( 741 ) 

 (jou. Rhodafra opheltes. 



Spliinr ojjhflle.'i Cramer, Pup. Ej-. iii. p. 1G4. t. 1^X5. f. h (178o) (Cape ; •' Coromandel " err. loci). 



//y/,'.N- nphelhs. Hiibner, TVi-:. IxL: Sriua. p. 137. n. 1471 (18:i2). 



D^ilephUa npheJle^, Walker, Lht Lep. Ins. B. M. viii. p. 173. n. 17 (18oG) ; Bull., Tnoi^. Zool. Son. 



Lnml. ix. p. 5G8. n. 4 (1877) ; Kirby, Trans. Ent. S<>c. Loud. p. 236 (1877) (Cape). 

 Deilepliila marine Wallengren. Oefr. Vet. Ak. Firrh. xxxii. 1. p. 93 (1875). 



c? ? . Abdomen with one large black basal side-patch. Cinnamon-tawn}' costal 

 area of forewing, above, incised at the veins ; median vein jiale. Underside more or 

 less rosy red ; hind wing with black spot behind at base. 



Hah. South Africa. 



In the Tring Museum lo c^tj, 5 ?? from: Grahamstown, Cape Colony; 

 Newcastle and Mooi R., Natal. 



'"01. Rhodafra marshalli spec. nov. 



c?. Occiput and thorax cinnamon, with a pale side-stripe ; abdomen (like 

 npperside of forewing) pale bull", a black ])asal side-patch ; underside of abdomen 

 somewhat deeper in tint; palpus and breast washed with cinnamon. 



Wings, Hppersiile. Forewing densely irrorated with brown speckles ; a 



ciiuspicuons blackish brown stigma ; a blackish brown straight line from apex, where 

 it is a little curved, to inner margin, which it reaches 3 mm. from angle ; area 



outside this line more densely speckled ; a black basal posterior patch. Hiudwing 



rosy red; a large black basal patch from cell to abdominal margin, triangular, 

 widest behind, not reaching to end of cell ; cross-veins and M with some black 

 scales ; a black postdiscal band from costal margin to end of SM- ; marginal area 

 buff, speckled with black ; anal angle creamy. 



Underside buif, shaded with pink and ochraceons, densely irrorated with brown 

 except in middle ; postdiscal line of npperside vestigial below ; marginal area more 

 brown than disc. 



Harpe more obli(^uely rounded at end than in opheltes, slightly acuminate. 

 Dentate ridge of penis-sheath oblique, less symmetrical than in opheltes. 



Length of forewing : '^5 mm. 



ll<(lj. Mashoualand. 



One specimen in the British Museum, collected by G. A. K. Marshall. 



CLVIII. CHAEROOINA gen. nov.— Typus: dohert.ji. 



$ ? . Allied to Cechenenu and Eaehlovon. Second segments of palpi separate 

 as in those genera, smoothly scaled, without apical tuft on innerside, naked surface 

 longer than broad.; no cavity at end of first segment externally ; scaling of this 

 segment very rough, appearing as if the greater number of the longer scales were 

 rubbed away ; wQvyfew scales at apex of first segment on innerside. 



Hub. East Africa. 



One species. 



In the absence of d('nse scaling fmrn the end of the first segment of the jjulpus 

 on innerside and in pattern similar to Celerio. 



