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CINABRA; MELANOCERA. By M. Gaede. 
sometimes a little darker. Hindwing around the eyespot brick-red, the exterior line sometimes recognisable. 
The margin in both wings somewhat violettish-grey. Under surface likewise somewhat pink, the exterior line 
citrinarius. of both wings feebly traceable. 100—125 mm. Senegal. — citrinarius /. nov. (55 b). Light orange. Apex of 
forewing as rounded as in natalensis. The white collar in the type is presumably only reduced by its having 
been damaged. The undulating median line close behind the hyaline spot, and the exterior line on the forewing 
above and beneath distinct, dark brown. Hindwing with the usual eyespot. Above only the exterior line is 
distinct, beneath both. A 105 mm. Harrar. Type in the Berlin Museum. 
paratyrrhe- L. paratyrrhena Bouv. Wings at the base bright red, distally greyer. The 3 lines on the forewing 
na • irregular, slightly undulating, not so very much notched as in the similar epithyrena. The hindwing is without 
the interior line, the second line is traceable behind the eyespot, the distal line distinct, but only undulating, 
not notched as in tyrrhena. Beneath the brown eyespots are very small. A 135 mm. Congo. 
natalensis. L. natalensis Aur. (= patruelis Dist.) (54 c). The typical specimens, A °f both the authors, exihibit 
the distal margin of the hindwing somewhat straight, the apex of the forewing very much produced. Ground¬ 
colour of forewing reddish-brown, of hindwing brick-red, distal margin in both wings very light grey. Beneath 
separated from epithyrena by the dark apical spot and the mostly stronger lines, and therefore treated as a 
distinct species. The median line touches the hyaline spot outside, the exterior line extends about midway 
between the hyaline spot and the margin. Specimens from the Transvaal have a normally rounded distal margin 
of the hindwing, with a darker ground-colour and marginal area. A A from Jola, having been denoted as nata¬ 
lensis by Dr. Arn. Schultze, is above dark yellow, at the margin somewTiat lighter, beneath only with traces 
of the exterior line, thus rather like meloni. The larva belonging to it resembles Aglia tau, being green with 
small silvery spots, above with fine black dots and very short black spines. Lateral line interrupted, narrow 
brown. 
6. Genus: 4'inabra Sonth. 
It forms a transition to Lobobunaea. Antennae of $ with somewhat longer pectinations. Fore wing not 
with a produced apex in the A, bi the $ slightly roundish. Hyaline spot of forewing just as diminutive, above 
without any ring, beneath black. Veins 5 and 6 nearer together than in Lobobunaea, also vein 10 nearer to 7 -j- 8, 
veins 9 and 11 absent. 
Type: hyperbius Westw. 
bracteata. C. bracteata Dist. Forewing golden yellow. The two lines are thick, faded, greyish-brown. The interior 
line incomplete, the exterior line somewhat incurved at the costal and inner margins. Hindwing orange-yellow', 
eyespot loam-coloured, with a black ring. Exterior line and margin greyish-brown. In the $ the forevdng is 
ochreous. 110 mm. Transvaal. It is presumably only a form of the following species. 
hyperbius. C. hyperbius Westw. (55 a). Forewing red-brown. The two greyish-brown lines are very faded, the 
exterior line at the costal margin more incurved. Hindwing orange-red, eyespot as in bracteata, exterior line 
distinct, darker than on the forewing. Inner margin light reddish-brown. Distal margin of both wings faded 
greyish-brown with a red-brown marginal line. The lines on the forewing may also be quite absent. 90—100 mm. 
Transvaal. East Africa. In Rhodesia and West Africa the species has glaring yellow hindwings. Strange to 
say, not yet denominated! 
pygmaea. C. pygmaea M. & W. (55 b). Collar white. Forewing reddish-brown, with a very round apex. 
Exterior line parallel to the distal margin. Hindwing dark orange-yellow. Base, anal margin and distal margin 
pink. Eyespot as in the other species. Without an exterior line and thereby similar to the sjDecies of Lobobunaea. 
pygela. Still more similar is — pygela Drc. in which this line is also absent on the forewing. Transvaal, East Africa. 
7. Genus : MTelanoeera Sonth. 
Veins 5 and 6 of forewing little separated, 7+10-1-8 stalked at equal distances, veins 9 and 11 absent. 
Hyaline spots on both wings only semitransparent. Antennae of $ almost pectinated as in the A, but both only' 
double not fourfold, whereby it is separated from the otherwise similar species of Nudaurelia. — Pupae without 
cocoon in the ground. 
Type: menippe Westw. 
menippe. M. menippe Westw. (55 c). Glaring red-brown. Collar distinctly white. Inner and outer lines white, 
separated afar. Eyespot rather large, with a black ring. Costal and distal margins as far as within the outer 
habenichti. line brownish-green. Hindwing the same. 110—125 mm. Natal. —habenichti Wichgrf. is a glaring red female 
fumosa. form with a golden yellow distal margin, probably only a casual aberration. - fumosa Rothsch. is smoky brown. 
transiens. Central Africa. — transiens Wichgrf. $. A transition to sufferti. Contours of wings still as in menippe. Collar 
already very much darkened. The hindwing lacks the interior band, the exterior band is excurved at the costal 
margin. Ground-colour dull red as in sufferti. 
sufferti. M. sufferti Weyrn. (55 c). Smaller than menippe. Dull red almost to the distal margin which is without 
spots and in the centre excurved on the forewing. Eyespot of hindwing smaller. The white collar is entirely 
parva. absent. 80—95 mm. East Africa. - parva Rothsch. The white transverse lines are absent on both wings above. 
Angola. 
