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in cell 5. It is followed by a dark brown, light-centred, ring-like spot in the same cell in the distal angle of 
the dark median area, from which spot a fine brown line runs back obliquely to the centre of the costal 
margin. The veins 4 to 6 are in the centre of the wing coloured dark brown. The anal margin is covered with 
dark brown hair. Distal margin in both wings undulating.“ — ,,$■ Head, dorsum and abdomen brownish 
yellowish-grey, beneath almost quite brown. Collar and patagia dark brown. Fore wing brownish yellowish- 
grey, in the distal half od the wing rather densely covered with scattered dark brown scales. At the base of 
the costal margin there is a blackish-brown longitudinal spot, 18 mm long and 5 to 6 mm broad, posteriorly 
extending to the median vein, but anteriorly obliquely cut off, so that its length at the costal margin is only 
about 13 mm. Through the centre of the wing a faded brown transverse stripe, very much bent distally. 5 to 
6 mm distant from the distal margin there begins at the costal margin a notched stripe composed of scattered 
whitish grains of dust, which is bent far towards the base in the cells 5 and 2, but far bent towards the 
distal margin in the cells 4 and 3, and which terminates at the anal margin near the anal angle. The 
portion of the discal area touching this stripe on its inner side is in its whole extent coloured darker brown, 
particularly prominent is the darker colouring in the cells 3 and 4 in the angle made distally by the mentioned 
whitish dusty band, but then also in the cells 6 and 7. The anal margin is in its whole extent densely covered 
with mixed light and dark brown hairs. The veins are brownish oclrreous in the distal half of the wing; the 
fringes of the same colour. Hindwing in the basal half uni-coloured brownish yellowish-grey. In the centre 
of the costal margin there is the oblique beginning of a brown double stripe which, however, only reaches to 
vein 6. In the marginal half there is like in the fore wing a notched band composed of single white scales, on 
its proximal side broadly edged with brown. Fringes yellowish-brown. Expanse of wings: 110 mm.“ Benguella. 
I append here a species described as Lasiocampa, which however is said to be allied with Pachypasa otus, and another 
species mentioned as Metanastria. 
plngiogram- P. plagiogramma Mob. <$. Forewing narrow, at the distal margin very oblique and rounded off, 
m<x. brownish-grey, with a postmedian transverse band which is somewhat darker than the ground-colour and 
crossed by the thick black veins; this band begins at the costal margin near the apex of the wing, bending 
round before the anal angle and being continued almost parallel with the anal margin as far as the base of the 
wing. The marginal portion is grey and parted by a dentate blackish submarginal line which is bordered 
with whitish. Fringes blackish with light rusty red spots. Hindwing on both sides monotonously reddish- 
yellow. Forewing beneath in the centre blackish. Head, collar, and patagia grey, body otherwise above blackish 
with a large black hair-pad on the metadorsum. Body beneath blackish-brown. The $ is larger with broader 
wings and a transverse band being finely edged with grey. Madagascar. 
denticula. P. dettticula B.-Bak. , )( J. Palpi rusty brown. Head and thorax light fawn-coloured grey. Abdomen 
yellowish-brown, beneath greyish. Forewing reddish-grey with a double median, slanting, irregular transverse 
line of black dentate streaks which are sometimes broken up into black dots; the proximal line is dull grey; 
a similar double, serrate-dentate postmedian transverse line is only on its proximal line broken up into black 
dots. Hindwing straw-coloured, reddish behind the centre, and at the distal margin greyish. Expanse of wings: 
66 mm.“ North-Eastern Rhodesia. It is doubtful whether it is allied with P. meloui and punctulata. 
Note: P. concolor Rothsch,, from the Sahara, probably does not occur within the Ethiopian Region. 
17. Genus: ISraura Walk. 
Sometimes united with Taragama, but separated by the forked veins 4 and 5 of the forewing and the 
different fundamental marking of the forewing, whereby the genus corresponds with many species of Pachypasa, 
and only differs in the very short discal cell of the forewing and the somewhat larger basal cell of the hindwing, 
which is often closed by a longer cross-vein. The forewing is in both sexes narrow and elongate. 
truncata. B. tnincata Walk. (= ligniclusa Walk., picturata Griinb.) (34b <$). The $ is much larger (70 to 
85 mm) than the d and differs in the forewing showing at the costal margin as far as the proximal transverse 
line a broad fawn-coloured or brownish-yellow longitudinal area which is broader in the basal half and then 
suddenly grows narrower and is posteriorly bordered by the veins 6 and 7. Hindwing above whitish-yellowish 
with a narrow brown marginal band and dark fringes which are spotted yellowish at the ends of the veins. Head 
and collar grey or light brown, in both sexes always lighter than the thoracal dorsum. Hindwing of the $ 
occidentalis. varying from whitish to dark brown. South Africa. - occidental^ Strd. The $ differs in the lighter colouring, 
the hindwing being white, only at the distal margin very narrowly and in the terminal half of the costal- 
marginal area powdered, with brownish, but with yellowish-white veins. Forewing with a brownish-grey 
ground-colour; the longitudinal area in the costal half, which is lighter in the typical form, is here almost only 
recognisable by its bordering and it touches the costal margin almost as far as the end of the area, without 
any trace being present of the black longitudinal stripe occurring in the type; the veins in the marginal area 
