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Psyche 6:565-568, 1891.

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December 1893.1 PSYCHE'.
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secondaries are fuscous, slightly darker at the anal angle. On the under side both wings are fuscous, the primaries clouded with darker fuscous on the costa near the base, and
crossed by an incomplete transverse limbal line of pale fuscous. The secondaries are crossed by incomplete parallel median and limbal transverse bands of dark fuscous. Expanse, 38 mm.
MAGL-ZA, Walk.
My friend, Dr. ~rederic Moore of London, hasassured me that the following species is correctly referred to Walker's genus Maguza, which was erected for the reception of a South American species. A close microscopical
study of its neuration shows great similarity to that of the preceding genus, ~inotodonta, the most marked difference being the fact that the lower branch of the inferior vein in the primaries does not diverge as in Dinotc- donta, but coalesces after its origin with the main vein a short distance beyond the base. The form of the wings is also different, being relatively shorter and broader in the case of the primaries and without lobes on the inrer margin, and in the secondaries having the costa evenly rounded or arched from the base to the apex, and the outer margin evenly rounded. The legs are also much shorter
than in the preceding genus, and hairy.
The neuration again suggests as in the case of the preceding genus a relationship to the Notodonts in that vein five in the primaries springs from the middle of the cell.
197. -A/. Africana, sp. nov. $. Palpi
pale cinereous on the lower side; upper side of palpi, front, and collar dark brown ; pata- gia dark brown, margined externally with paler brown. Upper side of thorax and
abdomen fuliginous. Anal tuft pale ochra- ceous.
Lower side of thorax, abdomen, and
legs pale gray.
The primaries on the upper
side are light wood-brown with the outer third vandyke brown this outer area being traversed by a pale cinereous line, and sepa- rated from the inner area by a narrow regu- larly curved pale ochraceous line defined inwardly and outwardly by very narrow
darker lines. Just within this defining line a little below the costa is a patch of dark brown, within which is a minute whitish
ocellus. There is a broad curved sub-basal, band of vandyke brown crossing the lighter inner area besides a few spots and longitud- inal streaks of slightly darker brown between this sub-basal band and the pale ochraceous line which defines the dark outer area in- wardly and two black dots bear the costa just beyond the base. The secondaries are uniformly fuscous with the costal area testa- ceous, shining. On the under side both
wings are pale fuscous, each crossed by a paler tranverse limbal band defined inwardly and outwardly by parallel darker shades- The secondaries have an obscure discal dot. Expanse, 32 mm.
Maguza Africana, HoIl.
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MACROSENTA, gen. nov.
The neuration of the wings is almost iden- tical with that of the preceding genus.
The
abdomen is, however, relatively much
longer, and in fact projects for half of its entire length beyond the posterior margin of the secondaries. It is long, slender, and tapering, being provided with a slight bunch of hairs. The palpi are long, produced ; the second joint viewed laterally is elliptical in outline; the third joint is elongated, conical, and bent outwardly from the axis of the
body; the first and second joints are com- pressed. The antennae are filiform. The
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hairy ; the second pair armed with a terminal spur, the third pair with two terminal spurs. As in the two preceding genera, the radial in the primaries springs from the middle of the cell. Type, Macrosenta longicand(z,
Holland.
Macrosenta longicauda, Holl. 8 2.
198. M. lo?zgicauda, sp. nov. 3. Palpi
below whitish, laterally pale fawn.
Front
white; collar, patagia, and upper side of thorax fawn. Upper side of abdomen pale
cinereous; lower side of abdomen and legs white. Primaries on the upper side with
the costal area very pale fawn, with the lower "two-thirds darker fawn. These two tracts are separated from each other by a dark sub- costal ray, which runs from the base to the apex, curving upwardly to the apex, and is marked about its middle by a deep black
longitudinal spot, swollen at its outer ex- tremity. In addition the primaries are
crossed by geminate sub-basal and submar- ginal parallel series of brownish dots. There is also a very faint sublimbal transverse band of gray, which runs parallel to the submar- ginal series of dark dots.
The secondaries
are uniformly fuscous on the upper side. On the under side both wings are pale whitish- gray, with the median area of the primaries slightly darker. Expanse, 33 mm.
MAMESTRA, Treitsch.
199. M. (?I tarara, sp. nov. 8, Front,
"collar, and patagia pale golden-green. Upper side of thorax greenish.'
Upper side of ab-
domen pale olivaceous ; under side of thorax, abdomen, and legs pale olivaceous. The
primaries on the upper side are pale golden- green; the fringes evenly checked with
darker olivaceous.
The wings are traversed
bj zigzafltransverse basal, sub-bahal, trans- verse limbal, and transverse submarginal lines of pale silvery-green. There is a sub- triangular olive spot at the base near the inner margin. The area between the basal and sub-basal line
is clouded with olivaceous
in the middle.
