MIRESA; SEMYRILLA. By Dr. M. Hering. 
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56. Genus: Miresa Wllcr. 
One third of male antennae long bipectinate, hind tibiae with l pair of spurs, in gilba with 2 pairs. 
Palpi short, not projecting beyond the frontal tuft. In the hindwing veins 6+7 from the same place or 
stalked, 8 with the cross-vein to the anterior edge of the cell near the base. In the forewing 7 and 10 from the 
same place or stalked with the stalk of 8 + 9. Vein 11 straight, far towards the base. The genus is distributed 
over the whole globe. 
M. gilba Karsch (75 d). Forewing ochreous, with dense purple and brown transverse lines and at gilba. 
with a curved row of brown, distally black-edged spots. Hindwing ochreous. West Africa. 
M. coccinea Hmps. ( — intensior Rothsch.). Hind tibiae likewise with 2 pair of spurs. Body light rosy coccinea. 
red. Forewing light rosy-red, with a blackish-grey antemedian transverse line, at the costal margin indistinct, 
then excurved, then obiicpie, in the cell connected with a ring-macula which extends from below the costal 
margin to the posterior edge of the cell and despatches streaks on veins 2 and 5 towards the margin. Hindwing 
light red. Expanse: 28 mm. South Nigeria. It is surely identical with Micraphe lateritia Karsch. P. 452 (73 f). 
M. haematoessa Hmps. presumably coincides with coccinea , and is said to differ in a blackish-grey haematoes- 
longitudinal streak at the costal margin and posterior edge of the cell. In the form haematoessula Strd. the ; ^ 
ground-colour is ochreous instead of red. South Africa. (Micraphe lateritia. varies so much that these two S ula. 
species might be identical with it.) 
M. gracilis Btlr. (75 d). Body of <$ chiefly orange, of $ pinkish brown. Forewing pinkish brown, basal gracilis. 
half darker, bordered by an undulate darker transverse line in the centre of the wing, another similar post¬ 
median line, both connected between veins 3 and 5 by a darker longitudinal ray. Hindwing of $ yellowish- 
white, of $ somewhat lighter than forewing. Madagascar. 
M. bilineata sp. n. (75 d). Body and forewing reddish brown, basal area of forewing indistinctly darker, bilineata. 
with 2 almost parallel, undulating, postmedian transverse lines. Hindwing somewhat lighter. East Africa. 
Male type from the Ukinga Mts. in the Berlin State Museum. 
M. pyrosoma Btlr. (75 d). Larger and more robust than the preceding species, the orange body brightly pyrosoma. 
contrasted by the red-brown tegulae. Forewing dark red-brown, distally lighter, the two transverse lines quite 
indistinct. Hindwing from yellowish ochreous to red-brown. Madagascar. 
M. melanosticta Beth.-B. Thorax and abdomen reddish-brown. Forewing reddish brownish-grey, with melanostic- 
a basal dark purple brown spot below the cell, outside bordered by a very oblique, undulate, ochreous line, 
extending from % of the costal margin to y 3 °f the inner margin. A shorter ochreous V-shaped marking from 
vein 5 to the inner margin near the tornus, in the upper space of which there are two black dots. An oblique 
ochreous subapical shadow, inside bordered by a purple line and outside by a similar nebulous spot. Distal 
margin fine ochreous grey. Hindwing reddish-brown. Expanse: 36 mm. Nandi. (Unknown to me.) 
M. semicalida Hmps. (75 e). Somewhat like Brachia argyrogramma Karsch (73 f). Forewing red-brown, semicalida. 
the sinuate median line silvery white, the space between it and the postmedian line dusted with greyish-brown. 
Hindwing yellowish, suffused with reddish. Congo, Rhodesia. (Unknown to me.) 
M. ustitermina Hmps. (75 e). Forewing dark brown. Base somewhat red, marginal band fiery red. ustitermina. 
Hindwing pale greyish-brown. Congo, Transvaal, German East Africa. The extent of the lighter brownish-red 
marking varies considerably. 
M. strigivena Hmps. Body yellowish-white. Forewing pale ochreous, with a narrow white band from strigivena. 
the costal margin beyond the centre, excurved below the costal margin, then oblique to the centre of the inner- 
margin. Veins in the marginal half fine black. Hindwing silky white. Expanse: 34 mm. South Nigeria. 
(Unknown to me; it may belong to Delorhachis.) 
M. rotundata sp. n. (75 e). Antennae of <$ long bipectinate to the tips, hind tibiae with 2 pair of spurs, rotundata. 
in the forewing 10 + 7 +8+9 stalked. Body whitish ochreous, abdomen darker. Forewing yellowish-white 
with a broad securiform band towards the centre of the margin, containing the white cross-vein spot which is 
surrounded by dark, and being outside bordered by a darker colour. Two fine brown subterminal lines. Apex 
very round. Hindwing whitish, more or less dusted with purple brown. German East Africa. + 2 types from 
Amani (in the Berlin State Museum). 
57. Genus: Seiliyrilla Auriv. (—Hyphomwides Strd.) 
Antennae of $ with double pectinations decreasing towards the apices. Palpi very long, upturned. Hind 
tibiae with 2 pair of spurs. In the hindwing 8 in the middle connected with the anterior edge of the cell by the 
cross-vein, 6+7 stalked. In the forewing the discal cell is open, 7—9 stalked, together with 10. 
S. lineata Holt. (= obliquestrigata Strd.) (75 e). Forewing dark brown, with a silvery spot at the cell-end lineata. 
and a very oblique and rounded band of thin silvery dusting which is greatly widened towards the inner margin: 
