•prosper a. 
hampsoni. 
post pur a. 
proleprota. 
greeni. 
rubrifilata. 
escota. 
lunensis. 
atrifilata. 
satanas. 
182 DASYCHIRA. By Dr. M. Hering. 
Cell and space between the antemedian and postmedian lines pinkish or greenish white. Hindwing light grey. 
Ogove, Spanish Guinea, Togo. 
D. prospera sp. n. (24 i) differs from bimaculata in the absence of the velvety black spot before the 
apes; postmedian line hardly dentate, almost straight, not curved below the cell, the yellowish submarginal 
line extending in front only to vein 3 or 4. Cameroon, German East Africa. $ type from Batanga in the Ber lin 
Museum, type from the Ogove River in the Tring Museum. 
D. hampsoni nom. nov. (= postfusca Hmps. nec Swh. 1895). Forewing grey, powdered with brown, 
particularly medianly and terminally. Costal margin black at the base, subbasal line distally ciu’ved, antemedian 
line double, very dentate; ring-macula and reniform macula black margined with brown, traces of a dark median 
line; postmedian line distally very convex, dentate; two slanting black stripes at the costal margin before the 
apex, a submarginal row of black and white streaks. Hindwing dark brown. Expanse: 34 mm. Cape Colony. 
D. postpura limps. Body white mixed with brown. Abdomen without dorsal tufts. Forewing white, 
powdered a little with brownish and densely with blackish. Base of costal margin black. Subbasal and ante¬ 
median lines black, angular, black macula in the centre and at the end of the cell. In the middle an almost 
straight dark shadow. Postmedian line as in hampsoni, two black stripes at the costal margin before the apex, 
an undulate terminal line. Hindwing white, cross-vein with a lunar spot, marginal area slightly powdered 
with brownish, the most densely at the apex. Expanse: 32 mm. Cape Colony. 
D. proleprota Hmps. Body brown, powdered with whitish. Forewing brown, with a whitish-grey 
tint. Some indistinct spots at the base, two whitish dots on the centre of the costal margin and two before 
the apex. At the cell-end a narrow macula filled with whitish. Traces of a double undulate antemedian line. 
Postmedian line below the costal margin slightly distally convex, more so on vein 4, on the fold proximally 
curved. Hinclwing reddish-brown. Expanse: 32 mm. Cape Colony. 
D. greeni Janse (24 i). Forewing elongate-triangular, light tan-coloured, powdered with blackish, 
except before and behind the antemedian line, on a triangular median spot below the costal margin, the anterior 
portion of the postmedian line, and the subterminal line between the veins. Subbasal line indistinct, antemedian 
line blackish, dentate. The double median line is indistinctly undulate, blackish. Spot on the cross-vein light, 
hindwing brown. Expanse: 36 mm. $: fore wing likewise yellowish-brown, sometimes darker without the 
black powdering of the with blackish transverse stripes. Hindwing yellow, at the margin brownish. Expanse: 
47 mm. J and $ bred from larvae on ,,milkweed“. South Africa. 
D. rubrifilata Hmps. Forewing pale purple-grey, powdered with blackish, the transverse lines and the 
spot at the cell-end being ferruginous reddish, undulate. Hindwing pale greyish. Expanse: 42 mm. Central 
Africa, Rhodesia. 
D. escota Hmps. Forewing pale greyish-brown, slightly powdered with dark, basal half and postmedian 
and terminal areas powdered with a greenish grey, traces of a reddish and black subbasal line, a similar distinct 
antemedian line and spot at the cross-vein. Postmedian line double, inside filled with red; beyond it the costal 
margin is slightly powdered with blackish. A submarginal row of red and black dots. Hindwing grey, powdered 
with dark brown, at the margin darker. In the $ the median and marginal areas are paler. Expanse: 30 to 
40 mm. Mashonaland. 
D. lunensis Hmps. Forewing pale olive-coloured, powdered with brown. Costal margin, cell, and 
the area from the cell-end to the subterminal line suffused with purple. Traces of a subbasal and a double 
antemedian transverse band, post median line distinct, feebly dentate, a slanting row of black and white dentate 
spots between veins 4 and 1 c beyond it, the lowest being the largest. A subterminal line of black streaks, 
slantingly placed above veins 3 and 2. Hindwing whitish-yellow, at the margin blackish. In the $ the median 
area is greenish, the macula at the cross-vein whitish. A large brown crescentiform spot from below the 
costal margin to vein 2, a whitish line before the subterminal streaks, proximally with black dentate spots. 
Expanse: 32 to 36 mm. Natal. — Larva yellow, tubercles with whitish hair-tufts, 1st segment with brown 
pencils of long pinnate hairs. A brown dorsal stripe, spotted yellow, subdorsal line yellow with pink spots on 
the centre of each segment. 
D. atrifilata Hmps. Forewing grey, powdered with blackish, with a thin subbasal line ending on a 
black spot below the cell, with a dark distal shadow towards the costal margin. Antemedian line broad, rather 
straight. At the cell-end a spot surrounded by black, above it at the costal margin a black streak. A median 
line from the origin of vein 2, incurved, towards the hind-margin. Postmedian line feebly dentate, subterminal 
line incurved on veins 2, 3 and 5. Hindwing white, marginal area darker. In the $ the forewing is more powdered 
with blackish. The spot on the cross-vein is connected with the antemedian line; before the subterminal line 
an undulate black line with a black moonspot below vein 2. Hindwing darker. Expanse: 40 to 46 mm. 
Mashonaland. 
D. safanas sp. n . (24 i). Similar to the following extatura, but the postmedian line of the forewing is 
rather not dentate, distally to it a red-brown nebulous band. Hindwing purely white. Antennae ochreous- 
yellow. $ $ types from Windhoek in the Berlin Museum, one also in the Tring Museum. 