There is an olivaceous spot
in the middle of the cell and another at the end, both surrounded by narrow pale silvery- green lines, and connected by a longitudinal olivaceous shade. The area between the
sub-basal and sublimbal lines on the inner margin is clouded with dark olivaceous and the area between the limbal and submarginal lines about the middle of the wingis likewise clouded with the same color. The nervules near their marginal extremities are marked with dark olivaceous. The secondaries are shiningwhitish, with the nervules near the apex dark olivaceous. The fringes of the secondaries are checked with pale olivaceous. On the under side both wings are shining creamy-white.
$. The female is much larger than the
male. The secondaries are blackish with
the fringes white checked with blackish. On the under side both primaries and secondaries are fuliginous. The fringes are pale oliva- ceous checkered with black. Both wings
have an obscure discal dot and are crossed by obscure incomplete transverse limbal and transverse submarginal lines. Expanse, $, 28 mm; $,40 mm.
I have a numerous series of this species ex larva.
Mr. Druce, who has examined them,
has referred them to the genus Matnestra, with which they apparently agree, but the dissimilarity in the color of the sexes is so unusual as to suggest at least something anomalous.
WESTERMANNIA, Hubn.
200. W. ancJtorita, sp. nov. 3. Front,
collar, upper side of thorax and abdomen pale fawn. The primaries are narrowly




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marked on the inner margin and broadly
marked on the outer margin with pale rufous. This marginal band is marked by an irregu- larly curved submarginal series of minute brown dots. On the costa just within the broad marginal rufous band is a triangular spot of pure white. The remainder of the wing is plumbeous with a dark circular spot at the base annulated with a narrow white line and shaded about the middle of the wing with a broad >-shaped band pointing out- wardly, defined inwardly and outwardly
by narrow silvery-white lines, having at its vertex and at the extremity of the lower limb near the inner margin dark circular spots margined with a narrow circular white line. The secondaries are pale whitish.
Both wings on the under side are whitish with the middle area of the primaries clouded with gray. Expanse, 27 mm.
EXPLANATION OF PLATES.
The numbers which follow the names of
species refer to the serial number in the text. Fig. I. Lomodonta erythrina, sp. nov. (75) 2. Heteronygmia stigmatica, sp. nov. (68) 3-
i (.
argiloides, sp. nov. (71)
4-
c (. clathrata, sp. nov. (69)
5-
i i arctioides, sp. nov. (72)
6.
c c
basibrunnea, sp. nov. (70)
7. Laelia hypolsucis, sp. nov. (86)
8. " ocellata, sp. nov. (go)
9. Aroa nigripicta, sp. nov. (91)
10. Uasychira sublutescens, sp. nov. (95) 11. iL ruptilinea, sp. nov. (96)
12. lL congia, Druce, $ .
13. Aroa lata, sp. nov. (92)
14. Heteronygmia hypoxantha, sp. nov. (74) 15-
c i
rhodapicata, sp. nov. (73)
16. Artaxa nigra, sp. nov. (76)
17. Laelia lignicolor, sp. nov. (88)
18. Euproctis Reutlingeri, sp. nov. (67) 19. E~~proctidion Gabunica, sp. nov. (66) 20. Artaxa mesomelaena, sp. tiov. (77)
21. " pal-allela, sp. nov. (82)
22. ic discipuncta, sp. nov. (83)
23. " palla, sp. nov. (79)
24. " melaleuca, sp. nov. (80)
25. " rotunda, sp. nov. (84)
26. " apicipuncta, sp. nov. (85)
27. Balacra rubricincta, sp. nov. (35)
28. glagoessa, sp. nov. (34)
29. damalis, sp. nov. (36)
30. Casphalia nigerrima, sp. nov. (38)
31. Anace monotica, sp. nov. (27)
32. " parachoi-ia, sp. nov. (26)
33. Apisa cana, sp. nov. (25)
34. Alpenus multiscripta, sp. nov. (41)
Fig. I. Ilema gonophora, sp. nov. (115)
2. " albibasalis, sp. nov. 9. (I 16)
3. L1 miserata, sp. nov. (119)
4. " circurndata, sp. nov. (120) .
