PROSTERNIDIA; CROTHAEMA; SPORETOLEPIS; ZINARA. By Dr. M. Hering. 
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M. exsanguis Saalm. (73 g). Forewing ochreous, faded brownish at the base, costal margin, and more exsawjuis. 
intensely at the distal margin. A transverse row of 4 red-brown dots extends obliquely across the cell-end. 
Hindwing ochreous. Madagascar. (Unknown to me; it presumably does not belong into this genus; hind 
tibiae also only thinly haired.) 
M. strigata Mab. (73 g). Forewing brownish ochreous, with a narrow brown, somewhat excurved sirigata. 
transverse line before the margin, towards the base a blackish straight line outside bordered with white and 
somewhat divergent with it. Hindwing and under surface greyish ochreous. Madagascar. 
M. ecclesiastica sp. n. (73 g). Body and hindwing dark purple brown, forewing somewhat darker, with ecdesiasli- 
a violet tint, the darkest the basal half which is divided from the distal half by an oblique transverse line; at 
the same place with it begins at the costal margin before the apex a strongly divergent subapical line extending 
to the centre of the margin. Madagascar. 6 <$<$, 1 $ in the Berlin State Museum. 
19. Genus: JPr«sternl<lia Saalm. 
Antennae of <$ to the tips with short double pinnae. Palpi slightly longer than the frontal tuft. 
Hind tibiae densely haired, with 2 pairs of spurs. In the hindwing vein 8 anastomoses with the anterior 
edge of the cell, 6 + 7 stalked; in the forewing 10 almost from the same place as the stalked 7—-9. 
P. metallica Saalm. (73 g). Forewing purple brown, with a dark submarginal line defining the silvery metallica. 
marginal area. Basad to it a divergent silver line to the inner margin, often only representing an oblique 
streak on the inner margin, the area between both being often lighter. Hindwing straw-coloured more or 
less tinted with purple. Madagascar. 
20. Genus: Crotliaema Btlr. 
Antennae in <$ and $ with short pectinations, the dents with ciliary tufts. Palpi slightly projecting 
beyond the frontal tuft. Hind tibiae with appressed hair, with 2 pair of spurs. In the hindwing vein 8 not 
stalked, 6 and 7 separated. In the forewing 7 as well as 10 far remote from the stalked 8+9. 
C. decorata Dist. (73 g). Forewing violettish-pink, with a yellow admixture surrounded by rusty decorata. 
brownish at the base, in the centre and at the apex, a silver oblique line from the cell towards the inner margin, 
forming the border of the basal area, and a silver streak at the cross-vein. Hindwing reddish ochreous, like 
the under surface. S and $ similar. Transvaal, Natal. 
C. gloriosa sp. n. (73 g). In the scheme of markings similar to decorata, costal margin of forewing more gloriosa. 
curved, distal margin more oblique. Ground-colour dark pink, at the apex the double spot is parted, with 
brown veins. Hindwings and under surface dark pinkish-red, all the fringes ochreous. Abdomen red. L. Nyassa. 
$ type from Langenburg in the Berlin State Museum. 
C. sericea Btlr. Fore wing silken pink, a spot at the base of the costal margin, a broad irregular and sericca. 
interrupted slanting discal spot and a slanting apical spot bronze green, edged with white. Hind wing salmon- 
coloured. Thorax bronze green, abdomen pinkish red. Under surface rosy red. Costal margins, apices, and 
legs yellowish. Expanse: 38 mm. Madagascar. (Unknown to me.) 
21. Genus: Sporetolcpis Karsch. 
Antennae of $ bipectinate to the tips, decreasing in length. Palpi short. Hind tibiae with 1 pair of 
spurs. In the hindwing vein 8 anastomoses with the cell, 6 + 7 stalked. In the forewing 10 stalked with 7 
and 8+9. 
Sp. subpellucens Karscli (73 g). Wings somewhat transparent. Forewing whitish-grey, between the subpellu- 
apex and cell three arcuate lines rounded parallel to the apex, the innermost being very broad at the costal 
margin. Directly behind the cell-end from vein 6 to the inner margin an arcuate row of 6 velvety brown spots 
parted by the yellow veins. Hindwing violettish-brown with yellow veins, under surface the same. Body 
violettish-brown, sides, head and thorax in front yellow. Cameroon. 
Sp. venusta sp. n. (73 g). Forewing purple brownish, with 2 rows of ochreous spots towards the base venusta. 
bordered with brown, the interior row oblique and straight through the posterior third of the cell, the exterior 
row distally convex, rather remote from the cell. Hindwing loam-coloured, veins above and beneath not marked, 
forewing beneath darkened by grey. Cameroon. G type from Ngoko Station, April, also from Yaunde. 
22. Genus: Zinara Wkr. 
The generic type being unknown to me, the diagnose Avas based upon the two following species probably 
belonging to this genus. Antennae of q as far as the middle with long double pinnae, then bare. Palpi moderately 
long. Hind tibiae with 1 pair of spurs. In the hindwing \ r ein 8 shortly anastomoses with the anterior edge of 
the cell, 6 + 7 are stalked, in the forewing 7 is stalked with 8+9, 10 remote. 
