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DASYCHIRA. By Dr. M. Hering. 
phoca. 
griseinubes. 
leucogram- 
ma. 
stegmanni. 
obliquili- 
nea. 
batoides. 
plotzi. 
cymatopho- 
rina. 
diatoma. 
stenoptera. 
melanoproc- 
tis. 
orplnnina. 
multilinea. 
a dark cross-vein dot therein. Postmedian band dark, indistinct. Hindwing grey, distally darker, with a marginal 
row of punctiform dots, a dot on the cross-vein and a submarginal band. Expanse: 55 mm. Abyssinia. 
D. phoca Hmps. Abdomen ochreous yellowish-brown, without dorsal tufts. Forewing yellowish- 
brown with a coppery gloss. Subbasal line and the indistinct undulate antemedian line blackish, at the cross¬ 
vein blackish streaks. An undulate line from the posterior angle of the cell to the hind-margin. Postmedian 
line indistinct, at the costal margin somewhat dentate, below vein 4 inwardly bent. Subterminal line blackish, 
at veins 6 and 4 distally bent, a row of black crescents at the margin. Hind wing whitish, with an ochreous- 
brownish tint. In the $ the forewing is almost entirely suffused with blackish-brown. Hindwing whitish with 
a blackish-brown tint. Expanse: 36 to 38 mm. Uganda. 
D. griseinubes Hmps. Body reddish-ochreous, forewing the same, powdered with red-brown. Antemedian 
line bent, red-brown, proximally bordered with yellow, distally followed by a grey band which is indistinctly 
forked at the costal margin. Macula at the cell-end distally with long teeth on veins 6 and 4 extending to the 
strongly dentate postmedian line; the tooth on vein 4 almost reaches the margin; below vein 3 this line is 
double. Marginal area red-brown with a dark thin marginal line. Hindwing reddish-ochreous. Expanse: 
42 mm. South Nigeria. 
D. leucogrannna Hmps. (28 b). Veins 3 -f- 4 in the hindwing rise on a very long stalk. Body white, 
mixed with red-brown, abdomen white. Forewing white, suffused with red-brown. Below the cell a white 
longitudinal streak. A slanting white line from the costal margin before the middle towards the basal portion 
of the white longitudinal streak, another line from the same place at the costal margin to beyond the centre 
of the streak, where it unites with a slanting white line from the costal margin before the apex. Hindwing purely 
white. Expanse: 24 mm. Sierra Leone. 
D. stegmanni Griinb. (25 b). Body blackish-brown, abdomen lighter with dark dorsal tufts. Forewing 
dark-brown. Subbasal line blackish, only distinct below the cell. Antemedian line below the cell double; a 
black streak right before the macula at the cell-end. Postmedian line indistinct, distally to it above the tornus 
a dark spot, between veins 3 and 4 a yellowish crescent. Subterminal line composed of internerval streaks. All 
the transverse lines are distinctly bordered by a bluish-green hue. Hindwing greyish-brown. Lake Kiwu, 
Central Africa. 
D. obliquilinea Fawc. is allied to D. nubifera Holl., without the greenish tint on the forewing. Basal 
streak as in nubifera , antemedian line straighter, subterminal line zigzag-shaped. In the hindwing besides the dark 
cross-vein spot at the hind-margin the beginning of a median band, at the apex a dark terminal spot. Expanse: 
50 mm. East Africa. 
D. batoides Pltz. (23 i) in the marking recalls Tliyatira batis (Vol. II, pi. 49 e). Abdomen and wings 
dark brownish-grey. Forewing before the apex with an oblong white, centrally strangulated whitish spot; 
a similar one at the hind-margin almost extends to the base. West Africa. 
D. plotzi ■sp. n. (27 c) is quite similar to batoides, the subapical spot is broken up into 2 circular spots; 
at the hind-margin a circular spot at the tornus, a much smaller one before y 2 on vein 1 b and another larger 
one at the base. Thorax except collar above whitish. $ type from Lolodorf, Cameroon, in the Berlin Museum. 
At the same habitat a different form: cymatophorina form. nov. (27 c) was taken, which may represent a 
distinct species. It is smaller, all the spots are filled up with yellow, the most central spot on the hind-margin 
is as large as the others, the ground-colour of the forewing is not chocolate-brown, but blackish olive-green. 
$ type in the Berlin Museum. 
D. diatoma sp. n. (25 c). In the habitus similar to D. danva, but in the forewing the antemedian and 
postmedian lines are distinct, partly bordered with whitish. Fringe not speckled. Hindwing blackish-brown 
with a yellow central area which is crossed broadly with black by the cross-vein, fringe yellow. Under surface 
the same, but in the forewing blackish-brown with a yellow spot distally to the cross-vein, and a long yellow 
longitudinal stripe below the cell. $ type from East Usambara in the Berlin Museum. The West African race: 
stenoptera subsp. nov. (25 c) has a narrower forewing which is slightly concave at the margin below vein 4, 
and it is much darker, the yellow markings of the forewing beneath are somewhat reduced. G type from 
Spanish Guinea in the Berlin Museum. 
D. melanoproctis sp. n. (25 a). Uni-coloured white, tarsi, anterior femora, anal tuft, and apices of 
some fringes in the forewing brownish-black. $ type from Lolodorf, Cameroon, in the Berlin Museum. 
D. orphnina sp. n. (27 c). Forewing violettish-brown, at the hind-margin from the posterior ante¬ 
median line to the tornus broadly greyish-whitish. The lines are violettish-grey, two antemedian lines being 
rather remote from each other and two postmedian lines being nearer to each other. Submarginal line composed 
of blackish dots basally light-pupilled, the brightening gradually widening towards the tornus and thus passing 
over into the light liindmarginal stripe. Hindwing brownish-grey, the spot on the cross-vein being darker. 
Abdomen as well as hindwing without dorsal tufts. $ type from Lolodorf, Cameroon, in the Berlin Museum. 
D. multilinea sp. n. (27 d). Body brownish-grey, forewing brownish-grey with 4 darker transverse lines, 
the two remote antemedian ones of which are almost straight, whilst the postmedian line is very convex, the 
