LEPIDARBELA; PARALEBEDA; AETHIOPINA. By M. Gaede. 
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L. castanea Janse (78 b) is like a small wichgrafi. Distal margin of forewing more oblique, hindwing castanea. 
rounder. Streaks of forewing indicating an exterior, submarginal, and marginal band. On the hindwing also 
traces of 3 such bands. $ 37 mm. Transvaal. 
L. tligeriae B.-Bak. (78 b). Similar to wichgrafi in colour and size. On the forewing an undulating nigeriae. 
straight median line, an exterior line obliquely to vein 2, then straight to the inner margin and a line close 
before the distal margin. 50 mm. Niger District. The specimen figured from the Shari-Tsad District presumably 
belongs to this species. 
L. naevius Fawc. (78 c). Similar to a somewhat greyer, unmarked wichgrafi. Only the thorax and the naevius. 
basal streak of the forewing dark red-brown. 36 mm. East-Africa. 
L. schaeferi Griinbg. (78 c). Dark brown with numerous lighter brown, somewhat undulating lines, schaeferi. 
A slightly bent light postmedian double line, behind it two almost straight double lines and a feebler one before 
the margin. Hindwing as light as these lines. Colour of the body between them. 36—40 mm. Cameroon. In 
this species vein 11 of forewing is present and on half its length stalked with 10, whilst in the other species it is 
present at most as a short spur at the end. 
L. fratema n. sp. (78 c) corresponds to schaeferi in the different neuration. Ground-colour light brown, fratema. 
The light shadow below vein 2 is somewhat broader. An exterior band parallel to the distal margin, and a marginal 
band indistinctly parted by light. On the centre of the inner margin a short line and 3 or 4 others nearer to the 
base, traced to the costal margin, all being darker brown. On the hindwing the colour of which corresponds 
to schaeferi only faint traces of a band before the distal margin, castanea may be similar, though hardly identical, 
since the neuration is different. <$ 38 mm. Cameroon. Type in the Berlin Museum. 
L. velutina Le Cerf. is quite different owing to the broader shape of the wings, the differently sized velutina. 
sexes, and the colouring. Body and forewing silvery grey, between the veins finely striated white, margin light 
reddish-yellow. Hindwing light grey with fine reticulation, brown, margin yellowish. $ with long hair-tuft 
at the end of abdomen. $ 20, § 30 mm. East Africa. 
3. Genus : T^epidarbela DalJa Torre. 
The generic name replaces the preoccupied name Arbela Mr. from India. The only African species does 
not exactly correspond with the description of the genus in Hampson’s Moths of India. Antennae of $ shortly 
pectinated. Palpi moderately long. In the forewing vein 6 below the upper cell-angle, 10 + 9 -j- 7 + 8 stalked. 
In the hindwing exceptionally a frenulum present. Cross-vein in front distally angled, so that vein 6 arises 
farther from the base than 7; 8 connected with cell by a bar. At the inner margin 3 veins as otherwise only in 
the Indian forms. Hindtibia with one pair of spurs. 
Lep. tegula Dist. (78 c). Body and wings lustrous light greyish-yellow. Thorax somewhat rusty brown, tegula. 
Fore wing densely covered with ochreous brown bands which are somewhat rusty brown above the inner margin. 
At the cell-end a similar spot. 36- 42 mm. Transvaal. 
4. Genus: Paralebeda limps. 
Antennae somewhat shorter pectinate than in Lebedodes. In the forewing veins 10 +9-1-7 +8 stalked. 
Veins 4 + 5 stalked or from the same place. In the hindwing veins 6 and 7 from the upper cell-angle, from 
the cell an oblique bar extends to 8. Type: carnescens Hmps. 
P. schultzei Aur. (78 c). Reddish-brown, with a violet gloss. On the fore wing a dark band from % of schnitzel. 
the inner margin to the lower cell-angle, behind the cell a stretched spot. About vertically to the inner angle a 
light double line, behind it darker. Abdomen and hindwing somewhat lighter, hindwing with dark spots. 
27 mm. Niger. 
P. carnescens Hmps. Similar to a large schultzei suffused with flesh-colour. At the inner margin of carnescens. 
forewing before the centre a V-shaped dark spot, the dark shadow before the distal margin not parted by a 
double line. 38 mm. Natal. 
5. Genus: Aetliiopina n. g. 
Antennae of short, with relatively long pectinations. Wings shaped as in Paralebeda. In the forewing 
veins 10 + 7 +8+9 stalked, 8 -+ 9 very long, 6 a little below the upper cell-angle. Vein 11 free. In the 
hindwing veins 6 + 7 stalked, from the cell an oblique bar to vein 8. Type: argentifera. 
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Aeth. argentifera n. sp. (78 c). Blackish-brown. Fore wing at the costal margin with 4 broad yellowish- argentifera. 
brown spots. At the inner margin somewhat rusty brown, with 2 light streaks representing the inner and median 
