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(2) ? * Chamanthedon tropica. 



Sesia tropica Beutenm., J.N.Y. Ent. Soc. vii. p. 172 (1899). 



Gaboon. 



(3) f Chamanthedon chrysopasta n. sp. 



(J. Head and thorax blue-black, the antennae with white ring towards tip, 

 the palpi orange-yellow and black -brown, the neck with ring of orange-yellow 

 scales, the shoulders with some orange-yellow scales and the metathorax at sides 

 with some orange-yellow hair ; abdomen black -brown irrorated with orange- 

 yellow, the anal tuft orange-yellow at middle, black at sides ; pectus and legs 

 black -brown and orange-yellow, the coxae with some white scales ; ventral 

 surface of abdomen mostly orange-yellow, the anal tuft wholly so. Forewing 

 black-brown thickly irrorated with orange-yellow scales ; a wedge-shaped hyaline 

 patch in the cell, bisected by a dark streak in the discal fold ; the discoidal patch 

 mostly orange-yellow ; rather short hyaline fasciae above veins 6, 5, 4, and a 

 minute spot above 3, defined on outer side by an orange-yellow band. Hindwing 

 hyaline, the veins and margins narrowly black ; veins 5, 1 c, lb, and 1 a, and the 

 inner margin mostly orange-yellow ; the black termen defined on inner side by 

 orange-yellow. Underside of forewing orange-yellow, the costa black, the 

 discoidal patch defined at sides by black, some black scales on the veins beyond 

 the cell ; hindwing with the costa and veins mostly orange-yellow, the cilia with 

 some whitish. 



IT.'W. Rhodesia, Solwezi (H. DoUman), ^ type. Exp. 20 mill. 



(4) 1 * Chamanthedon brillians. 

 Seaia brilliana Beutemn., J.N.Y, Ent. Soc. vii. p. 172 (1899). 

 Gaboon. 



(5) Chamanthedon ochiacea. 

 t Aegeria ochracea Wlk., xxxL 10 (1864). 

 Natal. 



(6) * Chamanthedon xanthopleura. 



Chamanthedon xanihofleum Le Cerf, Oberth. £«. Lip. Comp. xii. L pi. 379 £. 3179 (1916) ; id. I.e. 

 xiT. p. 289. 

 Kadras, Trichinopoli. 



(7) * Chamanthedon hypochroma. 



Chamanthedon hypochroma Le Cerf, Oberth. Et. Lip. Comp. xii. i. pi. 379. f. 3178 (1916) ; id. Ic. 

 xiv. p. 288. 

 TTp. Burma, Momeit. 



(8) Chamanthedon flavipes. 



t Seaia flavipes Hmpan., III. Het. B.M. ix. p. 60. pi. 157 ff. 19, 20 (1893) ; id. Moths Ind. i. p. 198. 

 Madras, Bangalore ; Ceylon. 



(9) t Chamanthedon albicincta n. sp. 



(J. Head, thorax, and abdomen black glossed with steel-blue, the last with 

 narrow white segmental bands on 4th and 6th segments ; basal joint of 

 antennae at sides and frons at sides white ; palpi with the 1st and 2nd joints 



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