strandi. 
cuneilinea. 
jamesoni. 
discoceUu- 
laris. 
elegans. 
234 TARA GAMA. By Dr. C. AuRivtLLltrs. 
C. strandi nom. nov. (= bimaculata Strd. non Walk.) (31 e) only differs from C. produeta in the darker, 
more monotonously grey upper surface of the fore wing and the lighter, more hrown hindwing. $ unknown. 
German East Africa. 
C. cuneilinea Walk. (= bimaculata Walk.) (31 e). This species is likewise very similar to produeta, 
but considerably larger and separated both by the colouring and marking. The forewing is above lighter grey, at 
the anal angle more or less whitish and nearly everywhere distinctly speckled with dark brown; the dark median 
transverse band is much broader and particularly separated by being on both sides irregularly indented; in 
undamaged specimens the body above shows two whitish spots, one on the metadorsum and one on the fust 
joint of the abdomen. The hindwing is above brownish fawn-coloured with darker nebulous bands. Wings 
beneath with two transverse bands, and at the costal margin of the forewing with a blackish ground-colour; 
hindwing beneath, however, much lighter than above. — The larva is more cylindrical than that of C. produeta, 
its ground-colour is black with broad white longitudinal lines of the joints 4 to 11. Head dark bluish-grey 
with black dots and black hair. The first joint in the anterior half black, behind bluish-grey, between these 
two colours with a transverse row of dark hairs. Joints 2 and 3 above blackish with small white spots and 
numerous black and few yellow needles. The joints 4 to 10 at the costal margin and hind-margin with a transverse 
row of bright orange-yellow spines which are in front more or less densely bordered by black needles. Cocoon 
brown with black needles. Natal. 
C. jamesoni B.-Bak. (= violascens Auriv.). Head, thoracal dorsum, chest, abdomen beneath, forewing 
above, and in the $ also the apex of the abdomen very dark red-brown, partly slightly hued with a dark violet. 
Abdomen above in the dark fawn-coloured, in the $ qellow almost to the apex. Fore wing above with a small 
white discal dot, a rather indistinct, usually double grey postmedian transverse band and an often indistinctly 
notched sub marginal line. Hindwing in the fawn-coloured yellow with dark brown fringes and a dark nebulous 
band above the centre, in the $ at the base yellow, at the margin very broadly suffused with red-brown and in 
the middle generally with a brown nebulous band. Wings beneath at the base yellow, distally more (forewing) 
or less (hindwing) darkened by red-brown with yellowish veins and two dark transverse bands. Cocoon large, 
elliptic, light grey, scantily set with black needles. Rhodesia; Mashuna Land; Nyassa Land. German East 
Africa: Kigonsera. 
Second Group of Species. 
Metadorsum without a white spot. Hindwing above light yellowish, at the hind-margin somewhat fawn-coloured; 
its fringes partly brown. Smaller species with an expanse of 40 {$) to 60 ($) mm. 
C. discocellularis Strd. (31 e). In the the head and dorsum are greyish-brown, abdomen above 
fawn-coloured with a blackish anal pencil. Forewing above almost monotonously dark fawn-coloured with 
very indistinct transverse bands, a fine submarginal line and a minute white discal streak. Forewing beneath 
fawn-coloured with two darker transverse bands and lighter veins. Hindwing beneath honey-coloured without 
transverse lines. The $ is much larger with more distinct transverse bands, the arrangement of which is to 
be seen from the figure; abdomen above yellowish,'beneath brown. Spanish Guinea. Nyassa Land. — Two 
light greenish parchment-like cocoons received at the same time with the imagines from Nyassa Land probably 
belong to this species. 
C. elegans Auriv. (32 a) is closely allied to the species mentioned last, but it differs in the lighter colouring 
and more distinct markings. Head and dorsum above grey, speckled with dark. Forewing generally with a 
lighter yellow apical spot and also in the discal cell similarly brightened up; the transverse streaks of the sub¬ 
marginal line are often broken up into three dark dots arranged in a triangle; a distinct white transverse streak 
at the end of the discal cell. $ unknown. South Cameroon. 
15. Genus: Tarag’itiBisi Moore 
This genus containing a great number of species is represented in the palearctic and Indo-Australian 
as well as in the Ethiopian Region. The are smaller than the $$ and often also very much distinguished 
from them by the marking and shape of the hindwing. The neuration has already been described in the 
table of genera. Last palpal joint short, somewhat drooping. Eyes bare. Anterior tibiae unarmed. Hind tibiae 
only with terminal spurs. The $<$ are distinguished by a long and slender abdomen with a long though thin hair- 
pencil, and narrow pointed forewings. The $$ without anal wool. The marking of the forewing above is very 
characteristic; it consists of a dark, sometimes indistinct dot or transverse streak at the end of the discal cell, 
two light or dark transverse lines outside the discal cell and an often quite indistinct submarginal line. The 
genus is accordingly distinguished by the subbasal transverse line of the forewing being entirely absent and the 
two other transverse lines running behind the discal cell; in some species of the first group there occurs in the 
areas 1 a to 2 a white transverse line which appears to be a subbasal transverse line, though in fact it is 
the ; osterior end of the sharply curved or often interrupted first transverse line (cf. the figure of cristatum) 
(32 a). Hindwing above without markings or with a light transverse band. The patagia (shoulder-covers) 
