DIPLURIELLA; ANCHIRITRA; PSEUDOLYRA. By Dr. C. Aurivillius. 
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brown. Abdomen above and laterally dark brown, speckled with yellowish, beneath yellowish. Forewing 
mahogany-red, speckled with yellowish, at the anal margin with dark-brown hair; transverse lines and discal 
spot yellowish, the former indistinct; a blackish submarginal dot in area 7 and traces of a similar dot in 6. Hind¬ 
wing blackish, at the costal margin and distal margin mahogany-red. Expanse of wings: 32 mm. — In the $ 
the antennal pectinations are honey-coloured, and the forewing is liver-brown with similar transverse lines 
and yellowish powdering. Expanse of wings: 38 to 40 mm. Rhodesia. 
Ps. patagiata Auriv. (37 c) differs from all the other species in the yellow patagia and the marking of patagiata. 
the forewing. The stalk of veins 9 and 10 of the forewing is shorter than the veins. Nigeria: Sapele. 
The following species has, I am sorry to say, remained unknown to me. Tams unhesitatingly places 
it to Pseudometa. Strand, however, established a new genus Gastroplakaena for it. The only certain difference 
evinced by the description is the anal wool of the $. — Subordinate genus ?: Gastroplakaena Strd. 
Ps. punctipennis Strd. Forewing bark-brown with a light grey discocellular punctiform transverse punctipen- 
spot being slightly convex towards the base and 9 mm distant from the base, as well as with a particularly ms 
in front distinctly marked row parallel to the margin of black angular sublimbal punctiform spots which are 
2 mm distant from the margin; midway between the discocellular spot and base, a dark transverse line is 
hardly recognisable, and a dark undulating transverse line being behind distally lighter is indistinctly visible 
midway between the discocellular spot and the sublimbal spots. Beneath as above without any other markings 
but the sublimbal spots indistinctly showing through and the marginal area between them and the margin 
being somewhat lighter. Hindwing above blackish-brown with lighter fringes, beneath like the forewing 
without any other markings than the lighter colouring along the margin. Body coloured like the wings. Anal 
wool light yellowish, with a silky gloss. Antennae blackish with yellowish pectinations.“ Expanse of wings: 
42 mm. South Cameroon: Alen. 
8. Genus: i>i]>lliriella Strand. (Diplura Ramb.) 
Small Geometrids with broad wings, distinguished from the other Gonometinae by the veins 6 and 7 of 
the fore wing not being stalked. 
D. affinis Auriv. (37 d). <$ unknown. The $ is very similar to the $ of D. loti Ochs. (Vol. II, p. 162, affinis. 
pi. 26 d) and, as the figure shows, differs in the marking only in the rather broad, blackish distal border of 
the white transverse line of the forewing. In the neuration it differs in the basal cell of the hindwing being 
closed by a very short cross-vein and exhibiting a long bent accessory vein. It is doubtfoul whether it is a 
genuine Dipluriella. Madagascar. 
D. songeana Strd. (37 d) is known to me only from the figure. From the description we may add: songeana. 
forewing beneath fawn-coloured, more intensely reddened than the hindwing above; at the end of the cell a 
small heap of erect scale-hairs. Hindwing beneath lighter than above; costal margin dark violettish-brown, 
fringes of the same colour. Nothing is mentioned about the generic marks. It is questionable whether it is 
a Dipluriella. $ unknown. German East Africa: Songea. 
9. Genus: AneSifritra Bull. 
Palpi short, densely haired. Forewing short but narrow with a rounded apex; veins 4 and 5 separate, 
6 and 7 stalked, 8 from the discal cell, 9 and 10 longer than their stalk. 9 into the apex. Hindwing: veins 
4 and 5 on a short stalk; basal cell long and large with a short accessory vein. Costal margin of hindwing 
almost straight. Fringes broad. 
A. insignis Butl. (38 a). <$. Antennae with uniformly long pectinations. Abdomen elongate. Colour and insignis. 
marking to be seen from the figure. $ unknown. Madagascar. 
A. (?) pimctuligera Mab. ,,Forewing violettish-grey strewn with very small black dots; at the posterior punctulige 
margin a rather broad, light ochreous longitudinal stripe ending at the anal angle; a similarly coloured stripe 
extends through the discal cell along the costal margin; fringes of the colour of the wing. Hindwing yellowish- 
white. Beneath the wings are whitish-grey, at the distal margin and costal margin of the forewing darker. 
Antennae bent and with long pectinations.” Madagascar. 
10. Genus: S*seiulol t vr;i Auriv. 
The species of this genus were formerly ranged with Anadiasa, but they differ externally in the shorter 
and broader, apically more rounded forewings and in the long, rough fringes of the wings being formed as 
in the species of Olyra. In the neuration Pseudolyra closely corresponds with Anadiasa, but it seems to differ 