5. albicostata, sp. nov. (122)
6. flava, sp. nov. (124)
7. albospargata, sp. nov. (117)
8. " apicata, sp. nov. (118)
9. " diluta, sp. nov. (123)
10. " brunneicosta, sp. nov. (121)
11. ii pallida, sp. nov. (125)
12. Ilema fusca, sp. nov. (126)
13. Argila affinis, sp nov. (132)
14. Nioda nigristriata, sp. nov. (130)
15. Argila basalis, Wlk., $? , (133)
16. Nioda agrotoides, sp. nov. (129)
17. el-ubescens, sp. nov. (131)
18. Somera chloauchena, sp. nov. (136)
19. " chloana, sp. nov. (141)
20. " desmotis, sp. nov. (137)
21 lc chloromorpha, SP. nov. (138)
22. " chloEropis, sp. nov. (146)
23. Desmeocraera hinnula, sp. nov. (186) 24. Somera bitioides, sp. nov. (139)
25. Olene costiplaga, sp. nov. (127)
26. " hyloica, sp. nov. (128)
27. Notohyba viridis, sp. nov. (105)
28. " striata, sp. nov. (101)
29. Somera infima, $, sp. nov. (142)




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30. Somera infima, 9.
31. falsa, sp. nov. (144)
19. Terphothrix lanaria, sp. nov. (134)
20. Area omissa, sp. nov. (185)
32. Turnaca gi-isea, sp. nov. (150)
PLATE 20.
33.
Scrancia modesta, sp. nov. (187)
Fig. I. Panglima gloriosa, Butl. $2.
PLATE 18. 2. Jana marmorata, sp. nov. $. (165) 4. Gastroplakaeis Greyi, $2 . (171)
Fig. I. Dasychira apateloides, sp. nov. (98) L L
L c nubifera,* sp. nov. 5- Greyi, $.
2.
6. ' ? forficulatus, Moeschl. 2 (170)
3. Notohyba nubifuga, sp. nov. (99)
7. Jana nobilis, sp. nov. (164)
4- ' delicata, sp, nov. (100)
5. oecura ocellifei-a, sp. nov. (107) PLATE 21. Notohyba proletaria, sp. nov. (103)
Thamnocera albilinea, sp, nov. ('log)
Hypotrabala castanea, sp. nov. (158)
Metanasti-ia poi-phyria, sp. nov. (159)
Philothermaf spargata, sp. nov. (160)
Stibolepis subiridescens, sp. nov. (156) Lebedodes cossula, sp. nov. (183)
Dasychira? variegata,$ sp. nov., 9.
Dasychira! albosignata, sp. nov. (97)
Oecura crucifera, sp. nov. (106)
Cyrtogone lichenodes, sp. nov. (182)
Estigena Africana, sp. nov. (157)
Orgyopsis tenuis sp. nov. (135)
Fig.
2.
I. Methoi-asa cornu-copiae, sp. nov. (2)* ' complicata, sp. nov. (I)*
Westermannia anchorita, sp. nov. (200)
Plusia siculifera, sp. nov. (5)*
Plusiotricha livida, sp, nov. (9)*
Plusia Mapongua, sp. nov. (4)*
Methorasa eximia, sp. nov. (3)*
Gigantoceras geometroptera, sp. n. (192) ' solstitialis, sp. nov. (191)
Plusia Ogovana, sp. nov. (6)"
Metaleptina nigribasis, sp. nov. (193)
'' albibasis, sp. nov. (19%)
" obliterata, sp. nov. (195)
* Dasyc/zira nubifera sp. nov. 9. In its markings recalling Ercheia subsignata, Walker, a noctuid. The
body is pale brown, darker on the thorax. The prim-
aries are pale wood-brown, with a darker shade run- ning from the costa at the base diagonally to the middle of the inner margin, then sweeping upwardly in an irregular curve to the costa, which it reaches before the apex, the outer margin being broadly much paler than the rest of the wing. There are transverse basal, median, and limbal dark lines, and an irregular ocelli- form spot at the end of the cell. The secondaries are pale cinereous. On the under side, both wings are ashen and both have a conspicuous discal spot and some incomplete lines beyond it near the costa. Ex- panse, 47 mm.
t Philotherma, Moeschler, Abhandl. Senck. nat. ges., bd. xv, p. 80.
1 Dasychira (?) variegata, sp. nov. 8. Collar dark brown ; upper side of thorax gray; abdomen fulvous with dorsal and lateral rows of black spots. The primaries are creamy marked with brown spots and lines.
Of these the most conspicuous are a basal spot, a broad sub-basal brown band margined on both sides with paler, a large ovoid spot at the end of the cell, a tri- angular subapical spot of brown on the costa, a smaller brown spot near the outer angle, and a series of mar- ginal lunulate markings. The secondaries are white narrowly margined with pale brown.
The marginal
series of lunulate markings is continued from the prim- aries, and there is a subtriangular brown spot at the anal angle.
On the under side both wings are paler and the markings are more obscure.
$. The female is like the male, but the spots are broader and more diffuse, Expanse cf, 40 to 50 mm.; Q,SS mm-
*The numbers under Plate 21 marked with an asterisk are the numbers given to a new series of descriptions to appear in the next volume beginning with the January issue of Psyche.



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