Publ. 23. IX. 1928. 
LATOIA. By Dr. M. Hering. 
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L. intermissa Wkr. (74 g). Thorax above green, below dark brown, abdomen ochreous. Forewing intermissa. 
rust-brown, in the costal-marginal portion thickly, in the distal portion more scantily dusted with white, with 
a somewhat oblique, dark, undulate transverse line which is bordered on the inside by a broad green band. 
Hindwing ochreous, more or less dusted with rust-brown. The green markings very soon turn brownish on 
the specimens exhibited in collections. Natal, Transvaal, German East Africa. 
L„ albipuncta Holl. (74 a). Forewing brown, with a yellow inner-marginal spot. Hindwing brown, albipuncta. 
basally often yellowish. <$ smaller and with narrower wings. Congo, Spanish Guinea. 
Lo picta Wkr. (74 g). Green, abdomen from brown to ochreous. Forewing rust-coloured, at the costal picta. 
margin green, w r ith an oblique and broadly interrupted green postmedian band. Hindwing and under surface 
ochreous; another form occurs without a green band of the forewing. Expanse: about 40 mm. Sierra Leone, 
French Guinea. 
L. liana Holl. Thorax above green, abdomen above dark brown. Forewing pale brown, traversed by nana. 
a broad paler brown band which extends from the costal margin before the apex to the inner margin. Hindwing 
very pale brownish. Expanse: 25 mm. Ogove. (Probably identical with Parasa decolor Karsch [p. 464; 74 f]). 
L. viridifascia Holl. (74 g). Frons and thoracal dorsum green. Abdomen above pale green, turning viridifascia. 
pale brown towards the end. Forewing chestnut-brown, marginal area dusted with pale ash-grey; in the centre 
of the wing a green band extending from the inner margin parallel to the distal margin towards the costal 
margin, in the centre strangulated. Hindwing wax-coloured. Expanse: 27 mm. The species is somewhat 
similar to Stroter comatus Karsch , in which however the green band is more slanting and entire, the terminal 
area not being so light grey. Ogove, Cameroon, Ivory Coast. 
L. vitilena Karsch (74 g) (= vitilinea v.d.E.). Ochreous, thorax above green. Forewing rust-brown, vitilena. 
more or less dusted with violettish-black, especially in the basal area, with an irregularly notched, centrally 
strangulated green median band. Hindwing ochreous. Transvaal to Cameroon, Southern Sudan. 
L. canescens Wla\ Brown, thorax whitish, abdomen brown. Forewing brown, thickly powdered with canescens. 
white, at the costal margin more densely so, with an almost straight rust-brown band at % of the wing. Hindwing 
somewhat paler. Sierra Leone. According to Aurivillius it is probably identical with the following: 
L. albiiinea Hmps. Similar to canescens, but the white postmedian line not straight, but inwardly albilinea. 
curved. Expanse: 42 mm. Ashanti. 
L. cretata Karsch (74 h) is similar to albilinea. Forewing densely dusted with white, brown is only a cretaia. 
straight transverse line forming a large spot at the inner margin. Hindwing yellowish greyish-brown. $ with 
much broader wings. Cameroon, one specimen also from German East Africa. 
L. phlebodes Karsch (74 h). Forewing more red-brown, much less dusted light than the preceding phlebodes. 
species. Forewing somewhat broader. Ivory Coast to Spanish Guinea. 
L. cineracea Karsch (74 h). Forewing red-brown, with a white, slightly curved postmedian line, from cineracca. 
the base to the latter line a green inner-marginal streak which is extended to 1 c. Hindwing yellow, sometimes 
with brown dusting in the cells. Body beneath dark brown, above reddish yellow, tegulae green. Togo, Cameroon. 
The East-African race - furfurea ssp. n. (75 a) has almost unicoloured densely white forewings with an indis- furfurea. 
tinct oblique stripe, (J-type in the Berlin State Museum. 
L. albicosta Hmps. (74 h). Similar to the preceding ones, hindwing golden yellow, veins and costal dlbicosia. 
portion more or less dusted with brown. Easily discernible from intermissa by the red-brown thoracal dorsum. 
British and German East xVfrica. Natal. 
L. flavicosta Hmps. (74 h). Head and thorax golden yellow, abdomen golden yellow, at the end brown, flavicosta. 
Forewing deep red-brown, in the basal half slightly dusted with yellowish, marginal area paler red-brown. A 
broad golden yellow costal-marginal streak extends to the postmedian line, at the inner edge of which it forms 
a broad band to vein 6, then thin dots to vein 4. Postmedian line deep red-brown, excurved at vein 6. 
Fringe dark red-brown. Hindwing and under surface golden yellow. Expanse: 50 mm. West Africa, Southern 
Sudan, British East Africa. 
L. viridicosta Hmps. Red-brown, head and thorax light green. Abdomen yellow, with a brown dorsal viridicosla. 
line. Fore wing red-brown, with a green longitudinal stripe at the costal margin, the extreme edge of which, 
however, remains brown, as far as the postmedian line; the latter is red-brown, very slanting, straight, inside 
bordered by a green transverse band which is expanded in and below the cell and at the inner margin. Hindwing 
golden yellow, with a red-brown marginal band. Expanse: 40—50 mm. West Africa, Uganda, Mashonaland. 
(I have not seen this species.) 
L. collins Mob. (= xuthosoma Beth.-B.) (74 h). Thorax grey, abdomen straw-coloured. Forewing collini. 
brown, thickly dusted with a whitish grey, with traces of a short basal line and an oblique, twice undulate, 
dark brown postmedian line which is bordered with white on the outside. Hindwing ochreous, with broad 
brown internerval stripes. Senegal, Southern Sudan. This species has been dealt with as Dasychira on p. 179, 
as which it had been described; on examining the type which is now in the Berlin State Museum it was ascer¬ 
tained to be identical with xuthosoma. 
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