TARAGAMA. By Dr. C. AtirivillitjS. 
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T. bakeri Riel. <$. Body red-brown excepting the darker and more deeply coloured patagia; abdomen batceri. 
beneath with whitish transverse streaks. Forewing above red-brown with fine whitish transverse lines; the 
proximal line is bent distally convex, the distal one very feebly bent almost parallel with the margin. Anal- 
marginal area anteriorly defined by a white line. Expanse of wings: 34 to 38 mm. 9 unknown. Senegal. 
T. cervinum sp. n. The whole body together with the patagia and the under surface of the wings cervinum. 
fawn-coloured brown; head and collar somewhat darker; anal pencil dark brown. Fore wing above monotonously 
red-brown; transverse lines blackish, distally feebly bent convex, the distal line reaching the anal margin. Sub¬ 
marginal line indistinct. Anal-marginal area small, scarcely lighter than the ground-colour, at the base angular 
and there indistinctly bordered with white. Hindwing above light yellowish fawn-coloured, at the hind-margin 
covered with red-brown hair. Expanse of wings: 38 mm. Sierra Leone. 
T. basale Walk, may belong to this group. The description says: Grey. Antennae blackish, basale. 
Thorax behind on each side with a large rust-brown spot. Abdomen dull reddish-yellow. Legs yellowish. 
Fore wing red-brown with a black discal dot near the base, two black transverse lines distally bordered with 
white and some black dots near the margin. Hindwing fawn-coloured. Expanse of wings: about 36 mm.“ 
Sierra Leone. 
T. fuscum Auriv. (32 d). $. Blackish-grey. Patagia with a blackish-brown longitudinal spot, fuscum. 
Forewing with black, parallel, bent, distally convex transverse lines. Submarginal line scalariform, often 
proximad indistinctly bordered with yellow. Anal-marginal area small dark grey, near the base angular and 
there with a fine silvery border-line. Expanse of wings: 33 mm. — In the $ the forewing is more monotonously 
coloured and the anal-marginal area lighter. Expanse of wings; 50 mm. — British East Africa: Kikuyu; Uganda; 
Elgon. 
T. strandi nom. nov. (= [Pachypasa] tessmanni Strd.) (33 a). This excellent species was described strandi. 
as a Pachypasa, but owing to the non-forked veins 4 and 5 of the forewing it belongs to Taragama and to the 
fourth group (first subordinate group) of this genus, with the species of which it corresponds by the cpiite straight 
distal transverse line beginning at the costal margin far before the apex, the scalariform submarginal line, 
and the anal-marginal spot. From the other species of this subordinate group it differs in the undulate or 
almost notched margin in both wings, in the black proximal transverse line of the forewing being feebly distally 
bent from the costal margin to vein 2, then turning straight to the base of the wing and bending round at the 
base vertically to the anal-marginal area. The anal-marginal area is angled near the base and there with a 
short white transverse line exactly like in many other species of Taragama. The colouring and the rest of the 
marking is shown in the figure. The A is not known. Guinea: Alen. — As a Taragama tessmanni had already 
been described before, the name of this species had to be altered. 
Second subordinate group. 
The distal, generally dark transverse line of the forewing proceeds from the base of the wing or very 
near it, being straight or somewhat bent distally concave and reaching the anal-marginal area near its distal end. 
1. Species in which the anterior edge of the anal-marginal area of the forewing is uniformly bent or indistinctly 
angular as far as the base of the wing, and does not show a distinct white border. 
T. superbum Auriv. (32 f). Body with the patagia, hindwing and the anal-marginal area of the superbum. 
forewing light fawn-coloured. Forewing above at the base as far as the middle of the costal margin and in the 
areas 2 to 4 as far as beyond the transverse line yellow, then with a very large chestnut-brown area between 
the costal margin, vein 5 and the transverse line. Marginal portion violettish-grey with slanting red-brown 
transverse streaks in 4 to 7. The proximal transverse line is absent, the distal line is straight and posteriorly 
more indistinct. <$ unknown. Cameroon. 
T. graberi Dew. (32 e). $. Body above light grey, beneath greyish-brown. Patagia purely black, graberi. 
Forewing above in the basal third blackish, distally gradually lighter, at the margin dark grey; the proximal 
transverse line is hardly noticeable, the distal line feebly bent into the apex of the wing, outside of it there 
are 3 or 4 roundish yellowish spots in 5 to 8; anal-marginal area light grey, almost reaching the anal angle. - 
B (= sjostedti Auriv.) has a dark brown ground-colour on both wings above and dark red-brown patagia. The 
marking is shown in the figure (36 c; type of sjostedti). Congo District: Chinchoxo; Cameroon. 
T. fuligiriosum Holl. (33 b). By the kindness of Dr. Holland I received the figure of his species fuligino- 
which is reproduced here. Only the B is known. Holland describes it as follows: Allied with T. livida by sum ' 
the shape and size, but separated by the ground-colour being above and beneath sooty black. The broad distally 
widening median longitudinal stripe occurring in livida distinguishes also this species and is only separated 
from the ground-colour by its deeper black colour. The transverse lines of the forewing as well as the light 
submarginal dots are absent altogether. Expanse of wings: 40 mm.“ Ogowe River. 
T. guineanum Strd. (33 b) is very similar to T. graberi and only differs in the darker colouring of guineanum. 
the body and hindwing. In the $ the distal dark transverse line of the fore wing is only noticeable between 
