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PACHICISPIA; LYMANTRIADES; PARAPIRGA; CIFUNA. By Dr. M. Hering. 
meinickei. 
preussi. 
hylomima. 
picta. 
obliquali- 
nea. 
neurabrun- 
nea. 
nigroplaga- 
ta. 
A. meinickei sp. n. (26 g). Forewing blackish-brown w T ith a white central area almost filling up the 
cell and distally to it extending to V 2 of vein 2, the cross-vein, however, with a black macula. Hindwdng yellowish- 
white with a broad black marginal band. type from German East Africa in the Berlin Museum, collected 
by Meinicke. 
A. preussi Mob. (22 k, 23 a). Body blackish, abdomen with whitish or yellowish rings, with an ochreous- 
vellow anal tuft. Wings blackish-brown with a white central area; the other markings mostly indistinct. Only 
d'd' have become known. Cameroon. 
A. hylomima Holl. Its position is uncertain, according to the author it belongs hereto. Body brown, 
abdomen pale yellow, with 2 brown dorsal tufts. Forewing brown, at the costal margin and cell-end clouded in 
a darker colour. A double curved basal line and a similar antemedian line which is edged with a paler colour. 
At the cell-end a jet-black oval ring margined with wdiitish. ‘Apical area lighter. Limbal transverse line irre¬ 
gularly bent and dentate, behind it a row of sagittary spots, alternately white and deep black, then’ apices 
turned proximad. Behind them a brown band, then again a row of sagittary spots, apices turned distally, 
proximad bordered by white. Fringes brown, speckled with black. Hindwing blackish-grey. Expanse: <$ 53. 
$ 90 mm. Ogove. 
72. Genus: Pachicispia Btlr. 
Forewing without an accessory cell. Veins 8 9 fused, forked with 10; at the bottom of this fork 
vein 7 rises. Vein 6 rises together with the stalk from the same place, vein 5 from the centre of the cross-vein. 
In this mark it differs from all the Lymantriidae , and it may be better placed to the Notodontidae. 
P. picta Btlr. Forewing red-brown, powdered with grey anti black; antemedian and post median lines 
dentate, black, above the centre inwardly bent, the former proximally, the latter distally bordered by 4 ochreous 
spots; the belt enclosed by both the lines contains two silvery white dots on the hind-margin. Marginal area 
broadly ochreous-yellow, proximally deeply dentate, the distal margin again of the ground-colour. Hindwdng 
ochreous-yellow. Head white, above mixed wdth brown, collar pink, thorax and abdomen yellowy at the sides 
and end white. Expanse: 52 mm. Madagascar. 
73. Genus: Lyiiiaittriades B.-Bak. 
Hind tibiae with 2 pair of spurs, forelegs with tufted hair. Forewing without an accessory cell, veins 
10 to 7 forked, 10 rising behind 7. In the hindwing 3 + 4 and 6 + 7 forked. Distinguished from Euproctis 
in the vein 6 of the forewing rising very far away from the stalk of 7 to 10. 
L. obliqualinea B.-Bak. Body brown, palpi yellow, abdomen yellow, with black bands. Forewing 
dark brown with an almost straight antemedian line and an oblique postmedian line, the latter being distally 
broadly shaded with a darker colour, proximally to it lighter scaling. A slightly undulate subterminal line. 
Hindwing grey, towards the base much lighter. 
74. Genus: Parapirga B.-Bak. 
Forewing with a very long accessory cell, 11 from the discal cell, 7 rising before 10 from the accessory 
cell, connected with 6 by a cross-vein and at that place both the veins are nearer together; by this mark the 
genus is easily discernible. In the hindwing 6 + 7 forked. 
P. neural)runnea B.-Bak. Body grey, wings semi-hyaline, in the forewing all the veins and the distal 
margin are brown; hindwing only shortly before the margin with brown veins. Veins in the + paler. Expanse 
49 to 59 mm. Angola. 
75. Genus: Clil'iina Wkr. 
It seems as if this genus cannot be distinctly separated from Dasychira, for which reason it might be 
better united with it. 
C. nigroplagata B.-Bak. Body and wings dull cinnamon-brown, forewing with a large blackish spot 
at the cell-end, being extended towards the costal margin. At the origin of vein 3 traces of a dark stripe towards 
the centre of the hind-margin, traces of an irregular submarginal line, in the anterior portion with some dark 
dots. Hindwing wdth an indistinct cross-vein spot and an irregular submarginal band. Expanse: 36 mm. The 
species is apparently variable; frequently specimens are found, in which the marginal area of the fore wing, 
excepting the apical region, is dark brown; such specimens seem to predominate in Cameroon, representing a 
