SCALMICAUDA; PERATODONTA. By M. Gaede. 
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(68 g). Abdomen above orange with black spots. The two last segments and the underside greyish-brown. 
Hindwing at the inner margin orange, the rest paler. 46—48 mm. Gold Coast. Type: i $ in the British Museum. 
Subgenus: Graphidura Strd. 
Separated from typical Scalmicauda by shorter dents on the antennae and by the dent of scales at 
the anal angle of the forewing. Type: argenteomaculata Aur. 
G. hosemanni Strd. (68 g). Body dark brown. Forewing violettish-brown, at the costal margin wood- 
coloured brown, with 3 reddish-brown double lines and a single line at the base. Hindwing unicoloured violettish- 
brown. 32 mm. Cameroon. 
G. molesta Strd. (68 h). Body dark violettish-brown. Forewing the same, marginal area lighter brown. 
From before the apex to the centre of the inner margin a dark double line. In the median area 3 large rings 
feebly recognisable, also traces of an oblique interior line. In the marginal area 2 dark undulate lines or a row 
of dots and one of lunar spots. Hindwing pale reddish-brown. 33 mm. Usambara, Lowa (Congo). — In this 
species veins 3 and 4 of the hindwing rise as closely together as in the following argenteomaculata. 
G. argenteomaculata Aur. Similar to molesta. On the forewing another subbasal line. The 3 rings are 
filled with dark. In the marginal area only a lunular line. The exterior double line is filled with white, beginning 
at the costal margin with a white triangle. Hindwing dark brown. 46 mm. Cameroon. 
G. tessmanni Strd. (68 h). Body dark violettish-brown. Forewing light violettish-brown. Near the 
base two fine transverse lines. In the central area interlaced lines. Exterior double line as in molesta, outside 
bordered by light, inside as far as the cross-vein dark, also at the inner margin. In the marginal area a dark 
band and two rows of lunae. Hindwing at the margin reddish-brown, otherwise lighter. There occur also much 
lighter specimens. 30 mm. Spanish Guinea, Nyassa Land. It might be possible that niveiplaga is the $ 
belonging to it, the scaled dent may have been thrust off. 
G. obscurior sp. n. (68 h) is as dark as molesta. The apical line above the inner margin ending somewhat 
steeper. Distal margin between veins 3 and 5 lighter, only a dark notched line before the margin. Hindwing 
somewhat lighter than forewing. 30—34 mm. L. Kiwu. Type: A in the British Museum. 
G. fuscinota Aur. (68 h). Tegulae and patagia yellowish-brown. Thorax and abdomen red-brown. 
Forewing reddish-brown, at the costal margin and apex paler. At the base two dark lines, outside edged with 
light. Above and below the base of vein 2 and at the cell-end a black ring, often only the lower ring distinct. 
Exterior line parallel to the margin, pale, edged with dark. Behind it blackish submarginal spots. Hindwing 
blackish-brown. 28—38 mm. Cameroon, Gabun. 
G. rectilinea sp. n. (68 h). Colour and maculae as in fuscinota. Interior line strongly curved, almost 
touching the lower spot. Exterior line straight, from a white triangle at the costal margin into the dent at the 
inner margin. Abdomen and hindwing dark brown. 40 mm. Cameroon. Type: 1 $ in the Berlin Museum. - 
In a from Bascho (Cameroon) the white triangle is absent, and a small $ from Ituri (Congo) is without the 
maculae and the interior line (Brit. Mus.). 
G. oneili Janse (68 h). $ thorax and forewing light reddish-brown. Forewing at the costal margin 
broad white. Traces of a subbasal line. Interior line almost straight. The 3 maculae dark grey. Exterior line 
light, parallel to the distal margin, behind it dark spots. Hindwing light pinkish-brown. $ forewing at the 
costal margin narrowly rusty yellow, anterior half orange-brown, behind dark red-brown. Interior line more 
distinct, exterior line with a white triangle at the costal margin. A $ form shows dark red-brown fore wings 
and is somewhat similar to niveiplaga. Tuft of short, $ without tuft. 44—50 mm. Transvaal. 
G. ectoleuca Hmps. Thorax chocolate-red, abdomen brown. Forewing at the base and costal margin 
as far as the exterior line yellow, otherwise lighter or darker chocolate-red as far as the anal angle and outside 
to vein 5. Margin creamy white. Marking dark chocolate red. An oblique, undulating basal line and a double 
interior line, a ring-macula and reniform macula, and a dark ring below them. Apical line oblique as far as 
vein 2, then inwards. A double row of black marginal lunae. Hindwing dark brown. 30 mm. Niger. — It 
may be molesta Strd. 
2. Genus: Peratodoiita Aur. 
Similar to Scalmicauda, separated by the dent at the distal margin of the forewing at vein 3. In the 
S it is very strong, in the £ often much feebler. $ often with dense anal wool. Type: brunnea Aur. 
P. brunnea Aur. (68 i). Thorax red-brown, without a tuft, abdomen brown. Forewing dark red-brown. 
Subbasal and interior lines dark, rather straight, obliquely outwards. Parallel with it a whitish elliptical ring- 
macula and reniform macula. Apical line dark, at the apex indistinct. Inside and outside of it brownish-pink. 
Between vein 6 and 4 brownish-pink as far as the reniform macula and from the submedian fold to the inner 
margin. Hindwing yellowish, at the inner margin brownish. 28—34 mm. Cameroon, Fernando Po. 
hosemanni. 
molesta. 
argenteo- 
maculala. 
tessmanni. 
obscurior. 
fuscinota. 
rectilinea. 
oneili. 
ectoleuca. 
brunnea. 
