mylhimn la. 
; pcrvpicuu. 
atbarina. 
schultzei. 
sudanica. 
bauhiniae. 
vcra. 
liujardi. 
318 ARGEMA. By M. Gaede. 
2. Subgenus: Epiphora 1 Vllgr. 
The hyaline spot on the forewing is round, excepting the two first species which form a transition, that 
on the hindwing being relatively large. In the first two species the margining is also corresponding to the first 
group white, yellow, black. In the real Epiphora- sp>ecies, however, olive yellow instead of yellow. Apex of 
forewing mostly much less produced. Vein 11 of forewing rises separately. 
E. mvthimnia Westw. ( = scribonia Wllgr.) (48 b). Red-brown, intensely'dusted with white. On 
the fore wing the usual white hook-shaped band. The hyaline spot of a somewhat variable shape, but not 
1 uniform, but broader. On the hindwing the round hyaline spot is rarely inserted outside. The distinct exterior 
white band is incurved at the costal margin of the forewing, on the hindwing bent round as far as the anal 
margin, on both wings introangular above the inner margin. Abdomen red-brown with whitish-yellow segmental 
margins end an ochreous and. 100— 115 mm. South and East Africa. 
E. perspicua Btlr. (48 b). Ground-colour the same, less densely dusted with white. Recognisable 
by the abnormally large hyaline spot on the hindwing extending far to the base, that of the forewing being 
almost pear-shaped. The exterior band is broad, at the costal margin less incurved, on the hindwing as in 
mythimnia. Both the bands touch the hyaline spots and are not introangular at the inner margin. On the 
hindwing the marginal band is broad yellow within the black marginal spots. Abdomen red-brown with yellow 
segmental margins, at the end whitish. 110 mm. Cameroon. 
E. atbarina Btlr. (48 c). Ground-colour dark red-brown, only at the costal margin slightly dusted 
with white. The hyaline spot is almost circular, instead of the basal hook a large spot at the inner margin. 
The distal line at the costal margin incurved, narrow, not touching the hyaline spot, much widened towards the 
inner margin. Hindwing at the base as far as the round hyaline spot white, narrowly so at the anal margin. The 
distal band is rather equably broad. Abdomen red-brown with segmental margins, the white colour often 
predominates. 100—110 mm. Abyssinia. — schultzei Aur. is mostly smaller. At the inner margin on both 
wings the white colour is much more extensive and reaches to the distal band. 85—110 mm. Lake Tchad. 
In sudanica Le Cert , on the contrary the white basal spot is smaller, narrower, at the end hook-shapecl. 
East Sudan. 
E. bauhiniae Guer. (48 a) is very similar to schultzei. The distal band less incurved at the costal margin 
of the forewing. The space outside of it more olive brown. The inner border of the black marginal spots is 
of a conspicuous orange-yellow, these in each area parted, in schultzei not so, and their edge outside and inside 
of the same colour. The cocoons are somewhat different in these so very similar species, bauhiniae having a larger 
thin cocoon, sch ultzei a narrow solid one. Larva green with somewhat cylindrical tubercles which are red beneath 
and blue above. On the sides small red dots. ( laspers edged with red, and with blue sides. On species of 
Zizyphus. The imagines hatch very irregularly. — vera Janse shows in the forewing a band which is more 
slanting at the costal margin and which in 2 of the 3 specimens at hand is almost transsected by the olive 
yellow margin of the hyaline spot. On the hindwing the band is, similar to atbarina, somewhat more sharply 
angled to the anal angle than in bauhiniae. Abdomen red-brown with white segmental margins. 100- 1 15 mm. 
South West Africa, Transvaal. 
E. lugardi Ky. (= marwitzi Weym.) (48 c). Almost unicoloured dark red-brown. Hyaline spots 
circular. The distal bands similarly shaped as in schultzei, but without the thickening at the inner margin, 
very faded white, narrow. Distal margin also darker. On the hindwing the double spots are long and narrow, 
not strangulated. Thorax behind not white as in all the other species. Abdomen like the wings, with yellowish- 
white segmental margins. 75—95 mm. East Africa. 
2. Subfamily: Saturniinae. 
1. Genus: Argeuia Wallgr. 
Antennae of J and $ strongly pectinate. Lore wing broad, at the apex pointed. Neuration: vein 5 far 
in front, between it and vein (> the cross-vein is very oblique, 7 -f- 8 -|- 9 forked, veins 10 and 11 absent. Hindwing 
with long cochleariform tails. Veins 1—4 running into them, veins 5- 7 separated at equal distances. 
Type: mimosae- Bscl. 
A. mittrei Guer. ( - cometes Guen.. idae Flclr., madagascariensis M. cl' lb.) (51a). Ground-colour 
(y) pale green or ($) yellow. Forewing with a brown band near the base and a double distal one forming spots 
at the veins. Costal margin and apex brown with white scales, not connected with the eye-spot. Hindwing 
m litrci. 
