PHASICNECUS. By M. Gaede. 
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U. eborea Gaede (45 d). Ivory white, collar orange. Forewing at the cross-vein with a black spot, eboreu. 
Median line faded rusty yellow, slightly curved. Outer line at the costal margin with a rusty brown spot, between 
veins 6 and 2 incurved, at the inner margin with 3—5 black dots. Fringe below apex black. Hindwing at the 
costal margin lighter. Median and outer lines as on the forewing with white streaks above and below vein 2. 
S 55 mm. Ivory Coast. 
25. Genus: Pliasieneeus Btlr. 
Palpi short, antennae of y 3 of the length of the costal margin, in the with long, in the $ with shorter 
pectinations. Hind tibiae with 4 spurs. In the forewdng veins 6 + 7 + 8, vein 9 branching off behind 6 
and connected by a bar (= vein 11 ) with 12 . In the hindwing veins 6 + 7 from behind the centre of the cell, 
8 near the base connected with the cell by a bar. Frenulum absent in and $. Type: gregorii Btlr. 
The first species differ somewhat in the shape of the wings, the size and marking. 
P. nivalis Bothsch. (46 d). Body snow-white, only frons light brown. Forewihg snow r -white, very nivalis. 
hairy. A basal line, the inner and outer lines and behind them the ring-spots greenish-grey silvery, y 55 mm. 
Ivory Coast, Sierra Leone. 
P. sigyna Aur. (46 d). Greyish-brown. Forewing in the anterior half lighter. On the cross-vein a sigyna. 
black luna. Median line dark, notched, uniformly curved. Behind it an indistinct line in 2 large waves with 
many dents and whitish-grey spots. Hindwing like the costal margin of the forewing, with 2 dark undulating 
lines, cj 75 mm. Cameroon. 
P. preussi Aur. (47 a). Brownish-grey. On the forewing at the cross-vein a black double dot. Median preussi. 
line dentate, brown, somewhat curved. Outer line black, above veins 1 and 3 intro-angular, outside with white 
scales. Fringe below apex blackish-brown and from there obliquely inwards as far as vein 4 blackish-brown. 
S 55 mm. Cameroon. 
P. maculifera Strd. (47 a). $ light greyish-brown, $ unicoloured darker brown. On the forewing a maculifera. 
dark double line from y 2 of the inner margin to % of the costal margin, behind it a black and white notched 
line which is incurved between veins 2 and 6. From the apex an undulating line, before it lighter, behind 
it and behind the median line somewhat darker. On the hindwing a dark median line and behind it a row 
of blackish white dots. 65—85 mm. Cameroon, Spanish Guinea, Congo. In the $ from the Congo only 
the outer branch of the median line is thick. — plagiatus Aur. (= grandiplaga Holl.) is a more intensely plagiatus. 
marked form. On the forewing an interior line, excurved as far as the cross-vein, being absent in maculifera. 
The area behind the median line and the apical spot dark brown, q 54 mm. Ashanti. 
P. bipartita Rothsch. (47 a) is quite different. Thorax olive-brown, abdomen olive-grey. Forewing bipartita. 
from the apex to the inner margin divided into two areas. Anterior portion olive brown with a dark spot at 
the cross-vein. Partition-line dingy pink. Anal half yellowish-grey with olive-brown scales and 4 transverse 
lines, the 2 median ones of which are undulated. Hindwing yellowish-grey with 2 dark grey lines. A dingy 
orange triangle the base of which extends from % of the anal margin to the base and the apex of which is at 
3 / 5 of the costal margin. 50 mm. Niger, Cameroon. Between veins 3 and 4 the distal margin of the 
hindwing is slightly excurved. The following species, though it is still very large, by its marking forms a 
transition to the great number of the smaller species. 
P. giganteus Rothsch. Head orange-brown. Thorax violettish-chocolate, abdomen paler. Forewing giganteus. 
scantily scaled, coloured like thorax, with a whitish-pink outer band. Hindwing paler. $ 78 mm. Sierra Leone. 
P. dehanicus Strd. (41 g). Red-brown. On both wings a dark median line hardly recognisable. The dehanicus. 
outer line composed of white, dark-edged spots. Before the distal margin a row of dark lunular spots. £ 40 mm. 
Cameroon. 
P. roseus Drc. (47 a). Dark orange-red, at the margins alternatingly much lighter. On the forewing roseus. 
from % of the inner margin a row of red-brown dots almost to the costal margin. Hindwing somewhat lighter. 
40—45 mm. Togo, Congo District, East Africa, Delagoa Bay. 
P. gemmatus Wichgr. Forewing yolk-coloured. In the sub median fold and at the costal margin brownish gemmatus. 
with a white discal spot which is effaced outwards. A sub marginal row of black dots is somewhat depressed 
in the centre and inside edged with white scales. Hindwing light lemon-coloured, at the end of the anal margin 
with miniate hairs. Marginal third brownish, from beneath a row of spots shows through. 40 mm. Angola. 
P. monteironis Rothsch. Head golden yellow, body orange-brown. Forewing cinnamon-brown or nut- monteiro- 
brown, costal margin, apex and fringe pinkish-brown. An oblique, somewhat undulating band from below nis ' 
the apex near vein 7 to the inner margin olive brown with silvery grey. Hindwing pinkish yellowish-brown, 
fringe orange. £ 44 mm. Delagoa Bay. 
P. similis Rothsch. (47 b). Thorax golden yellow, abdomen greyish-yellow. Both wings pale yellow, similis. 
On the forewing the distal two fifths from the inner margin to vein 7 for the greatest part occupied by a 
