GORGOPIS. By M. Gaede. 
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D. eriogastra Meyr. Posterior tibiae shorter than the tarsi. Forewing somewhat more elongate than erUxjaslra. 
in the other species, dark brown. The thin, somewhat lighter radial band is edged with white, then upcurved, 
slightly suffused with dark to the apex. Near its base a black spot. At the margin small white lunae. Hindwing 
of the same colour, with traces of a light exterior band from vein 3 to the apex. $ 44 mm. Natal. 
D. vaporalis Meyr. Posterior tibiae shorter than tarsi. Forewing dark brown, in the centre clouded vapor at in. 
white. An undulate, irregular, whitish exterior band from vein 2 to the apex and a still more indistinct band 
close at the margin, both somewhat confluent. Hindwing just as dark, somewhat diaphanous at the base. 
$ 36 mm. Transvaal. 
The following species deviate still more. 
D. stictigrapha Hmps. (80 g). Dark brown. By the convex costal margin of the hindwing it resembles sticti- 
Gor. plurimaculata. The exterior half of the wing parallel to the distal margin lighter, enclosing a series of small tjrapha 
black, white-scaled spots. At the margin fine black dots edged with white scales. Body and hindwing lighter. 
$ more indistinctly marked. 36—40 mm. Congo District, Rhodesia. 
D. holophaea Hmps. (80 g). Antennae of <$, according to the original figure, distinctly short-combed, holophaea. 
Ground-colour brown with a slight violet reflection. Fore wing with a number of irregular light lines, angular 
and interrupted, outside edged darker. Hindwing more greyish brown. $ 28 mm. Congo District. 
D. limbopunctata n. sp. (80 f). Antennae of likewise short-combed. Ground-colour violettish brown, limbo- 
thorax darker. Costal margin of forewing with blackish spots outside and inside edged with almost white. punctata 
From the centre of the median vein to vein 6 distinct white dots. Below and behind them olive brown indistinct 
spots, on the cross-bar below the cell a white streak. Before the distal margin a narrow distinct olive brown 
band, inside edged with dark, outside with white, partly triangular dots, a larger dark spot above and below 
vein 2 somewhat isolated from the band. At the margin small fine round olive brown spots edged somewhat 
light. Fringe dotted white. Hindwing of the same ground-colour, at the costal margin outside with dark spots. 
G 30 mm. Cape Colony. Type in the Berlin Museum. 
D. xenoctenis Meyr. Body dark brown, forewing somewhat lighter, spotted whitish. The lighter costal xenoctenis. 
margin at the base and near the apex with dark spots. In the cell 3 pair of spots, ochreous, dark-edged, a 
seventh spot in its apex, one behind the last pair and one above the centre of the first two pairs. The space 
between the cell and inner margin is spotted white and pale yellow. An exterior and a submarginal row of 
yellowish-brown spots edged with dark. The 3 central spots of the exterior row are white. Behind them small 
marginal spots. Hindwing grey, at the costal margin with 3 dark spots. Fringes of both wings speckled grey 
and white. G 3b mm. Cape Colony. Owing to the strong lamellae on the antennae it probably does not belong 
to Hepiahis. 
5. Genus: Gorgojkis Hbn. 
Palpi short though longer than in Dalaca. Antennae of almost half the length of the costal margin, 
strongly pectinate in the <$, in the $ shorter combed, sometimes only as in Dalaca-^. Tibial plate of anterior 
tibia longer than half the length of the latter. In both wings veins 7 + 8 on a short stalk, 9 -j- 10 on a long 
one. Type: libania Stoll. 
G. libania Stoll ( 80 g). I horax and forewing dark brown, with a silky gloss. Sometimes a curved libania. 
obsolete band from the base to before the apex is indicated by a different reflection. 
G. auratilis Janse (80 a). Body brown. Forewing brownish-yellow, base and costal margin darker, auratilis. 
Hindwing brown. In both wings the veins are feebly darker. $ of a purer yellow, more scantily scaled. 
30—46 mm. Transvaal. 
G. caffra Wkr. (80 h). Smaller than libania. Thorax dark brown. Wings and abdomen reddish brown, caffra. 
— cervina Wllgr. is greyish-yellow, at the costal margin darker. According to Janse, cervina is synonymous cervina. 
to caffra , according to Aurivillius caffra has longer palpi, cervina shorter ones. I cannot find any sure difference 
in the palpi. The ground-colour varies between light greyish-yellow and dark reddish brown. Antennae of $ 
only finely dentate. 32—35 mm. South and East Africa. 
G. crudeni Janse. Body and wings olive brown. Antennal shaft of $ light with fine dark transverse crudeni. 
lines. Costal margin of forewing dark brown. Wings of C more thinly scaled. Antennae distinctly pectinated. 
If caffra $ is just as dark as crudeni it has lighter hindwings. 32—42 mm. Cape Colony. Larva grey, beneath 
somewhat brownish-grey, its skin glossy, partly somewhat wrinkled, with few short hairs; head and neck- 
shield olive brown. The length of the slender larva stated to be 22 mm probably does not refer to a full-grown 
specimen. As its European allies it lives in a silk-tube which, however, is provided with a trap-door. 
