EPANAPHE; CATARCTIA. By M. Gaede. 
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E. candezei Houlst. $ body dark brown, head, margins on the thorax and abdomen white, anal tuft candizei. 
ochreous. Forewing only at the costal margin blackish-brown. Fringe brown from the apex to vein 2. Transverse 
band similar as in subsordida, not extending beyond the base of vein 3, ending close at the anal angle. Only 
on vein 4 a radial streak, on vein 2 only a spot at the distal margin. Hindwing with fringe as on forewing. 
$ 58 mm. Congo. 
E. mayn£i Houlst. Forewing very narrowly brown at the costal margin. The fringe also at the anal angle maynei. 
only yet with white tips, otherwise brown. Transverse band darker, more distinct, straighter, at the costal 
margin more remote from the apex than in candezei, its interior edge traversing the base of vein 3. Distal area 
from the apex to vein 4 intensely dusted with brown, in the $ darker almost to the anal angle. Hindwing at 
the ends of the veins 7—2 and at the fringe brownish, in the $ more intensely so. Beneath the same, the dusting 
in the distal area very dark. 45—57 mm. Congo. 
B. Species without black marking in the distal area. 
E. carteri Wlsgh. (68 c). Forewing yellowish-white, at the costal margin, inner margin and fringe rust- carteri. 
brown. The transverse band remains outside vein 3, being moderately broad, strongly curved. Hindwing with 
brown fringe. Beneath the transverse band almost extends to the inner margin, veins 4, 6 and 7 are somewhat 
brownish. Hindwing with a brown spot at the costal margin. The type (<3) was an abnormal specimen with 
an interrupted band. In the $ the marking is broader. 36—55 mm. Congo, Gambia. 
E. ealana Strd. (68 d) is very similar to carteri, but the transverse band is much broader, 3%—4 mm, ealana. 
somewhat straighter, fringes lighter, also on the hindwing almost white. Beneath the band is very narrow at 
the inner margin in the <$, not so in the $. On the hindwing the brown spot at the costal margin is large. 
40—55 mm. Congo. — A small specimen (35 mm) from Stanleyville has dark fringes on the hindwings. 
E. parva Aur. Similar to carteri, whiter, the band darker, its centre crossing the base of vein 3. Costal parva. 
margin, inner margin, fringes of both wings blackish-brown as in carteri. Beneath on the forewing the band 
extends to vein 3, hindwing with a blackish spot at the costal margin. $ 32 mm. Cameroon. — parva an( I ealana 
are presumably only forms of carteri. 
C. Clara Holl. (68 e) is mostly somewhat larger than parva, its band likewise crossing the base of vein 3, clara. 
though it seems to be somewhat steeper. Fringes of both wings not quite so dark as in parva. Beneath on 
the forewing in the cell chocolate-brown, apical area dusted with dark. Hindwing with the same spot. 30 to 
65 mm. West Africa. -—In specimens from Spanish Guinea, which seem to belong to this species, the cell beneath 
is not brown. 
E. clarilla Aur. (68 d). Similar to clara. The band on the forewing touches the base of vein 3. Fringes clarilla. 
of both wings white. Beneath only the beginning of the band is present, otherwise both wings are without 
markings. 9 45— 58 mm. Mashona Land. 
E. nigripicta Houlst. Likewise with white fringes. Marking black, not blackish-brown. Transverse nigripicia. 
band almost straight, narrower than in clarilla, carteri, at the base of vein 3 it slightly enters the cell, and 
terminates 3 mm before the anal angle. Costal margin and inner margin narrow black. Hindwing pure white. 
Beneath the band of the forewing is entirely absent and only shows through a little. $ 48 mm. Congo. 
E. distalis sp. n. (68 cl). The band of the forewing remains far outside the base of vein 3, touches the distalis. 
anal angle and is blackish-brown like the costal and inner margins. Beneath on the forewing the band is the 
same. Hindwing with a large costal-marginal spot. 42 mm. Cameroon. Type in the Berlin Museum. - 
clarilla and distalis may be only forms of clara. 
E. unifascia Houlst. 9- Separated from the other species by the laterally white chest. Wings and unifascia. 
fringes pure white. Transverse band of forewing hardly 1 mm broad, brownish ochreous, almost parallel to 
the distal margin, only excurved at the ends. It begins a little behind the base of vein 7, extending between 
the bases of veins 2 and 3 through the cell and terminating 5 mm before the anal angle. Beneath at the costal 
margin of the fore wing an orange spot behind the diaphanous transverse band. No other markings. Congo. 
6. Genus: Catarctia Holl. 
This genus slightly recalling Arctiidae can neither be ranged with the Notodontulae, where it might be 
placed owing to the veins, nor with the Thaumetopoeidae from which it differs in the presence of 2 pair of spurs 
and the absence of the anal tuft in the 9- However, veins 6 + 7 of the hinclwing rise on a very long stalk, 
and the genital apparatus of the is as strongly developed as in the other genera dealt with here. — Palpi 
hairy, porrect, proboscis stunted, antennae of <$ and 9 pectinate as far as the tips. Forewing rather narrow, 
distal margin angular at vein 3. Veins 3 and 4 together from the same place, 6 from the upper angle, 7 + 8 
+ 9+10 stalked. In the hindwing 6 + 7 on a long stalk, 8 nearing the cell in the centre, vein 5 in both wings 
far in front. Type: divisa Wkr. 
