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DASYCHIRA. By Dr. M. Herixg. 
perdita. 
exoleta. 
ladburyi. 
styx. 
castanea. 
ornata. 
rufotincta. 
didymata. 
brunneata. 
aurantiaca. 
viridipicta. 
ocellatula. 
D. perdita B.-Bak. Forewing uni-coloured brown without markings, only the veins in the median 
area darker. Hindwing pale brown with dark veins. Expanse: 34 mm. Gunnal, West Africa. 
D. exoleta B.-Bak. Forewing chocolate-brown with a blackish longitudinal stripe at the fold, ending 
shortly before the margin. It is interrupted by the paler antemedian line. In the median area a large irregular 
grey spot occupying the posterior portion of the cell and below it suddenly strangulated, then again expanded 
at the hind-margin. A dark double postmedian line from the costal margin to vein 5, with traces of a velvety 
brown irregular and interrupted deeply dentate subterminal line from which 2 or 3 small fine spots extend 
into the margin. Hindwing greyish-brown. Expanse: 40 mm. Malange, West Africa. It is said to be allied 
to D. gonophora Holl. 
D. ladburyi B.-Bak. (= ladburi Swh.). Body grey, collar greenish. Forewing green with a dark 
basal spot at the costal margin. Antemedian line dark, irregular, in front dentate and fine, below the cell 
broader and oblique with a black spot in the fold. A dark-edged spot at the cell-end, a grey postmedian line 
is undulate. Subterminal line very irregular, broad and dark, several times deeply angled. Shortly before 
the margin a line of black lunae between the veins. Hindwing yellowish-grey. Expanse: 54 mm. Uganda. 
D. styx B.-Bak. is said to be allied to D. fusca Wlkr. Forewing blackish-brown, markings velvety 
black, a distinct, irregular undulate and dentate basal line, a dentate and clistally curved median line, post- 
median line very irregular and deeply undulate; it is followed by a likewise dentate line which, however, is 
not parallel to it. A subterminal row of spots recedes on the fold into the distal postmedian line. Margin with 
dark internerval spots. At the cross-vein two dark streaks, the distal one representing part of the real postmedian 
line. Hindwing grey, beyond the cell brownish. In the $ the lines and spots are often bordered with yellowish- 
brown. Expanse: 34 to 40 mm. North Angola. 
D. castanea Kenr. Forewing pale ochreous with numerous red-brown undulate transverse lines of 
which the 2nd, 4th and 6th are broader than the others. Hindwing dull orange with a black submarginal stripe 
which is the most distinct at the anal angle, beneath with three similar stripes. Expanse: 46 mm. Madagascar. 
D. ornata Obthr. Forewdng whitish-yellow, all the brown transverse stripes very irregular; the subbasal 
one is very broad, at the hind-margin narrower, fused with the narrow antemedian one; the median one only 
in the anterior half, where it is very broad, towards the tornus fused with the discal one which is very much 
narrower in the middle, the latter in two places extending to the margin. The brown bands partly contain 
irregular spots of the ground-colour. Hindwing and abdomen yellow. Expanse about 50 mm. Madagascar. 
D. rufotincta Kenr. Forewing pink, at the costal margin broadly suffused with white; an interrupted 
black basal line, a slanting angular antemedian line and tw r o likewise angular postmedian lines enclosing a 
dark grey area, an irregular subterminal line. Hindwing dark grey, somewhat reddish at the base. Expanse: 
48 (d 1 ) to 70 ($) mm. Madagascar. 
D. didymata Kenr. In the marking similar to rufotincta, forewing pale ochreous, particularly conspicuous 
a black hindmarginal streak connecting the antemedian and postmedian lines, and a dark spot at the tornus. 
Hindwing pale pink. Colouring of $ paler. Expanse: 34 (d) to 50 ($) mm. Madagascar. 
D. brunneata Kenr. Similar to didymata, but with broader wings. Forewing ochreous-yellow, 
powdered with red-brown; an oblique dark brown basal streak, a broad angular antemedian line, a short dark 
streak in the cell; a postmedian line, interrupted at the cell, a subterminal band of 8 whitish dots, posteriorly 
angular; a terminal line of dark dots. Hindwing ochreous-yellow, basally somewhat pink. Expanse: 40 mm. 
Madagascar. 
D. aurantiaca Kenr. (24 h). Body greyish-white, abdomen yellow. Forewing greyish-white, the lightest 
at the base, with black transverse lines at the base, followed by a darker shadow, the antemedian line partly 
double, the postmedian line strongly angular, discally and subterminally. Hindwing ochreous-yellow, powdered 
with blackish with an indistinct blackish submarginal line. Expanse: 42 mm. Madagascar. 
D. viridipicta Kenr. Forewing tan-coloured with dark green markings: a basal spot extending to 
Y 2 of the costal margin, distally dentate and arched, but leaving free a basal spot at the hind-margin. At 
% of the costal margin a triangular, proximally black spot, at the tornus a somewhat quadrangular spot. 
Hindwing pale ochreous. Expanse: 38 mm. Madagascar. 
D. ocellatula nom. nov. (= ocellata Kenr. nec Holl.). Forewing brown, at the base powdered with 
green, a dark brown spot in the centre of the wing and a brown stripe at the hind-margin. Beyond it a green 
transverse streak, distally bordered by an angular dark line. At the costal margin the wing turns darker 
brown, and two lines form a paler ocellated spot; beyond it an indistinctly defined white spot, above it a 
dark brown spot. Distally to it a pale band, turning greenish towards the tornus. Marginal line black. Hind- 
