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margin behind it a similar line, posteriorly divergent with it, towards the tornus, the space between both being 
brightened up by whitish. Before the margin a row of dark brown dots; between veins 3 and 5 a dark nebulous 
spot before them. Hindwing whitish. Ogove, Nigeria. 
D. fuscula nom. nov. (— fusca Holl. nee Wkr.). Body and wings wood-coloured, the wings at the / usculu. 
distal margins clouded darker. Forewing in the cell with a number of black dots. Finder surface paler, at the 
cell-end a dark spot, forewing with a straight row of dark dots from below the apex to the tornus. Hindwing 
with some brown submarginal spots before the apex and a brown spot at the tornus. Expanse: 26 mm. Ogove. 
D. costiplaga Holl. Body greyish-white, abdominal tuft dai’k brown. Forewing dark brown, apex and costiplaga. 
hind-margin whitish. The white apical area is interrupted by a brown comma-shaped small costal-marginal 
hook. Hindwing greyish-white. Costal margin and distal margin lighter. Expanse: 40 mm. Ogove. 
D. hyloica Holl. Collar brownish-grey with an erect dark brown median bunch of scales, body otherwise hyloica. 
dark brown, apex of abdomen whitish. Forewing purple brown, interrupted by a lighter area extending from 
almost the centre of the cell to the apex, containing a brown ring at the cell-end, beyond which there are 
some dark longitudinal streaks. Before the apex a dark brown costal-marginal spot. Subbasal and median 
transverse lines dark brown. Hindwing white. Expanse: 42 mm. Ogove. 
D. agrotoides Holl. Body brown, abdomen yellowish. Forewing lilac-brown, at the tornus ash-grey, agrotoides. 
Forewing wdth an irregularly bent yellow, proximally brown subbasal line, a dark ring in the centre and at 
the hind-margin beyond the base a spot of dark brown erect scales. Limbal and submarginal lines indistinct, 
at the costal margin more distinct. Hindwing whitish, at the distal margin darker. Finder surface whitish 
with a silky gloss, in the forewing at the base and in the centre darker. Expanse: 28 mm. Ogove. 
D. nigristriata Holl. Forewing in the costal half chalky white, in the hindmarginal half pale yellowish nigristriata 
A white bent subbasal line, a similar one from the distal margin below the apex to % of the hind-margin. 
Between them a brown space continued to the distal margin beyond the beginning of the white line. Above 
it at the distal margin a narrow black longitudinal streak. At the cell-end a black ring. Hindwing purely which. 
Expanse: 25 mm. Ogove. 
D. erubescens Holl. Body whitish. Forewing light pink, at the tornus yellowish-white. Darker pink, erubescens. 
a subbasal line and a ring at the cell-end. Hindwing yellowish-white. Expanse: 30 mm. Ogove. 
D. nubifera Holl. (25 b). Forewing wood-coloured brown with a blackish-grey band extending from nubifera. 
the base of the costal margin to the centre of the hind-margin and from there almost rectangularly to the 
apex. The marginal area is lighter than the rest of the wing and contains a narrow dark line. At the cell- 
end a greyish-black spot, clistally to it in the dark band a darker irregular postmedian line. Antemedian line 
indistinct. Hindwing light grey, at the cell-end and distal margin darker. Ogove. 
D. danva Schs. <£• Clem. (25 b). Forewing blackish-brown mixed with green, the darker markings danva. 
indistinct. Hindwing blackish-brown, with a triangular orange spot projecting from the margin; this spot 
is of a variable width. Cameroon, Sierra Leone. 
D. suarezia Mab. is difficult to range. Forewing yellowish-brown with transverse rows of brown suarezia. 
crescentiform spots. We can distinguish an antemarginal band of lighter spots, distally followed between the 
veins by 1 or 2 brown spots. In cell 2 there are 2 light spots followed by a brown spot extending pointed 
to the fringe. Fringe brown, on the veins crossed by yellow. Hindwing brown. Body above brown, 
beneath yellowish. Madagascar. 
D. ochroderoea Mab. Forewing yellowish-brown, mixed with greyish black, with a yellow quadrangular ochroderoea 
spot in the cell with a black dot. A yellow band of oval spots from the costal margin right before the apex 
extends to the tornus, these spots being proximally margined black by a dentate stripe, distally by a row 
of spots. Hindwing uni-coloured blackish. Madagascar. 
D. nora Pagenst. In the colouring and marking very similar to the palearctic D. fascelina. Forewing nor a. 
violettish-grey with lighter and darker embedments. Antemedian transverse line blackish, almost straight, 
postmedian line slanting, distally bordered with reddish, proximally with blackish, the latter being split towards 
the costal margin, with proximal roundish projections. Terminal area lighter shaded, a blackish submarginal 
line therein. Hindwing grey, apex and distal margin darker. Expanse: 30 mm. Ganale, East Africa. 
D. grisea Pagenst. Abdomen on the ground blackish, then yellowish-brown with blackish rings and grisea. 
anus. Forewing ash-grey, base of wing whitish-grey, separated by the antemedian transverse stripe from the 
darker rest of the wing. Median line whitish, bordered by dark, at the costal margin triangularly widened, with 
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