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to postmedialis , behind it 3 more parallel, somewhat feebler lines. Distal line uniformly curved. On the hindwing 
the distal line is nearer to the distal margin than elsewhere. A 53 mm. Uganda. 
d) nigrolineata-group. 
P. odites Schaus. Head and collar orange. On the forewing the veins in the distal area are brown, odites. 
on the hindwing yellowish. A 50 mm. Sierra Leone. 
P. nigrolineata Aur. (= nigrovenata B.-Balc.) (43 a). Very similar. Thorax somewhat brownish, nigrolinea- 
Veins in fore wing black, in hindwing mostly also somewhat black, especially on veins 4 to 6. Forewing beneath 
in the apical area blackish-brown, unlike the similar odites. 50 mm. Togo. — ochrescens Grunbg. i. 1. Above ochrescens. 
and beneath somewhat yellowish. Veins darker. — rubrivena limps, differs from nigrolineata in broad reddish- rubrivena. 
brown veins. Quite extreme specimens with an intense ochreous ground-colour and broad blackish-brown 
veins are chrysargyra Wichgr. (43 a). On the hindwing often yet a faded dark band. This is the most extreme chry-sargy- 
form. All three from the Tanganyika District, North Rhodesia, Transvaal. ra ' 
P. uelleburgensis Strd. (45 a). Head and prothorax orange brown, behind brownish. Costal margin uelleburgen- 
of forewing broad black. In both wings the veins are black, at the margin, especially in the forewing, expanded s^ ' s '• 
into triangles. Beneath the apical area is not black. $ 70 mm. Uelleburg. 
II. Group. Antennae more or less black. 
P. cunina Stoll (= fervidaria F nivea Btlr.) (43 a). Head and collar orange-brown, thorax greyish- cunina. 
white, abdomen orange brown. Wings milky white. At the costal margin blackish-brown spots from which 
near the base about 4 cpiite indistinct narrow bands proceed, besides one near the centre. Distal margin broad 
blackish-brown. At the margin a mostly feeble white lunular line inwards followed.by a distinct white undulate 
line, so that the apices of the two lines touch each other. Hindwing pure white, the marginal marking feebler. 
Beneath the forewing at the apex broader dark and the distal margin of both wings narrow. $ 65 mm. 
Sierra Leone, Cameroon. 
P. ochriventris Strd. (45 a). Head and collar black. Basal bands of forewing as in cunina , marginal ochriventris. 
bands of both wings very broad, between veins 2 and 4 as convex as in albida. Also beneath the costal and 
distal margins of both wings are broad blackish-brown. $ 75 mm. Cameroon. It may be the £ of cunina 
or albida. 
P. albida Plotz (43 a). Head and collar black, thorax grey. In the basal area of the forewing the albida. 
same. Marginal band distally narrowed above vein 4, its inner edge convex between veins 4—2, although the 
band neither reaches to the distal margin, and it is often narrowed down into a black notched line. At the 
distal margin black streaks on most of the veins, surrounded by white. Fringes with black spots. On the hindwing 
likewise at the margin black streaks and in front of them little spots. 65 mm. Cameroon. — abluta 11 oil. only abluta. 
differs in a stronger row of small spots before the marginal band of the forewing, whereas in typical albida it 
is feeble and interrupted. 
P. sabalina Rbl. (45 a). Forewing in the interior area whitish, the outer third being umber-brown, sabalina. 
inwardly distinctly defined by light. Veins black. On the hindwing the broad margin is curved parallel to 
the distal margin. 56 mm. East Africa. 
16. Genus: §abalia Wkr. 
Palpi thin, long-haired, as long as the frons. Antennae of more than half the length of the costal margin. 
In the d less long pectinate than in other genera, in the $ almost the same. Fore tibiae short. First tarsal joint 
with a long spur in front and a short one behind. Hind tibiae with two spurs. Forewing with a straight 
costal margin, apex rather pointed. Anterior cell-angle often sharply projecting, in which case vein 6 is not 
stalked with veins 7 + 8 + 9, .10 being absent. In the hindwing vein 5 below the cell-angle, veins 6 -j- 7 often 
on a short stalk, vein 8 connected with the centre of the cell by a bar. Frenulum absent in $ and §. Type: 
picarina Wkr. — According to Prof. Ivarsch closely allied with Brahmaea. though the differences are rather 
great enough to separate the family of Brahmaeidae for them. 
S. picarina Wkr. (43 b). Body blackish, collar white, abdominal segments with orange edges. Forewing picarina. 
blackish-brown with a white band at the costal margin as far as % of its length, then to 2 a of the inner 
margin and vertical to the costal margin. Veins white. Hindwing white, margin broad blackish-brown 
with white veins. 68 to 88 mm. East Africa. Zambesi. 
S. thalia Fawc. Similar to picarina. On the forewing the interior band at the inner margin distantly thalia. 
separated from the outer band. On the hindwing also the basal area is blackish-brown, leaving white only 
a narrow distal band. On both wings the cross-vein is black. ^ 60 mm. East Africa. 
