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which also differs from rebeli in its larger yellow marginal spots. - marginilutea J. &. T. is a rebeli with a 
distinctly defined dark broad distal margin and without yellow spots. - ochracea J. & T. shows the black 
marking as in simplex , but an ochreous brown ground-colour. The 3 latter forms described from the Congo. 
Probably simplex is only the western apollinaris. There are also transitions to the latter with a yellow ground¬ 
colour. 
P. karemii Bouv. Ground-colour yellowish-white. Both wings with a small yellow eyespot. Apex 
and distal margin pale and narrow brownish, similar to simplex. Yellow marginal dots in the $ feebly marked, 
in the $ absent. Exterior line in both wings pale, hardly notched, much nearer to the cross-vein than to the 
distal margin. 60—78 mm. Congo. 
20. Genus: Parusta Rothsch. 
Antennae of $ bipectinate. Tibiae without claws. In the fore wing veins 7+10 + 8 + 9 stalked. 
Type: xanthops Rothsch. 
P. xanthops Rothsch. (57 d). Body yellowish-brown. Wings dingy white. On the forewing a basal 
spot. Interior line broadly bent, at the inner margin returning to the base. The median line is excurved in 
the centre, where it is spot-like, encircling the eyespot, marginal line indistinct. These lines and part of the 
veins are brown. Eyespot round, with yellow, blackish-brown rings. On the hindwing the median line and 
marginal line are feeble, parallel to the distal margin. Eyespot smaller than on forewing. $ 48 mm. East Africa. 
P. thelxinoe Fame. Marking similar to a small faded Usta wallengreni. Pale brown without the white 
radial bands on the forewing, but with a somewhat lighter broad median band close within the eyespot. Hindwing 
hardly lighter than forewing, also with a feeble median band. 60 mm. East Africa. 
21. Genus: Heitioclia Hbn. 
Antennae of <$ fourfold pectinated, in the $ alternately long and short. Veins 5 and 6 of forewing near 
together, sometimes on a short stalk. 7 + 8 stalked, vein 10 free. The species look rather like the European 
Saturnia- species. 
Type: apollonia Cr. 
H. apollonia Cr. Ground-colour white, with a mostly greyish-brown marking which in some places 
is edged with greenish brown. Eyespot of forewing with a large hyaline spot, almost entirely dusted with grey, 
with black, white, red-brown, olive brown rings. The median band surrounding it is broad at the costal margin, 
strangulated at vein 2, before and behind the eyespot, as well as basad it contains spots of the ground-colour 
in a variable intensity. The basal area is likewise brown with single white spots. Submarginal line distinct 
dark brown, in front with red spots, inside edged with a greenish brown. Eyespot of hindwing only with black, 
white, brown rings. An interior dark line is marked or broad, distinct. The exterior and submarginal lines 
are distinct, notched, inside greenish-brown. Margin of both wings grey. — In flavida Btlr. all the white places 
show a greenish-yellow hue. — apollina Maass. (= lindti Griinbg.). In the median band the white ground¬ 
colour is more extensive than in apollonia, and besides there are greenish scales at the veins. Hindwing of 
apollina somewhat whiter than in flavida, in lindti all white, submarginal line intensely greenish. All the forms 
presumably occur everywhere in the district. 70—90 mm. South West Africa, Transvaal, Natal. 
H. mamois Rghfr. (58 a). Here the lightest form, corresponding to lindti, is described first. Ground¬ 
colour white, at the costal margin of the forewing greyish-brown. The olive-brown bands are narrow, 2 interior 
ones and an exterior one which is outside edged with black, another band extends from it on vein 2 to the 
innermost band. The black submarginal line shows inside yellow spots. The eyespot with a crescentiform 
hyaline spot, otherwise inside grey, margined with black, white, dark red, olive brown. Hindwing with 2 olive 
brown bands, submarginal band as on forewing. Eyespot absent or replaced by a black dot. Margin in both 
wings grey. East and Central Africa. — dyops M. <£• IT. has broader bands on the forewing. The colour of 
the antennae varies as in mamois between yellow and blackish-brown. Abdomen more or less yellow, not white. 
Natal. — bioculata Aur. (58 a) is still darker, from above vein 2 to the inner margin filled with quite dark. 
On the hindwing the interior band is more intense. Abdomen as in dyops, antennae always black. Windhook, 
South West Africa. From the neighbouring Namaqualand, however, there is a specimen before me, entirely 
matching the East African mamois. 70—90 mm. 
H. terpsichore M. & W. (58 a). Body olive brown, wings white, forewing dusted with black. The 
interior and exterior lines are mostly distinct, somewhat notched, from vein 2 almost to the costal margin between 
both lines olive brown, at the distal margin of a paler olive brown. Eyespot inside as in the other species, 
with dark yellow and black rings. Hindwing only at the margin feebly darker, eyespot smaller, otherwise the 
same. — abyssinica Aur. On the forewing from the exterior line to the base suffused with olive brown. Behind 
the latter narrow white, then again somewhat darker. On the hindwing an exterior line is distinctly dark as 
on the forewing. Inside of it somewhat brownish, behind it as on forewing. 75—90 mm. Abyssinia, East Africa, 
Delagoa Bay. The black larva shows alternately broad and narrow yellowish-red rings, with soft short tubercles. 
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marginilu¬ 
tea. 
ochracea. 
karemii. 
xanthops. 
thelxinoe. 
apollonia. 
flavida. 
apollina. 
mamois. 
dyops. 
bioculata. 
terpsichore. 
abyssinica. 
