Publ. 22. I. 1927. 
BERALADE. By Dr. C. Aurivillius. 
225 
B. pygmula Strd. is unknown to me, but judging from the description it is apparently allied with pygmula. 
B. simplex. One of the smallest species of Beralade. Forewing reddish-brown with a black punctiform 
discocellular spot and two light greyish transverse lines bordering on the median area, reaching both the costal 
margin and anal margin and being almost straight. Hindwing darker brown; uni-coloured. Fringes like the 
wings. Expanse of wings: 20 mm. Transvaal: Pretoria. 
Third Group of Species. 
The species of this group are at once recognisable by the white transverse spot at the end of the discal cell of 
the forewing. They were formerly ranged with a special genus ( Chilena ) being also represented in Asia, but morphologically 
they do not differ from Beralade. The two first species exhibit three dark, almost straight slanting transverse lines on the 
forewing, the first of which only extends from the discal spot to the anal margin. The others only exhibit a single 
transverse band about midway between the apex of the discal cell and the distal margin, slantingly extending from the anal 
margin to the apex of the wing and being often proximally bordered with white. 
B. prompta Walk. (= plusioides Walk.) is a species not being rare in South Africa. Forewing with prompta. 
three dark oblique lines and a white straight transverse streak at the end of the discal cell entirely as in 
B. interjecta (30 e). Forewing at least in the basal half covered with reddish, fawn-coloured, in the marginal 
portion sometimes lighter, greyish. Hindwing on both sides hued with reddish, with a lighter or darker ground¬ 
colour. South Africa. — rufotincfa Strd. is said to be somewhat larger and darker, the wings being reddish rufotincta. 
as far as the distal margin; the third transverse line is distinct towards the base, bordered by white. Betchouana 
Land, Natal, and Mikindani in East Africa. 
B, interjecta Auriv. (30 e) is very closely allied to prompta and may be only a form of it. The $ differs interjecta. 
in the forewing above being in the basal portion yellowish-brown or greyish-brown (not reddish-brown) and 
the hindwing being white or light grey. Abdomen often purely white. South Africa. 
B. donaldsoni Holl. The white transverse streak at the end of the discal cell of the forewing is reverted donaldsoni. 
towards the base at the posterior angle of the cell and is continued almost to the centre of the cell; the portion 
showing towards the base is much longer than the transverse streak. The blackish submarginal oblique band 
is not or only feebly undulate, uniformly bent and generally on the inside broadly bordered with white. In 
the typical form the forewing above is light fawn-coloured, at the margin lighter, and the hindwing is white 
or whitish without a dark spot at the anal angle. Kilima-Njaro to Somaliland. — marshalli Auriv. (30 d), marshalli. 
from the Transvaal and Mashona-Land, only differs in the brownish-grey or greyish ground-colour of the fore wing, 
the straighter or irregularly bent submarginal band of the forewing, and in a blackish spot at the anal angle 
of the hindwing. 
B. breyeri Auriv. (= intermedia Auriv. i. 1.) is very similar to donaldsoni, but differs in the white breyeri. 
discal streak of the forewing being only somewhat thickened or very shortly reverted towards the base at the 
posterior angle of the cell. Thorax and forewing above grey or brownish-grey; the oblique band of the forewing 
is almost straight, proximad bordered with whitish. Hindwing whitish, at the distal margin and anal angle 
speckled with dark. Forewing beneath grey with light veins. Abdomen above more or less darkened. Transvaal. 
— ab. intermedia Auriv. Both wings at the distal margin broad dark grey with whitish veins. Transvaal. intermedia. 
B. strigifascia Hmps. (30 e). Head, thorax, and forewing above red-brown. Discal streak of forewing not strigifascia. 
reverted towards the base, small and equally broad. Submarginal band dark brown, on the veins blackish, towards 
the base broadly bordered with white. Hindwing white with two reddish spots at the anal angle. Very similar 
to breyeri from which it only differs in the colouring and shape of the discal spot on the fore wing. Ruwenzori. 
B. levenna Wallgr. (30 d) is allied to the two last species by the small discal spot being only slightly 
thickened at the anal angle, but not long-extended towards the base, and by the coherent submarginal band 
of the forewing. Body and wings with a purely grey ground-colour and grey, sometimes somewhat dark-spotted 
fringes. Eye-circle blackish. Pectinations of antennae light yellowish. Forewing above light grey, bluish-grey, 
or dark grey, at the apex of the discal cell always more or less blackish. The species is particularly distinguished 
by the almost straight, sharply angled or notched black submarginal line being proximad nob bordered 
or only with light grey. Hindwing above grey, sometimes with a transverse row of dark streaks on the veins. 
Both wings beneath mouse-coloured without markings. Transvaal, Natal. — ab. micromacula Strd. only differs micromacu- 
in the discal spot of the fore wing being not reverted at all at the posterior angle. South Africa. la - 
B. punctulata Auriv. differs from the other species of this group in the submarginal line of the forewing punctulata. 
not being coherent but composed of separate black dots or streaks on the veins, d 1 . Head, thorax, and legs 
uni-coloured, grey. Palpi brown. Antennae white with yellowish pinnae. Abdomen whitish. Forewing above 
whitish, speckled with brown scales; a white spot at the apex of the discal cell, and a straight submarginal 
row of black dots on the veins 2 to 6. Hindwing above white without markings. Fore wing beneath greyish 
with traces of 2 or 3 darker longitudinal streaks in the areas 5, 8 and 9. Hindwing beneath whitish. Expanse 
of wings: 28 mm. Nigeria. 
B. parva Auriv. (30 d) is a small, very dark species which, however, resembles somewhat B. levenna. parva. 
Head and thorax above blackish-grey. Chest, legs, and abdomen lighter, yellowish brown; tarsi almost black 
XIV 
29 
