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C. nigerrima Roll. (75 g). Blackish-brown; patagia in front, underside, and part of abdominal margins nigerrhua. 
above reddish ochreous, tegulae in the anterior halves white. Hindwing unicoloured or with a yellow lunar 
spot at the cell-end. In the $ abdomen orange, with a dark dorsal stripe. Cameroon, Spanish-Guinea, Congo. 
C. elegans Jord. Black, some yellow hairs on frons and palpi, patagia reddish yellow, tegulae with a elcgans. 
large sulphur-coloured spot. Chest and abdomen orange. Apex of abdomen in the $ black. Forewing brownish- 
black, a small basal dot and a subapical macular band sulphur-coloured. Hindwing pale yellow, with a slight 
orange tint, in the $ orange, with a narrow black marginal band which is continued in the £ at the inner margin 
to the base, and a black cross-vein dot, in the $ united with the black costal margin. Expanse: 26- 36 mm. 
Gold Coast. (I did not see this species.) 
C. nigridorsa Auriv. (75 h). Anterior body brownish-black, patagia for the most part as well as abdomen nigridorsa. 
and underside ochreous, tegulae white, at the ends black, with two large black medial spots. Forewing blackish- 
brown, with a white basal dot and a white transparent, dark-veined subapical band. Hindwing yellow, with 
a broad blackish-brown marginal band and medial spot. In the <§ the hindwing is chiefly black; yellow are 
only the cell and a short space beyond in front of it, the abdomen is above chiefly blackish. In May. Cameroon, 
Gabun. 
C. picta Sells, d' Clem. (75 h). Body orange; thorax above, ends of tegulae and of abdomen bluish-black, pida. 
Forewing black, basal third (except the extreme base) and an elliptical subapical spot light orange. Hindwing 
yellow, with a broad black marginal band and a fine discal dot. Sierra Leone, Cameroon. 
C. citrimaculata Auriv. (75 h). Body black, patagia narrowly rusty red, abdomen with 5 orange spots dtrimacu- 
beneath. Forewing black, with a roundish lemon-coloured transverse spot behind the cross-vein. Hindwing 
lemon-coloured, with a black marginal band and central dot. Cameroon. 
C. elongata Jord. resembles citrimaculata, but chest and abdomen are unicoloured black. Forewing elongata. 
long and narrow, without the tornus being indicated. Length of forewing 20 mm, width 7 mm. British East 
Africa, October. (I have not seen this species.) 
71. Genus: Xarachella Jord. 
Similar to the preceding genus, in the forewing the anterior cell-angle is strongly produced, vein 10 
rises separately, 7 -9 stalked; 2 + 3 on a short stalk. In the hindwing between veins 7 and 8 no cross-vein. 
Hindwing with an entirely rounded apex and tornus, costal margin strongly curved. 
Z. specularis Jord. Black, somewhat purple, antennae apicallv white. A central spot on the frons, a specularis. 
transverse spot on each side of the patagia, a lateral tuft at the end of the thorax, a small costal-marginal 
spot in the forewing above and in the hindwing beneath white. In the forewing a transparent white spot above 
the tornus outward of the cell, a similar central one in the hindwing. Length of forewing 1417, of hindwing 
7 mm. Natal (I have not seen this species.) 
Ptilura argyraspis Roll, is a Notodontida , Adrallia bipunctata Wkr. is an Arctiida, and Rhynclwferella 
simplex Strd. is a microlepidopteron. 
Alphabetical List 
wit reference to the original descriptions of the forms of the African Limacodidae. 
* signifies that the form is also figured at the place quoted. 
aetitis Taed. Wllgrn. Wien. ent. Monschr. 7, p. 141 (1863). 
affinis Paras. Mab. Ann. Soc. ent. Fr. (6) 10, p. 52 (1890). 
afflata Phlebod. Krsch. Ent. Nachr. 22, p. 268 (1896). 
afflicta Niphad. Her. in Seitz, Macrolep. 14, p. 468.* 
agbaja Narosan. Beth.-B. Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. (8) 16, p. 200 
(1915). 
albescens Macropl. Hmps. Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. (8) 6, p. 137 
(1910). 
albicosta Lat. Hmps. Ann. Nat. Hist. (8) 6, p. 145 (1910). 
albifrons Lat. Guer. Icon. R. Anim. Ins., p. 512 (1844). 
albilinea Lat. Hmps. Ann. Nat. Hist. (8) 6, p. 146 (1910). 
albilineata Thos. Hmps. Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. (8) 6. p. 138 
(1910). 
albiramosa Coenob. Wkr. List. Lep. B. Mus. 32, p. 483 (1865). 
albiviata Tiros. Hmps. Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. (8) 6, p. 138 
(1910). 
albovenosaParyph. Her. in Seitz, Macrolep. 14, p. 453. * 
alianta Niphad. Karsch Ent. Nachr. 25, p. 143 (1899). 
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amator Delor. Her. in Seitz, Macrolep. 14, p. 462. * 
arnica Delor. Her. in Seitz, iMacrolep. 14, p. 462. * 
amicta Natad. Swh. Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. (7) 17, p. 548 (1906). 
amoena Coenob. Fldr. Reis. Novar. Heteroc. t. 99 f . 17 (1874).* 
anacompa Ctenol. Karscli Ent. Nachr. 22, p. 273 (1896). 
ananii Paras. Karsch Ent. Nachr. 22, p. 278 (1896). 
angustifascia Lat. Her. in Seitz, Macrolep. 14, p.466.* 
ansorgeiAlth. Beth.-B. Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. (8)7. p. 571 (1911). 
aprica Hadr. Karsch , Ent. Nachr. 25, p. 130 (1899). 
argenteobrunnea Niphad. Strd. Arch. Naturgesch. 1912 A. 12, 
p. 40 (1912). 
argentilinea Coenob. Auriv. Ent. Tidskr. 20, p. 250 (1899). 
argentolineata Brach. Wichgr. Int. Ent. Zeitschr. Guben 15, 
p. 172, (1922). 
argyrobapta Ctenol. Karsch Ent. Nachr. 25, p. 138 (1899). 
argyrogramma Brach. Karsch Ent. Nachr. 22, p. 274 (1896). 
auiibasalis Ctenol. Holt. Ent. News. Philad. 1893, p. 105 
t, VII f. 4. * 
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