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wing pale ochreous with a dark cross-vein and a broken indistinct sub marginal stripe. Expanse: 34 mm. 
Madagascar, Gameroon. 
B. ophthalrmodes sp. n. (25 a). Eorewing yellowish-brown, more or less powdered with a darker ophthalmo- 
colour, basal third marked as in basalis, postmedian line very dentate, in the anterior part darkened, forming 
an ocellus with some bows distally to it. Subterminal line fine black, straight. Hindwing whitish-grey, at the 
margin darker. $ type from L. Nyassa in the Berlin Museum. 
D. dubia Swh. (21a). Eorewing white with angular black and grey transverse lines: a short black dubia. 
streak near the base on the hind-margin, an interrupted basal line followed by an indistinct and broken line, 
an antemeclian line, a dot in the cell, and a curved macula on the cross-vein; postmedian line double, posteriorly 
both nearer to each other. A subterminal dentate line and 9 black dots on the margin. Hindwing grey, basally 
lighter, with some black marginal dots. Expanse: 40 mm. Madagascar. 
D. miselioides Kenr. (24 h). Eorewing dark brown, powdered with green, purple and pale tan-colour, miselioides. 
green at the base, along the costal margin and hind-margin, as well as between the median transverse lines 
and on the subterminal line. A white crescent at the tornus from which the subterminal line proceeds. Hind wing 
ochreous-yellow with a darker subterminal line. Expanse: 40 mm. Madagascar. Some specimens have a 
dark spot at the base of the wing, others a dark longitudinal line behind and parallel to the cell in the forewing. 
D. abbreviata Kenr. (24 g). Eorewing whitish-green, a dark green spot at the base, margined with abbreviata. 
pink and bordered by a darker antemedian line; in front of the latter on the hind-margin a dark spot. A similar 
one on the cross-vein; a feeble postmedian line, the darkest at the costal margin. Distally to it traces of a 
subterminal line and an area powdered with pinkish-brown. Hindwing almost white, an indistinct dark spot 
at the tornus. Expanse: 40 mm. Madagascar. 
D. luteolata Kenr. Body whitish, abdomen ochreous-yellow with a black dorsal line of the basal luteolata. 
3 segments. Eorewing whitish-ochreous, strewn with brown scales; a dark costal-marginal spot before the ante- 
median line and a similar one behind the postmedian line. Antemedian line only traceable, postmedian line 
distinctly dentate; an indistinct submarginal line and a terminal row of spots black, a macula on the cross¬ 
vein. Hindwing ochreous-yellow, with traces of a cross-vein streak and of a dark marginal line. Expanse: 
50 mm. Madagascar. 
D. inetathermes Hmps. Eorewing dark greyish-brown with an indistinct double subbasal line, a similar metather- 
antemedian line which is connected with the median line below the cell by a blackish spot. Postmedian line 
distally bordered with whitish, subterminal line whitish. Before the margin a row of dark streaks, the one 
above the fold being slanting. Hindwing light yellow, at the apex brownish. Abdomen yellow, dorsal tufts 
blackish. Expanse: 34 mm. Cape Colony. 
D. litigiosa sp. n. (24 i). Similar to metathermes in the marking of the forewing, which is indistinct, litigiosa. 
whereas the spots before the margin are very distinct. Hindwing yellow, costal margin broad black like the 
cross-vein, a stripe on 1 c and a spot at the tornus. German East Africa, type from Hindi in the Berlin 
Museum. 
D. aureotincta Kenr. (24 i). Body white, antennae red, abdomen basally white, then orange-yellow, aureotincta. 
Eorewing white with similar black transverse lines as in the preceding species. Hindwing dark grey. Expanse: 
56 mm. Madagascar. 
D. geoffreyi B.-Bak. Eorewing pale ochreous yellowish-grey, in the cell and fold scantily strewn with geoffreyi. 
brown, more thickly at the costal margin and beyond the cell in the costal-marginal area, less again at the 
margin. Traces of an irregular basal line, a cross-vein spot surrounded by dark, a fine dentate postmedian 
line. Hindwing ochreous-grey, at the margin more grey. Expanse: 38 (A) to 50 (2) mm. Uganda. 
D. carpenteri B.-Bak. (25 a). Forewing pale grey with a dark, very dentate basal line, an irregular carpenteri. 
double median line enclosing a whitish area proximally provided with a black dot, the distal line being very 
dentate. Distally to it an interrupted serrate-dentate line. Cross-vein with a black macula, above it a dark 
spot at the costal margin, followed by the double dentate postmedian band. Margin with dark dots. Wings 
partly powdered with brown. Hindwing straw-coloured with a broad, posteriorly narrower marginal band. 
$ darker grey, lines less distinct. Expanse: 40 to 50 mm. Uganda, Northern Nigeria. 
D. bimaculata Auriv. Forewing dark brown, with a black dentate antemedian and postmedian line, bimaculata. 
At the base below the cell an elliptic velvety black spot, another one at the costal margin before the apex, a 
black row of marginal crescents. Before the margin a row of yellowish crescents. Hindwing blackish-grey. 
Expanse: 40 mm. Cameroon. 
D. albosignata Roll. (24 li). Wings longer than in the following, forewing with a basal and subapical albosignaiu. 
spot as in bimaculata , postmedian line composed of lunae, below the cell very much projecting proximad, below 
vein 2 between the postmedian line and the subterminal line an oblong white spot, the area distally to it lighter. 
