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black-brown above and below, not pale wood-brown above and golden orange or 

 salmon bordered with brown below; the liiudwings differ in having the basal area 

 and a mnch wider border black and the rest of the wing dark crimson, not crimson 

 scarlet. 



Length of forewiug : 21 mm. 



Ilab. Madagascar (Last). 



2?9. 



54. Rhodogastria magnifica spec. nov. 



Tliis fine species is in stnictnre nearest to Rh. btibo. 



d. Pectus white; forelegs chocolate, forecoxae, middle pair and hind jtair of 

 legs dull orange ; palpi bnff, a patch on middle and the third segment black ; head 

 white, two sjiots on frons lilack ; thorax white, a black spot at base and one at apex 

 of tegulae, two black spots on patagia, six black spots on thorax; abdomen, basal 



half above white, apical half crimson scarlet, a lateral row of black spots. 



Forewing, basal half white, three black spots at base, costa at base dilated into 

 a very large vesicle 8 mm. long by 5 mm. wide, with a large transverse opening in 

 it coloured black, outer half of wing semihyaline bluish white, a broad median 

 transverse band clay-brown, apex of wing clay-brown reaching along costal area 



to base of vein 9 and on outer margin to beyond vein 5, nervures pale brown. 



Hindwing semihyaline white, tornns produced into a short tail. 



Length of forewing : 30 mm. 



Hob. British East Africa. 



1 (?. 



55. Rhodog^astria rothi spec. nov. 



Nearest to E/i. vidua. 



$. Pectus and legs pale crimson, outside of foretibiae and basal two-thirds of 

 tarsi chocolate ; head brown washed with pink, a black spot between antennae and 

 another on vertex ; palpi black ; antennae black-brown ; collar and base of antennae 

 crimson ; thorax chocolate-brown, tegulae and patagia narrowly edged with crimson 

 on inside, a black spot at apex of tegulae, one on patagia and six on thorax ; 



abdomen crimson. Forewing deep chocolate-brown, disc semihyaline, base pink 



with two black dots. Hindwing semiliyaline, butfy rose, veins deeper rose, apex 



broadly chocolate, outer margin and inner area pale salmon-crimsou. 



$ . Similar. 



Length of forewing : 24 — 2(3 mm. 



Hab. Warri, River Niger, May 1897 (Dr. Roth). 



4 <?cJ,3 ??. 



56. Rhodogastria roseomarginata spec. nov. 



S. Pectus and inside of legs bright carmine, outside of fore- and middle 

 legs chocolate, of hindlegs carmine; palpi carmine, spotted and tipped with black ; 

 head and thorax cinnamon wood-brown with nsual twelve spots and crimson 



collar ; abdomen dark carmine, basal segment cinnamon wood-brown. Forewing 



cinnamon orange-brown, disc semihyaline, beyond apex almost clear hyaline. 



Hindwing almost hyaline ; nervures, margin, and inner area brownish rose. 



Length of forewing : 24 mm. 



Hab. Ogrugn, Niger ; Kiougo, south of Rovima, March to May 1898 (Reimer). 



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