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PROBALINTHA; MAC’ROSEMYRA. By Dr. M. Bering. 
orbaia. 
biumbrata. 
mac id at a. 
separata. 
rvfibasalis. 
plebeia. 
lessmanni. 
nubilata. 
pcrsonata. 
i net usa. 
ienebrosa. 
pinguis. 
marmorata. 
P. orbata sp. n. (73 c). Forewing straw-colonrecl, in the centre with an oblique row of blackish, outside 
white-centred dots from the inner margin to the cell, parallel to it a brownish oblique patch from the apex, not 
reaching to the inner margin, a row of indistinct marginal dots. Marking in the 2 more indistinct. Hindwing 
more grey. German East Africa. <+ $ types from Mkalama in the Berlin State Museum (February, March) 
P. biumbrata Hmps. is similar to maculata, basal half suffused with reddish, followed by a white line, 
postmedian line ochreous, between it and the subterminal line a black lunar spot below the costal margin and 
the centre. At the distal margin a feeble row of black dots. Hindwing ochreous brown, dusted with blackish. 
Expanse of wings: 18 mm. Natal. 
P. maculata sp. n. (73 c). Forewing grey, with a slight olive tint, the dark basal area bordered by a 
narrow white line, in the centre with a small indentation, marginal stripe and subterminal band dark, the latter 
with a darker spot below the costal margin. type from Amani in the Berlin State Museum. East Africa, 
in March. 
P. separata Karsch (73 c). Forewing unicoloured brownish grey, with a whitish median band parted 
by dark, without a light subterminal line. Togo, Senegal, German East Africa. 
P. rufibasalis sp. n. (73 c). Forewing only with a white median band which is not parted, basal half 
rusty red, distal half more wood-coloured. Tendaguru, April-June and December. $ type in the Berlin State 
Museum (leg. Janensch). 
In thef ollowing species the <$ antennae show but one row of pectinations. 
P. plebeia Karsch (73 f) is larger than the other species of the genus. Forewing dark brown, basal area 
darker, bordered by a dingy whitish line being convex towards the base. Hindwing dark brown. Cameroon, 
Spanish Guinea. 
P. tessmanni sp. n. (73 f) is similar to plebeia, forewing narrower, basal area chestnut-brown, less 
extensive, only reaching to the cell, as well as the rather white oblique lines defining it. Under the apex at 
the margin a light grey crescent. Fernando Poo. $ type from S. Isabel in the Berlin State Museum (leg. 
Tessmann). 
P. nubilata sp. n. (73 f.) resembles tessmanni, forewing more clouded, basal area very indistinctly 
lighter defined, the marginal crescent also darker and more indistinct, sometimes all the markings obsolete. 
Hindwing greyer. German East Africa. type from Nsibu in the Berlin State Museum, also from Hindi. 
P. personata sp. n. (73 f). Forewing reddish-grey, clouded somewhat darker. Basal area straightly 
and somewhat obliquely cut off by black. Hindwing dark grey. Cameroon. type from Lolodorf in the Berlin 
State Museum. 
17. Genus: l*rolmliiii!ia Wlkr. 
A genus and species having remained unknown to me. Palpi short, antennae short, long-combed, at 
the ends bristly. Hind tibiae with 2 pair of spurs, thickly haired. Fore wing short and narrow, apex somewhat 
roundish, margin very oblique, slightly convex. 
Pr. inclusa Wlcr. fawn, forewing with a slight silken gold lustre. Three black transverse lines, the 
first near the base w ith a long pointed projection outward, the second and third somewhat undulating, nearing 
each other towards the inner margin, between them a reddish transverse stripe, beyond the exterior line an 
incomplete reddish band. Veins towards the apex and marginal line brown. Hindwing whitish, veins and fringe 
pale brownish. Size: 25 mm. Natal. 
18. Genus: Maerosemyra Btlr. 
Antennae in both sexes plain. Palpi moderately long, distal joint hidden. Hind tibiae with 2 pair of 
spurs. In the hindwing 8 anastomoses with the anterior edge of the cell, 6 + 7 are stalked. In the forewing 
10 rises from the same place or stalked with 7, 7 being stalked with 8+9. 
M. fenebrosa Btlr. (73 f). Lustrous grey, a dark oblique stripe extends straight from the apex to the 
centre of the inner margin, where it widens, a narrow zone basally to it, and the marginal area are somewhat 
lighter than the ground-colour. Markings indistinct. Madagascar. 
M. pinguis Saalm. (73 f). Forewing dark brown, with a lustrous blue irroration, an irregularly thick 
submarginal line which is almost parallel to the margin, and basally to it a somewhat curved, slanting line which 
is divergent to the inner margin and may sometimes be reduced into a transverse spot. Hindwing and under 
surface brown. Madagascar. 
M. marmorata Saalm. (73 e). Forewing lustrous dark brown, near the base a distally oblique transverse 
stripe, an undulating transverse line beyond the centre, a short transverse stripe at the apex and tornus. 
Markings blackish, outside bordered by light. Madagascar. (Unknown to me.) 
