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the spot on the cross-vein is black, clistally broad brown. Marginal area whitish-grey with 2 blackish spots 
at the apex. Hindwing blackish-grey. Lower Guinea, German East Africa. 
0. nigrocristata Joic. <L Talb. Forewing greyish-brown, marked black and white. At the base a black nigrocrista- 
costal-marginal spot, continued in a transverse line towards the hind-margin. Close next to it a black dot below 
the cell. Antemedian line black, strongly angled. The black macula on the cross-vein does not reach to the 
posterior margin of the cell. The black postmedian line is broken below the costal margin and at vein 6, and 
ends at vein 4. Another postmedian line distally to it, very undulate, almost parallel to the margin, distally 
bent at vein 2. The submarginal line is interrupted at the veins. Before the apex 3 black costal-marginal spots, 
some more black spots in cells 7 to 1 c, the last being the largest. All the black spots and lines are mostly 
bordered with greyish-white, a white dot in the cell between the antemedian line and postmedian line. The 
greatest part of the costal margin is black, the cells 2 to 4 black, excepting a round spot of the ground-colour 
near the margin. Fringes speckled light and dark. Hindwing yellowish-grey, powdered with purple brown, at 
the margin darker. Abdomen yellowish-grey with black dorsal tufts. Expanse about 40 mm. Lake Albert. 
84. Genus: Lyniillltriii IIbn. (= Liparis Ochs., Palasea Wllgr.). 
Hind tibiae with 2 pair of spurs, forewing without an accessory cell, 10 to 7 forked, 10 rising before 7. 
In the hindwing veins 6 and 7 separated. Some specimens have sometimes 2, sometimes only 1 pair of spurs 
on the hind tibiae, so that the genus is difficult to separate from Aclonophlebia. 
L. atala Swnh. (= binotata Mab.). Fore wing white, at the costal margin 4 or 5 black spots, the 2 nd atala. 
and 3 rd extended into a short sinuate transverse band. The last of these spots is followed on the disc by 
2 or 3 spots forming an incomplete row of spots parallel to the margin. At the latter a row of black dots. 
Hind wing white with small and indistinct marginal dots. Body white, thorax with a few yellow dots. Size 
of L. monacha L. Madagascar. 
L. tacita sp. n. (25 d). Body light grey, palpi, collar above, base of patagia, and spots on the thorax tadta. 
blackish. Forewing of a pure white with black markings: some spots in the subbasal area, a broad median 
band composed of black spots and at the hind-margin fused with the dentate postmedian band, subterminal 
line irregular, extending spot-like to the margin on veins 1 b and 4. Fringes white, black spots above the 
veins 2 to 7. Hindwing white with a black marginal spot above the tornus and traces of some more similar 
spots, beneath of a pure white. <$ type from Nairobi in the Tring Museum. 
L. rebuti Pouj. Forewing flesh-coloured, apex black, bordered by a sinuate line beginning in the centre rebuti. 
of the costal margin and terminating a little above the tornus. Hind-margin divided into 3 parts by two black 
spots; the distal spot is round and largest, the other being oblong and vertical; besides some more small black 
spots. Hinclwing uni-coloured, orange-yellow. Under surface yellow, only the apex of the forewing and. the cross¬ 
vein of the hindwing is black. Expanse: 29 mm. Madagascar. 
L. rusticana sp. n. (25 e). Similar to atala, with more abundant black markings of the forewings: rusticana. 
2 subbasal spots, an antemedian row of dots, a crescent at the cell-end; postmedian line with a large proximal 
projection below vein 1 c, a subterminal row of crescents and terminal dots. Body white, femora and hips 
pink, palpi outside and thorax above spotted black, frons with 2 yellow spots. Madagascar. A type from Diego 
Suarez in the Tring Museum. 
L. velutina Mab. (25 e). Forewing lustrous white. At the costal margin four black streaks, the basal velutina. 
ones representing a transverse line, in the cell rather indistinct, the apical ones double, a basal streak black. 
Hindwing dingy yellow, a black dot at the costal margin and a dark marginal band. Hindwing beneath yellow 
with 3 black dots, on the cross-vein, at the costal margin and tornus. Body yellowish. Expanse: 65 mm. 
Madagascar. 
L. nigrostriata Kenr. Body tan-coloured. Forewing white with scattered black scales, more densely nigrostria 
scaled at the base, costal-margin, and cell-end. Hindwing purely white, at the hind-margin yellowish. Expanse: 
38 mm. Madagascar. 
L. vacillans Wkr. (25 e). <£. Forewing brown with a whitish dentate subbasal and antemedian line, vacillans. 
a similar median line which is twice as broad from the costal margin to the posterior edge of the cell and contains 
a brown dot, a double postmedian line composed of crescents and being distally convex, with a terminal 
band of moon-spots, those between 4 and 5 and at the tornus being the largest. Fringes grey. Hindwing creamy- 
white with a cross-vein spot being distinct below. Body greyish-white, legs, palpi, base of antennae, and a 
spot behind the collar red. $ larger, in the forewing the brown markings are more extensive, the transverse 
lines more indistinct, partly obsolete, fringes red. Hindwing varying from whitish to pink, hyaline, fringes 
red. Another form with more extensive white markings has been described as (Abynotha) dubiosissima Strd., 
particularly the postmedian band is very broad. Strand considers it to be the $ of Abynotha preussi. Togo, 
Cameroon, Congo. 
la. 
dubiosissi¬ 
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