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LECHRIOLEPIS. By Dr. C. Aueivtllius. 
basirufa. 
varia. 
nigrivenis. 
icssmanni. 
conjuncta. 
ochraceola. 
griscola. 
Second Group of Species. 
Veins 7 and 8 of forewing rise on a joint fork from the apex of the discal cell or from the base of vein 6. The 
fringes of both wings are light grey, yellow or whitish. The first transverse line of the forewing is almost straight. The 
(JcJ are almost invariably with a distinct white spot above at the base of the forewing in area 1 b. 
L. basirufa Strd. (29 cl). <$. Both wings above with a bright yellow ground-colour. Forewing with 
a large white basal spot and distinct blackish transverse lines; the proximal transverse line is almost straight 
and vertical towards the anal margin, the distal line is straight from the costal margin to vein 7, then obtusely 
bent and in an almost straight line parallel to the margin reaching the centre of the hind-margin; the median 
area is at the costal margin about twice as broad as at the hind-margin. The submarginal spots form, as is 
usually the case in the species of this group, an indistinctly whitish band of a slight leaden gloss. Hindwing 
above from the apex to vein 3 with a broad olive-grey marginal band getting much narrower posteriorly, with 
traces of dark submarginal spots of a silky lustre in the areas 3 to 7. Wings beneath lighter yellow with large 
dark submarginal spots in nearly all the areas, and a large white spot near the base of the hindwing. — The 
$ numbers among the largest forms of the genus. The wings exhibit a bright ochreous-yellow ground-colour 
with red-brown markings; head, thorax, the basal area, and the proximal half of the anal margin of the forewing 
are reddish clothed with brown hair. The markings above are to be seen in the figm’e (29 cl); discal area of 
forewing of the ground-colour. Both wings beneath with distinct brown submarginal spots. Cameroon: Buea. 
- A magnificent larva having been brought home from Cameroon by SjosTEDT probably belongs to this species. 
Head and body brown with numerous yellow longitudinal lines; the long hair are light yellow r on the sides, 
blackish on the dorsum; the first joint has two bluish quadrangular spots on the dorsum and on each side a 
very long black hair-pencil. The silky-haired lateral spots are in the centre black, surrounded loy white and 
thereby almost like eyes; the dorsal spots of the joints 6 to 10 are white. 
L. varia Walk. Only the $ is known and so briefly described that it is impossible to ascertain the 
species. The description runs as follows: ,,Brick-coloured. Head, thorax, chest, and legs fawn-coloured, 
Abdomen at the apex covered with dense woolly hair. Wings with three irregular, slanting, dentate, fawn- 
colourecl transverse bands; the third is broader than the two others, and near the margin. Fore wing with an 
irregular fawn-coloured ring-spot between the first and second bands. Length of body: 26 mm; expanse of 
wings about 76 mm.“ The species must be closely allied or identical with L. basirufa. Strand considers it 
to be a form allied with basirufa, in which the transverse lines are very indistinct; Walker’s description, 
however, is rather contradictory to this explanation. 
The following eight species are so very similar to L. basirufa that it suffices to state the differences and to refer to 
the figures. 
L. nigrivenis Strd. (29 d, e). <§. The two transverse lines of the forewing are brownish, at the costal 
margin not twice as distant from each other as at the hind-margin; the distal line is sharply broken in a right 
angle at vein 8. Hindwing with a uniformly rounded distal margin. $. Veins of both wings at the distal margin 
rather broad black. Median area of forewing in the areas 2 to 4 filled with red-brown; submarginal spots large, 
almost entirely united into a band. South Cameroon: Alen. 
L. tessmanni Strd. (29 e). Forewing in both sexes rather pointed, not rounded off. S'. The distal 
transverse line of the forewing at vein 7 almost rectangularly broken, then between vein 7 and the anal margin 
distinctly, though feebly bent. South Cameroon: Alen. — Together with a J, which corresponds with L. tess¬ 
manni. , a $ was bred near Mukimbunga in the Congo District, which is similar to the 9 of L. conjuncta and 
has the same greyish-yellow ground-colour of both wings. From the $ of L. conjuncta, however, it differs in 
the median area of the forewing being much narrower at the costal margin and covered with light violettish- 
brown at the costal margin and anal margin, and in the violettish-brown submarginal spots of the forewing 
being united into a submarginal band. The distal median line of the forewing is like in the <$, though somewhat 
more bent. — The larva is jet-black with bluish-grey tubercles on all the joints and two bluish-grey dorsal 
spots on the first joint; hair very long, dark brown; first joint without long hair-pencils. Cocoon soft, grey 
with intermixed black hairs. Pupa bare, glossy, dark brown, behind obtusely rounded off with a group of 
densely crowded bristly hairs. 
L. conjuncta Griinb. (29 e). <$. Hindwing with a uniformly rounded margin. Wings, above bright 
ochreous-yellow, only at the costal angle of the hindwing broadly darkened by olive-grey. $. Wings above 
with a greyish-yellow ground-colour and dark red-brown markings. Median area of forewing not darkened, 
of the ground-colour. Uganda and Cameroon. 
L. ochraceola Strd. (29 f). Only the $ is known so far. Body and wings of a bright light ochreous colour; 
the transverse lines of the fore wing are fine, brownish, the distal line between the vein 7 and the anal margin 
almost straight. Distal margin of hindwing uniformly rounded. German East Africa: Amani. 
L. griseola sp. n. <$. Antennal shaft white, pinnae black. Body with greyish-yellow or brownish- 
yellowish hair. Wings above yellowish-grey, only in the basal portion more yellowish scaled. First transverse 
