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DASYCHIRA. By Dr. M. Hering. 
sublutes- 
cens. 
magnified. 
subflava. 
enos. 
viola. 
mascarena. 
melochlora. 
cangia. 
prasina. 
malgassica. 
gnava. 
macrodonta. 
D. sublutescens Holl. (24 f). Forewing tan-coloured with a round cross-vein ring, before and behind 
it numerous irregular sinuate transverse lines. At the costal margin dark zigzag-spots, at the base a transverse 
line, a submarginal and a terminal row of sagittary spots. Hindwing basally pale ochreous-yellow, at the margin 
clouded with brown. Beneath both wings are pale ochreous, at the margin brownish. Expanse: 43 to 53 mm. 
Gabun. 
D„ magnifica Hmps. Body brown, mixed with yellow and black. Abdomen orange, dorsal tufts black, 
black segmental rings and anal tufts. Forewing pale red-brown, powdered with black, a postmedian band of 
black irroration, at the costal margin very broad. Marginal area greyish. Subbasal, antemedian, and median 
lines black, the two latter distally bordered with grey. At the cell-end a macula of black dots. The black 
postmedian line proximally with a yellow streak at the costal margin, a subterminal row of black spots distally 
bordered with white, an irregular black marginal line. Hindwing orange-yellow, marginal area broad black. 
Expanse: 64 mm. Nigeria. 
D. subflava Wkr. Forewing whitish, at the distal margin brown, with brown spots at the costal margin 
and hind-margin and a row of black spots at the margin. Under surface and hind wing pale yellowish. Expanse: 
27 mm. Ashanti. 
D. enos Drc. ( = insolita Auriv.) (24 f). Forewing dark red-brown, the darkest from the cell-end to 
the tornus. Hindwing yellow with a broad red-brown distal margin. Abdomen yellow with black dorsal spots. 
Expanse: 50 mm. Old Calabar. 
D. viola Btlr. Forewing purple grey with a white central spot partly filling up the postmedian band. 
Basal area greenish with black spots; distal margin broadly pale, greenish, Proximally bordered with black; a 
double, dentate greenish-white postmedian line is edged with black, distally undulate. Cross-vein with a black 
lunular spot. Hindwing white, costal margin and distal margin yellowish, submarginal stripes and cross-vein 
blackish. Expanse: 42 mm. Madagascar. 
D. mascarena Btlr. <$: forewing whitish-green, near the base two interrupted black, white-edged 
transverse lines; a similar sinuate antemedian and postmedian line, a sinuate row of dark discal spots bordered 
with white, and an irregular submarginal row of spots. Hind wing pale greyish-brown, costal margin whitish. 
Thorax whitish, abdomen brown. Under surface whitish. $ whiter than the <$, hindwing white excepting a 
spot behind the cell. Expanse: 45 to 55 mm. Madagascar. 
D. melochlora sp, n. (= congia Holl.) (24 f) is similar to mascarena , darker green, but in the forewing 
in the basal area only two brown, white-edged spots at the costal margin, and a brown spot in the fold, ante¬ 
median line behind the fold no more white-edged, discal spots only distally bordered with white, partly fused 
with the submarginal spots. Hindwing cpiite purely white. Under surface purely white, only the costal margin 
of the forewing and the fringe brownish. Abdomen above grey. Expanse: 43 mm. <$ type in the Berlin Museum. 
Southern Nigeria, Lagos. 
D„ cangia Drc. (24 f). Forewing white with yellow or green veins, in the marking similar to mascarena. 
intensely powdered with greenish; hindwing white, at the hind-margin broadly blackish-grey. Abdomen above 
grey. $ larger with more distinct markings, hindwing darker. Expanse: 45 to 60 mm. Delagoa Bay. 
D. prasina Btlr. Forewing green, at the costal margin darker and more bluish-green, intermixed with 
slanting snow-white spots. The 5th dark green costal-marginal spot is continued in a curved dark green 
transverse line, beyond which there are traces of a row of white-edged dots. Costal margin between the white 
spots bordered with black. A large black oval spot at the hind-margin before the centre white, hind-margin 
blackish as far as % of the wing, a brown spot at the anal angle. Hindwing beneath white or with a curved 
brown longitudinal streak from the base. Abdomen beneath in the centre black, sometimes only in the 
posterior half flesh-coloured. The black hindmarginal spot of the forewing may be absent. Expanse: 30 mm. 
Madagascar. 
D. malgassica sp. n. (24 g) resembles prasina , but the forewing lacks the black spot at the centre 
of the hind-margin, whereas a black dot is above the tornus on 1 c distally to the postmedian line. Hind wing 
white, marginal area greenish, sometimes darkened into blackish. Under surface purely white, only the costal 
margin of the forewing is blackish. 3 d'd' hr the Berlin Museum from Betsileo, Madagascar. Middle tibiae with 
projecting hair, thus probably belonging to Notohybe Aur. 
D. gnava Swh. (= virescens Mschlr.) (24 i). Forewing olive-brown, powdered with green, with blackish 
antemedian and postmedian lines, at the costal margin bordered with a lighter green, the antemedian line 
interrupted from the cell to the fold, crossing vein 2 after its rise, not very sinuate. Discal line blackish-brown 
with two angles extending spear-shaped to the margin, behind vein 2 distally margined with white. Hindwing 
brownish-grey. Collar uni-coloured. Under surface reddish-brown. Aburi, Togo. 
D. macrodonta sp. n. (24 h) differs from gnava in the antemedian line being situate more basally, 
crossing the cell before its rise from vein 2, more strongly dentate, particularly below vein 1 b, the discal line 
connected by a black ray with the margin not only below veins 7 and 4, but also below vein 6, costal margin 
without lighter green spots. Body lighter, collar parted by brown. Under surface uni-coloured pale ochreous. 
Abdomen with a black dorsal line. <$ type from South Nigeria in the Berlin Museum. 
