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DESMEOCRAERA. By M. Gaede. 
The following species white, densely dusted with brown, distinguished 
by the formation of the antennae. 
agramma. D. agramnia Hmps. Antennae of $ finely serrate. Thorax white, brown and black, abdomen blackish. 
Fore wing white, dusted with blackish-brown. A submarginal row of small brown dots excurved below vein 
7 and on the middle. Hindwing white, slightly powdered with brown. Traces of a faded exterior line. 42 mm. 
Mashona Land. 
stenipiera. D. steniptera limps. Antennae of shortly pectinate, at the tops lamellar. Thorax greyish-brown, 
abdomen reddish-brown. On the forewing a faded straight basal line. Interior line dark, at the costal margin 
faded, excurved below the submedian fold. Exterior line rather faded, incurved between veins 4 and 2. Behind 
it short dark streaks at the veins and an oblique shadow from the apex to vein 2. Hindwing white, interior 
area somewhat brownish. 33 mm. Mashona Land, Transvaal. 
pergrisea. O. pergrisea Hmps. Antennae of the same. Basal line angular below the costal margin, not reaching 
to the inner margin. Interior line in the cell distally angled, below it inwards. Exterior line below vein 2 excurved 
almost to the anal angle. Hindwing white, at the anal margin brownish. 40 mm. Natal. 
The following two species described by Holland may neither belong hereto. 
squamipcn- D. squamipeiinis Holl. Antennae of $ very strongly pectinate. Thorax and abdomen dark brown. 
nis. Forewing the same. Behind the base a sooty brown shadow. A narrow light line from the costal margin near 
the apex to the centre of the distal margin. Everywhere dense dark brown spots, inside and outside bordered 
with rust-brown. Hindwing brown, at the apex 3 black streaks. 38 mm. West Africa. 
hinnula. D. hinnula Holl. Thorax and abdomen pale greenish-brown. Forewing dark wood-brown. Exterior 
band narrow, undulating, curved, greenish-yellow. On the centre with a greenish-yellow ray reaching to the 
distal margin. On each side of the band 2 fine dark brown parallel lines. Besides a fine, curved, dentate basal 
and subbasal line. Cross-vein blackish-brown. Hindwing unicoloured dark brown. 34 mm. West Africa. 
We add now the pale green and yellowish- green species lacking a light 
ring-macula and r e n i f o r m macula. 
airiguitata. D. atriguttata Hmps. (69 e). Thorax pale yellowish-green, abdomen blackish-brown. Forewing pale 
green, slightly mixed with brown. Interior line double, brown. Behind it at the costal margin a black spot. 
On the cross-vein and before it a light brown streak, both surrounded by a white edge. Exterior line white, 
edged with brown, particularly at the costal margin. Behind it below the costal margin and before the distal 
margin black spots. Hindwing pale brown, at the costal margin green with 2 black streaks. 48—58 mm. 
uniformis. Lagos, Niger, Cameroon, Lowa (Congo), Natal. — f. uniformis form. nov. Forewing almost unicoloured brownish- 
green. Interior and exterior lines hardly noticeable. Distinct only a row of submarginal dots. Type: 1 $ in 
the Berlin Museum. 
calliope. D. calliope Hmps. (= janthina Amt., polyhymnia i. 1. (69 e). Thorax and forewing light green, abdomen 
brown. Forewing as far as the strongly notched basal line blackish. Interior and exterior lines black, double, 
notched, the branches rather distantly separated. Sometimes the white contours of a reniform macula are 
feebly traceable. At the submarginal line from the apex to vein 4 and below vein 2 a dark spot. Hindwing 
pale brown, at the costal margin green. Lowa (Congo), Transvaal, Natal. 
rivata. D. rivata Hmps. Thorax red-brown, abdomen whitish red-brown. Forewing pale green, powdered 
with dark. At the base yellowish-green. Subbasal line black, double, oblique. Interior line faded, brown. 
Median line brown, distinct, incurved in the cell, at the inner margin outwards. Exterior line as in calliope. 
Submarginal line dark, inside edged with white, outside with brown. Hindwing pale brown. 50 mm. Niger. 
atribasalis. D. atribasalis Hmps. Thorax and abdomen red-brown, at the base blackish-brown. Forewing yellowish- 
green, dusted with blackish-brown. The blackish-brown base bordered by a double oblique black undulating 
line, in the cell strongly angled. Interior line as an oblique blackish-brown streak, at the costal margin inwards. 
On the cross-vein and above it somewhat blackish-brown. Exterior line dark, dentate from near the apex to 
vein 4, where it is distally angled, with a spot below vein 2. Submarginal line black, undulating. Hindwing 
wdiite with 2 brown streaks at the apex. 40 mm. Natal. 
thalassina. D. thalassina Hmps. Thorax pale greyish-green, abdomen greenish-white with black margins. Forewing 
pale green. At the base black dots. Interior line intensely black, inside edged with white, oblique, excurved 
in the cell. On the cross-vein black scales. Median line faded, black, excurved at vein 6, connected with the 
interior line at the inner margin. Exterior line black, outside edged with white. Black submarginal lunar spots, 
inside edged with white, the one above vein 4 more remote from the margin. Hindwing white, apex greyish- 
green with a black spot. 38 mm. Mashona Land. 
