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PHRAGMATOECIA; PHRAGMATOECIOIDES. By M. Gaede. 
laclescens. Z. lactescens n. sp. (80 b). Body and forewing pale ochreous with an oblique lactean median band which 
is similarly shaped as the light inner area in kilimanjarensis. Behind it few dark brown short streaks and 
indistinct whitish spots before the margin. Hindwing ochreous, not marked. J 48 mm. Madagascar. Type 
in the Tring Museum. 
15. Genus: Phragmatoecia Newm. 
Antenna of $ bipectinate on % of its length, at the apex dentate, in the $ filiform. In the forewdng 
veins 7 + 8 on a long stalk, bent a little downward, 9 only slightly stalked. In the hindwing veins 4 and 5 
close together, 6 in the middle of 5 and 7. Hind tibiae only with terminal spurs. Type: castaneae Hbn. from 
Europe. Palpi still shorter than in Azygophleps, otherwise scarcely separable from this genus. 
airireia. P. atrireta Hmps. (80 c). Body and forewing brownish black, densely latticed black, fringe black and 
grey. Hindwing somewhat less dark. 28—32 mm. Betchuana Land, East Africa. — This and the following 
species as far as irrorata are presumably only forms of one species. 
innominaia. P. innominata Balia Torre (= reticulata Hmps.). Thorax and forewing blackish brown, finely latticed 
dark. Hindwing greyish-brown with a reddish shine. One of the specimens before me shows black streaks 
between the veins of the forewing. This and the contours of the wings would fit Arctiocossus antargyreus Fldr., 
biit not the colour. 20—30 mm. Natal, Transvaal. 
sericeata. P. sericeata Hmps. (80 d). Thorax and forewing dark reddish-brown, marginal area silky grey with 
traces of dark reticular lines. On the distal portion of the costal margin and at the inner margin short black 
streaks. Abdomen and hindwing pale brownish-grey, at the inner angle dark spots. 30 mm. South Nigeria. 
From East Africa there are 2 specimens before me, in which the foi’ewing is unicoloured dark red-brown, the 
hindwing greyish-brown. 25 mm. G?- They form a transition to the following species: 
fuscifusa. P, fuscifusa Hmps. Body and forewing pale greyish brown, suffused with dark brown, and whitish. 
Hindwing pale brown. In the $ the thorax is dark brown. 22—32 mm. Sierra Leone, South Nigeria. 
irromta. P. irrosata Hmps. is larger. Forewing without the white hue. On the hindwing behind the cell darker, 
otherwise as fuscifusa. 44 mm. Mashonaland, Natal. 
■pattens. P. pallens H.-Schdff. Thorax and forewing pale ochreous brown, abdomen lighter. Hindwing whitish. 
Forewing in the distal half latticed dark. At the costal and inner margins dark more intense streaks. 42 -60 mm. 
pelostema. Guinea, Togo, Cameroon, Nyassa District. pelostema M. Her. (80 d). At the costal and inner margins of 
the forewing more intensely striated black. In the cell and the submedian fold small spots. Hindwing with 
dark marginal dots. Togo. 
brunni. P. bruiini Pag., described according to 2 much flown specimens from Usambara, is probably the same 
species. 
gyldenstol- P. gyldenstolpei Aur. (80 d). Described by the author as a Xyleutes, but owing to the resemblance to 
P cl - pelostema it is probably better placed here. Thorax not so unicoloured ochreous brown, but also with white 
and black areas. Colour and striation not different, only the cell without streaks. More conspicuous are a short 
streak below the median vein and 4 streaks in the marginal area above vein 5 between the veins. In pelostema 
they are only indicated, and the inner margin is more intensely dark, which is not the case in gyldenstolpei. 
Hindwing whitish, at the margin darker. 34 mm. Ituri. 
argillosa. P. argillosa Le Gerf. Forewing light reddish-brown. From the cell to the middle of the inner margin 
a brown shadow. At the base of the costal margin and in the marginal area brown latticed marking, more 
distinctly so at the cell-apex and from vein 5 to the inner angle. Hindwing of the same colouring, at the inner 
margin lighter, in the middle of the distal area feebly striated. Under surface lighter, whereby the streaks are 
more distinct. Wings not so elongate as in the genotype, hindwing not indented near the anal angle. Madagascar 
— Saalmuller mentions castanea Hbn. from Madagascar, the specimen will have been argillosa. 
16. Genus: I*lirn^mafoeel«ides Strd. 
Distinguished from Ph agmatoecia by the antenna of the $ being pectinate in the basal half and 
strongly serrate-dentate at the end. Abdomen without a projecting ovipositor, with a small anal tuft. 
peetini- P. pectinicomis Strd. $ ground-colour yellowish-white as in the palaearctic Phr. territa Stgr. Forewing 
comis. with small brown strokes which are absent directly below the costal margin, and then are more intensely visible 
again on the median vein. The badly preserved type in a private collection. 37 mm. Bahr el Abiad. — Owing 
to the anal tuft it might be a mistaken + In this case the species is probably identical with the form figured 
as Phr. pelostema from the Nyassa District. 
