. 
D. zena sp. n. (27 c). Body dark brownish-grey, dorsal tufts blackish. Forewing brown, basal area zena. 
dark violettish-grey and powdered with green. Antemedian line double. Postinedian line below vein 2 very 
much removed towards the base, the line behind it indistinct, submarginal line composed of internerval spots. 
Macula on the cross-vein dark, continued to the costal margin, in front of it greenish and violet costal-marginal 
irroration. Hindwing greyish-brown. Under surface straw-coloured. Madagascar, ,^-type from Diego Suarez 
in the Tring Museum. 
D. ania sp. n. (27 c). Body blackish-brown, abdomen lighter, dorsal half blackish. Forewing olive- ania. 
greenish brown, extensively clouded with black, particularly in the distal portion; the postmedian line extends 
to the tornus. Hindwing whitish, darkened by brownish. 2 from Diego Suarez, Madagascar, in the Tring 
Museum. 
D. rhopalum sp. n. (27 b). Body brown, dorsal tufts darker, forewing brown, transverse lines indistinct, rhopalum. 
a spot before and at the cell-end, the macula dark brown, at the hind-margin a large dark velvety brown spot, 
bordered by the posterior margin of the cell and vein 2, behind by the submarginal line. Hindwing grey. <T type 
from Cameroon in the Berlin Museum. 
D. longistriata sp. n. Body yellowish-grey, forewing yellowish-grey, powdered with dark, particularly longistriata. 
in a long ray extending from the base through the centre of the wing almost to the margin. The marginal area 
and the cell are more or less powdered with violettish-grey. Antemedian and postmedian lines indistinctly 
blackish. Before the margin between veins 4 and 7 three black triangular spots being posteriorly divergent 
with the distal margin, distally bordered with light. Veins in the distal portion lighter than the ground-colour. 
Below % of vein 2 a light dot. Hind wing greyish-brown. Under surface wood-coloured, powdered with dark, 
fore wing with the sub marginal spots and a dark cross-vein, hindwing with a large spot on the cross-vein, and 
1 to 3 submarginal spots. 2 $$ from Spanish Guinea in the Berlin Museum. 
D. grammodes sp. n. (27 f) in the habitus somewhat like a Laelia. Body and forewing ochreous- grammodes. 
yellowish with blackish dots in a postmedian indistinct row below vein 4 scarcely distally curved, more distinct, 
then developed along the fold (1 c), where it represents an incomplete double row, above and below the fold, a dot 
at the cell-end, a similar row also on the hind-margin. Hind wing greyish-brown. Undersurface lighter, hindwing 
with a blackish median spot. type from Madagascar in the Berlin Museum, paratype in the Tring Museum. 
D. pais sp. n. (27 d). Body yellowish-grey, forewing brown, the whole costal margin brightened up by pais. 
white, scantily powdered with blackish, macula at the cell-end obliquely extended, pinkish-brown, behind 
it besides 3 indistinct transverse lines. Hind wing and under surface greyish brown. Ivory Coast. $-type from 
Bingerville in the Tring Museum. 
D. pachytaenia sp. n. (27 d). Body brownish, mixed with grey, antennal shaft white, abdomen yellow, pachytae- 
Forewing lilac-grey, in some places powdered with a darker colour. Antemedian line blackish, with a sharp ,ua - 
distal tooth in the centre of the cell, connected with the similar subbasal line by veins being powdered with 
blackish and whitish. Postmedian line blackish, below vein 2 with a large white, distally open crescent, behind 
it a blackish spot. In the central area from the cell-end to (A of the hind-margin a red-brown broad line. 
Behind the postmedian line another transverse line which defines an almost purely lilac-grey marginal area. 
Marginal line blackish, fringe red-brown speckled with yellowish. Hind wing yellowish hyaline, iridescent, in 
the marginal area darker, marginal line yellow. $ type from Kibwezi, British East Africa in the Tring Museum. 
D. chlorobasis sp. n. (27 d). Body red-brown, beneath lighter, dorsal tufts blackish. Forewing brown, chlorobasis. 
basal quarter green, crossed by the double dark subbasal line. Antemedian line in front double, between the 
cell and 1 a indistinct. Blackish spots below the cell-end. Postmedian line feebly dentate, dark brown, between 
veins 5 to 7 deep black, behind it an indistinct lighter line, adjoining to it between the veins 5 and 7 a large 
lilac grey spot, a similar one at the tornus. Submarginal line indistinct. Hindwing straw-coloured, at the tornus 
a black spot, fringes brown, under surface straw-coloured with dark brown subapical spots. £ type from Uelleburg, 
West Africa, in the Berlin Museum. 
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