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the hindwing a light line is marked before the margin. Beneath coloured almost as above. On the forewing the 
uniformly curved undulating line is distinct, the distal line shadow-like. On the hindwing the usual two lines 
are distinct, only the proximal one at the costal margin somewhat faded. Strand in describing his species 
already mentioned that the metallic spots from which the species derives its name are in fact rubbed off 
patches. 30 mm. Gold Coast. 
0. ochreipennis Strd. (41 b). Distal margin of forewing somewhat inserted below the apex. The whole ochreipen- 
insect above and beneath light ochreous. Forewing with a black dot at the lower angle of the cross-vein. The nts ‘ 
dark undulating line is hardly noticeable. At the distal margin behind the cell slightly brownish like the fringe. 
Beneath on the forewing the curved undulating line is rather distinct at the costal margin. On the hindwing 
the two lines are feeble, but extending in the normal way. 31 mm. Nyassa District. It may be that ochrei- 
pennis is merely a very light (and rubbed off) form of metallescens. 
0. leucoides Strd. (41 c) differs from all the others in the colour: hotly and wings yellowish white, leucoidc *. 
Head, upper edge of tegula, and metathorax rusty red. Of the same colour the anus and the upper surface 
of the tibiae. Cross-vein of forewing slightly rusty brown. Traces of a dark marginal line. Extremely similar 
to 0. waringi Snell. 21 to 23 mm. East Africa. Larva not described, probably on Ficus elastica. 
0. ficicola Westw. & Orm. is omitted here, since the description is too incomplete. According to ficicola. 
the figure in Oberthur Lep. Comp. IV, which however is not made from the type, the species is similar to 
signicosta Strd. 
Alphabetical List 
with reference to the original 
* signifies that the species 
albivertex Oc. Strd. Beil. Ent. Z. 55, p. 150. 
ficicola Oc. Westw. &. Orm. Ins. S.-Afrika p. 44. * 
iuscocervina Oc. Strd. Berl. Ent. Z. 55, p. 154. 
grisea Oc. Gaede, Seitz Macrolep. 14, p. 284. 
janthe Oc . Drc. Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond. 1887, p. 083. 
kolga Nor. Drc. Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond. 1887, p. 084. 
leucoides Oc. Strd. Berl. Ent. Z. 55, p. 150. 
descriptions of the African Bombycidae. 
is also figured at the place quoted. 
maculifrons Oc. Strd. Berl. Ent. Z. 55, p. 150. 
metallescens Oc. Mdschl. Abh. Senckbg. Nat. Ges. 15, p. 80. * 
obliquisigna Oc. Hrnps. A. M. N. H. (8) 5, p. 490. 
ochraceipennis Oc. Strd. Berl. Ent. Z. 55, p. 148. 
pallicornis Oc. Strd. Berl. Ent. Z. 55, p. 155. 
pruinosa Nor. Grunbg. Deutsche Ent. Z. 1907, p. 431. 
ruficollis Oc. Strd. Berl. Ent. Z. 55, p. 148. 
signicosta Oc. Strd. Berl. Ent. Z. 55, p. 151. 
