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SOMEROPSIS; SIZALISCA; RHENEA; DESMEOCRAERULA. By M. Gaede. 
poliostrota 
viriditincta. 
graminosa. 
mediata. 
biliturata. 
latif asciatci. 
inconspi- 
cuana. 
angulata. 
S. poliostrota Hmps. Thorax dark red-brown, mixed with grey, abdomen red-brown. Forewing red- 
brown, mixed with grey, veins darker brown. Traces of an undulating dark interior and exterior line, the latter 
somewhat dentate. Before the margin a fine white lunular line. Hindwing silky white, somewhat reddish- 
brown, with a fine dark marginal line. 42 mm. Cape Colony, South-West Africa. 
14. Genus. Someropsis Strd. 
Last antennal third filiform. Veins as in Somera, but in the hindwing veins 3+4 as long-stalked as 6 + 7. 
S. viriditincta Strd. (69 h). Thorax, forewing, and abdominal end above grass-green, rest of abdomen 
brown. Forewing with a broad blackish-brown interior and exterior line and several fine dark lines. Hindwing 
blackish-brown, at the base lighter. 55—62 mm. Benito District (Spanish Guinea). 
15. Genus : &iz*vlisc«l Wkr. (Stauropussa Strd.) 
Antennae pectinate as far as % of their length. Hind tibiae with but one pair of spurs. Neuration 
of forewing: vein 6 below the upper angle, 7 + 10 + 8+9 stalked. In the hindwing 6+7 on a long stalk. 
S. graminosa Wkr. (= viriclipennis Strd.) (69 h). Thorax and forewing grass-green with a brown 
marking. An interior band rather indistinct, more distinct a double notched median line and the anterior 
portion of the submarginal band. Before the margin a row of black spots. Hindwing greyish-brown, at the 
apex green. 30—44 mm. Cameroon, Togo, Niger District, Congo. The species is apparently very much inclined 
to faded colours, beside the entirely pale green specimens there are also such of a deep dark green colour, with 
an extensive submarginal band and an interior band extending obliquely distad. 
16. Genus : Rlienea Saalm. 
Separated from the palaearctic genus Stauropus only by the shape of the wings and the scheme of 
markings. Proboscis absent, palpi short. Antennae on % of their length strongly pectinated. Hind tibiae 
with but one pair of spurs. Forewing rather broad. Veins 6 + 10 + 7 + 8 + 9 stalked. In the hindwing veins 
6 + 7 on a long stalk. 
R. mediata Mkr. (= circumcincta Saalm.) (69 i). Greyish-brown. Forewing with a fine pink basal 
streak and 3 black lines. The interior line excurved below the costal margin, the central one almost straight, 
the exterior line excurved behind the cell. Around the yellow cross-vein a white ring, below it above the inner 
margin likewise white. Before the margin a white undulating line. Hindwing yellowish white. Transvaal. — 
In biliturata Karsch the forewing is more yellowish-brown, the hindwing lighter, in the $ pure white. 28—38 mm. 
Togo, Ruanda, Natal, Transvaal. 1 $ from the Gold boast exhibits a green hue. 
R. latifasciata sp. n. (69 i). Thorax reddish-brown, abdomen brown. Forewing reddish-brown with 
black lines. Interior line rather indistinct, more remote from the base than in mediata , and parallel with the 
median line, curved in the cell, then straight inwards. As far as this the wing is dark red-brown; in the sub- 
median fold a black streak. Central area lighter. Exterior line notched, nearer to the margin, behind it in the 
submedian fold darker. Distal margin of a purer brown. Hind wing reddish-brown. 38mm. Type: 1 $ in the 
Berlin Museum. 
17. Genus: Desmeocraerula Strd. 
Separated from Desmeocraera by the very short palpi; in both wings vein 5 very far in front; beneath 
on the fore wing intensely haired at the median vein. 
D. inconspicuana Strd. (69 i). Body of a dingy greyish brown. Forewing dingy white. At the costal 
margin near the base and before the apex reddish-brown, indistinctly defined, with red-brown marginal lunae. 
Hindwing in the distal area pale reddish-brown. 35 mm ($). Spanish Guinea. 
D. angulata sp. n. (69 i). Body dingy white, abdomen above at the base brownish. Forewing of a purer 
white. The brown spots at the costal margin larger, more distinctly defined. The exterior spot continued in 
single black scales to the inner margin. Before the margin a strongly notched blackish line, no marginal lunae. 
Hindwing darker red-brown. In the cell a fine black dot which is also present though less distinct in incon¬ 
spicuana. 38 mm. East Africa. A $ from the Niger District may belong to it, lacking the antennae, its body 
and forewing being all over suffused with grey. The cellular dot is absent. 
