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it is nearing vein 12. In the hindwing vein 8 is connected with the anterior edge of the cell by a cross-vein 
or it anastomoses with it for a more or less long distance. Veins 6 and 7 rise stalked or from the same base, 
very rarely separated. The antennae of the are often bipectinate in the basal portions, then bare, more rarely 
entirely pectinate, laminiformly dentate or quite bare. The palpi are excessively long in but few genera, in the 
others of medium length, projecting beyond the frontal hair-tuft, or still shorter. The proboscis is stunted. 
The hind tibiae exhibit middle and terminal spurs or only the latter. Frenulum invariably present, in one genus 
set with spatulate scales. Externally the imagines are recognizable by a certain dull silky lustre of the under 
surface, from which the veins stand out. 
About 250 of the 900 species described occur in the Ethiopian region. As the generic question is still 
unsolved in many cases and the author together with W. Hopp is preparing a monography on the family, these 
questions have not yet been scrutinized here, which will be done in a special treatise later on. We have, on 
the whole, followed the arrangement of van Eecke in Lepidopterorum Catalogus Pars 32 (1925), adding only 
the most necessary alterations. The correct generic classification may be reserved to later examinations of 
the types. 
1. Genus: Tacria Wllngr. 
Antennae in both sexes bipectinate to the tips, hind tibiae with 2 pair of spurs. In the forewing all the 
veins rise separately from the cell, only 8 -|- 9 being forked. In the hindwing veins 6 and 7 are very distantly 
separated. Most of the species exhibit a green ground-colour of the fore wing. 
T. aetitis Wllgr. (= albipuncta Drc., argentifera Ww.) (73 a). Forewing green, near the base with a aetitis. 
group of yellowish or whitish spots edged with red-brown, a similar spot outside at the cross-vein, a curved row 
of similar spots from the tornus to the apex, quickly decreasing and disappearing anteriorly. Costal margin 
fine yellow. Hindwing in all transitions from ochreous to brownish-black. Abdomen and under surface 
ochreous, thorax above green. Transvaal, Natal, German South-West Africa. Distinguished from prasina 
by the lack of the silver gloss on the spots in the forewing. 
T. prasina Bilr. (73 a). Similar to aetitis, the spots in the forewing with a distinct silver gloss, excepting prasina. 
the inner ones of the group near the base. The spot at the cell-end extends into the cell and is mostly broken 
up into 3 spots. Hindwing ochreous. East Africa. 
T. gemmans Flclr. (73 a). Forewing green, a triangular spot at the tornus, a small spot at the cross- gemmans. 
vein and the basal area violettish-brown. The basal area outside with a yellow dot. Hindwing pale yellowish 
or greenish. Cape Colony, Natal, Delagoa Bay. 
T. punctistriga Weym. Eorewing yellowish-brown, outside more yellowish, with a white dot in the puncti- 
centre, 3 white dots between the centre and the distal margin, being arranged in a bow, and a fifth below them slriga 
above the tornus. Dots edged with a darker brown. Fringe ochreous. Hindwing ochreous, at the base with 
miniate hairs, outside dusted with brown, with a curved row of 5 oblong dark brown dots before the termen 
between the veins. Under surface ochreous, at the base and costal margin orange-red, the wings with a series 
of brown dots before the margin. Body yellowish-brown, abdomen reddish-yellow, in front and behind with 
red hair. Expanse: 33 mm. Only one <$ known from Benguela. (Not before me.) 
T. pusilla Auriv. Forewing fawn-coloured, with a trapezoidal silvery spot surrounded by brown before pusilla. 
the inner margin which projects lobately posteriorly before the middle. From the apex of this spot a straight 
dark shadow proceeds to the apex, accompanied by a row of dark dots. Hindwing pale yellow, outside somewhat 
darkened. Body yellowish, thorax above brown. Expanse: 24 mm. Cape Colony. (Not before me.) 
2. Genus: l*lileborfich» Karsch. 
As in the preceding genus, veins 6 and 7 of hindwing distantly separated, 3 and 4 nearer together. In 
the forewing 10 forked with the stalk of 8 -|- 9. Antennae of $ notched, the notchings with ciliary pencils. Hind 
tibiae with 2 pair of spurs. 
P. afflata Karsch (73a). Forewing lemon-coloured; inner margin, an almost triangular costal-marginl afflata. 
spot before the apex and on the inner margin a transverse spot not reaching to the costal margin violettish 
red-brown. Hindwing and abdomen yellowish ochreous, thorax above sometimes violettish-brown. Togo, 
Cameroon. — In extensa siibsp. n. (73 a) the dark costal-marginal spot extends yet around the apex, the exiensa. 
transverse spot near the base is only indicated as a shadow and inside not distinctly defined. Male t}q:>e from 
Cameroon, Dolodorf, in the Berlin State Museum. 
P. brunnescens sp. n. (73 a). Similar to afflata, but the ground-colour of the forewing is brownish brunnes- 
ochreous, on the inner margin there is a red-brown spot extending into the cell, though it does not cover the 
whole as in afflata but only two thirds of the inner margin. Margin somewhat more convex. Under surface and 
hindwing darker brownish ochreous, body dark ochreous, thorax above red-brown. Cameroon. Male type 
in the Berlin State Museum (leg. Schafer, Japoma). 
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