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dot of their area. Both wings besides with an irregular arcuate row of white antemarginal dots surrounded 
by blackish rings. Delagoa Bay. — maculigera Strd. (29 c) deviates by the forewing above being hardly darker maculujem. 
than the hindwing, and the submarginal dots being black without white centres. Tabora in German East Africa. 
—- An intermediary form between mdculigera and the type originates from the district of the Livingstone Fall 
of the River Zambesi. 
L. erythrura Auriv. Ochreous-yellow, the sides of the chest, the bases of the wings above, the meta- erythrura. 
dorsum, and the apex of the abdomen are clothed with red or reddish hair. The discal dot and the submarginal 
dots of the fore wing above are white indistinctly bordered with a dark colour. Hindwing above and both wings 
beneath with uni-coloured black submarginal dots. Belgian Congo. — marginata ab. nov., from Angola, differs maryinala. 
in the fore wing above being dark brown and in a broad dark marginal band on the hindwing above. 
3. Genus: Mesocelis Hbn. 
An isolated genus. Palpi small. Frons broad and flat, unarmed. Antennae of the A as far as the apex 
with two rows of pectinations. Eyes bare. Body covered with long hair; abdomen projecting beyond the 
hindwings almost by half its length. Wings short with a rounded entire distal margin; costal margin of hindwing 
almost straight with a large basal lobe. Forewing: veins 2 to 8 separate from the discal cell. 9 and 10 on a 
short fork, 9 into the apex or costal margin of the wing. Basal cell of hindwing narrow and small. — The 
pupa rests in a soft web in which soft dark hairs of the larva are scantily intermixed. 
M. montana Cr. (29 c). Body clothed with long brown hair. Wings almost black with white fringes monianci. 
and a large roundish white spot in the middle behind the apex of the discal cell (in the areas 3 to 5 or 6). 
South Africa: Cape Colony to Transvaal. 
4. Genus: I^eeliriolepis Wkr. 
The numerous species are very easily discernible by the marks stated in the table of genera; they have 
been several times mistaken for species of the genus Chrysopsyche, but they are not at all closely allied with 
them and exhibit quite a different arrangement of the veins in the hindwing, the veins 7 and 8 rising 
together (from the apex of the basal cell) and not distantly separated. Palpi short, not projecting beyond the 
frons. Antennae as far as the tips with two rows of pectinations; the pinnae are in the S long, in the $ very 
short. Frons flat without any prominence. Eyes small. Anterior tibiae unarmed, hind tibiae with two 
small terminal spurs. The sexes are very different, whereby the determination is rendered difficult. The normal 
marking of the forewing above consists of two dark transverse lines, an antemedian one and a postmedian 
one, of a dark spot on the cross-vein of the discal cell, and of a twice bent transverse row of submarginal spots 
which are large and brown in the $, but in the A whitish or leaden lustrous or entirely absent. Moreover, the 
AS are almost invariably distinguished by a whitish spot near the base of the costal margin on the hindwings 
beneath, and often also by a roundish white spot on the forewing above near the base in area lb. — The 
larvae are cylindrical, on all the joints uniformly long-haired, and on the sides of the joints 4 to 10 they exhibit 
groups of short silky hairs and on each of the joints 6 to 10 one quadrangular light dorsal spot composed 
of densely crowded short hairs. The web is soft, but very dense and intermixed with the larval hair. The 
species may be distributed upon the following three groups. 
First Group of Species. 
Vein 8 of forewing rises separately from the fork of the veins 6 and 7. The o is comparatively very small without 
a white spot at the base of the forewing above, but with a distinct light spot at the costal margin of the hindwing 
beneath. 
L. anoniala Bull. S (29 c) by its size and shape of the wings is very similar to the AS of Chryso- anomala. 
psyche imparilis (31 a) and vittata. Antennae black. Body with yellowish-brown hair; tarsi blackish. Wings 
on both sides reddish yellowish-brown without distinct markings. Forewing above and beneath in the middle 
covered with reddish, above with traces of the discal spot and of the distal transverse line, at the apex darker, 
greyish-brown. Hindwing above at the costal margin as far as vein 6 or 5 reddish, beneath at the base within 
the light yellow costal spot dark red-brown. — The $ is quite different and is very much like that of Chryso¬ 
psyche stumpfi Sacihn. (29 b), but it is smaller (41 to 50 mm) and instead of the broad sub marginal band it 
has only separate red-brown sub marginal spots. Forewing above varying from light yellow to orange- 
yellow, the narrow transverse lines and the discal spot being red-brown; the discal area is otherwise of the 
ground-colour. Hindwing above somewhat lighter yellow, in the centre often whitish, and at the centre of 
the costal margin in 6 and 7 with a red-brown transverse streak. Both wings beneath ochreous-yellow without 
markings. Antennal shaft yellowish, with short black pectinations. Tarsi apically darkened, blackish-grey. 
Madagascar. 
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