Publ. 24. 1. 1927. 
CATALEBEDA. By Dr. C. Aurivillius. 
brown or bluish-grey, on the sides densely clothed with long light hair, the magnificent spots are brown or 
black with brown or orange-yellow borders; dorsal tubercles small black or partly orange-yellow; head dark 
bluish-grey or brown, densely haired. South and West Africa at least as far as Cameroon (Bamenda). — nigro- nigrovittata. 
vittata var. nov. (35 c) is a A form lying before me from the Kilima Njaro in several specimens. It differs so 
much from the typical A A, that I should not have hesitated to regard it as a separate species, if there had not 
been distinct transitions to the typical form. Forewing above in the marginal area as far as the discal line 
and from the costal margin to the vein 3 blackish-grey; a deep black longitudinal stripe from the base of the 
wing to the apex of the discal cell, where it unites with the marginal area and encloses the white discal dot; 
the first transverse line is rather indistinct, the second transverse line is not straight, but in area 5 deeply bent 
towards the base, so that it reaches the apex of the discal cell, and is then continued in a straight line to the 
hind-margin; anal pencil long grey or blackish. Hindwing light grey, yellowish white, or almost white. 
B. bipars Walk. (? — incompta Walk.). Whether this species being unknown to me differs from bipars. 
indecora or not, cannot be decided from the brief description which was made according to a 9; if runs as 
follows: ,.Light brownish fawn-coloured. Antennae yellowish. Abdomen and hindwing dull yellowish. Forewing 
with two narrow, almost straight, slanting, light yellowish transverse bands approaching each other a little 
towards the hind-margin; a distal, interrupted, oblique, light yellowish zigzag-line is towards the margin bordered 
with dark. Wings beneath yellowish at the base and with a yellowish median band.“ Port Natal. 
Herrich-Schaeffer places his Gastropacha protracta to bipars Walk. This identification can, however, not be correct, 
and H. -Schaeffer’s species probably does not originate from South Africa, but from Asia, the Metanastria -species of which 
it resembles very much. 
14. Genus: Catalebecla Auriv. 
A very natural genus which does not only differ in the neuration (see above p. 215) but also in the long 
palpi and the quite peculiarly shaped submarginal line of the forewing from the allied Asiatic genus Metanastria 
(type hyrtaca Cr., cf. Vol. X pi. 34 e) and from all the other Ethiopian Lasiocampidae. The submarginal line 
consists in all the areas (1 b—8) of a fine transverse streak which is in the centre distally very long and 
sharply notched and the shape of which is best seen from the figure. In some species, however, the submarginal 
line is more or less indistinct. Palpi straightly porrect, almost twice as long as the head, densely and smoothy 
scaled. Eyes bare. Antennae bipectinate; pinnae of the A antenna in the basal half very much prolonged. 
Anterior tibiae unarmed; hind tibiae only with terminal spurs. Tarsi with appressed scales. Forewing of A 
longer and narrower than in the $; A with a long anal pencil; $ without anal wool. As to the neuration, 
we refer to the table of genera. — The larva is beneath flattened, in front in the thoracal part often somewhat 
thickened, with very long and long-haired lateral cones of the joints 1 to 3; the following joints are at the anterior 
and posterior margins set with needles and stiff hairs, but in the middle bare or scaled, whereby often bright- 
coloured broad belts are produced. The pupa rests in a parchment-like cocoon which is more or less armed 
with the sharp needles of the larva. 
First Group of Species. 
Metadorsum above with a sharply defined white or light spot. Hindwing above dark (blackish-grey, g'rey, brown, 
fawn-coloured, or at least with a broad red-brown marginal band). Large species with an expanse of 59 to 100 mm in the 
d, of 83 to 110 mm in the $. 
C. producta Walk. (31 e, 35 d). A- Blackish-grey or dark grey; abdomen laterally brown with a producta, 
black anal pencil. Fore wing above dark grey, at the base of the hind-margin covered with red-brown hair and 
with three dark nebulous bands, the first of which is about 5 mm broad, almost equally broad and more 
distinct than the two distal ones; it is almost vertical to the centre of the hind-margin. Hindwing above dark 
grey with three bent nebulous bands and a blackish-grey area near the hind-margin. Beneath blackish-grey 
with lighter veins and traces of the nebulous bands above. The $ is much larger and lighter coloured. On the 
forewing above there are four indistinct narrower nebulous bands, and the red-brown hairing at the hind-margin 
is but feebly marked; a light discal dot is more distinct than in the A> where it can hardly be discovered. The 
hindwing is more scantily scaled, almost monotonously brownish-grey, the fringes apically darkened. Both 
the wings beneath greyish-brown with two distinct almost straight nebulous bands and a finely speckled marginal 
area. — The larva is blackish with a dark head and rather thickened thoracal joints; the first joint is very 
short, almost uni-coloured black, but at the anterior margin clothed with a broad fringe of long white or yellowish 
scales, surrounding the head like a collar. The joints 2 to 4 are above densely set with sharp brown, yellow, 
or black needles; on the sides above the appendages the needles are absent and replaced by light scales; scales 
are also interspersed between the needles. The joints 5 to 11 have a broad whitish belt, on each side parted 
by a narrow black groove and formed of densely crowded large light scales. Cameroon. 
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