ESTIGMENE- 



1S5S b. Estigmene griseata. 

 Estigm me griseata, Hmpsn. P. Z.S. 1916, p. 102, pi. i. f. 1. 



$. Head and thorax brownish grey, tin' bach <>!' head and tips 

 of fcegula orange-yellow, the patagia with small black spots near 

 bast' ; palpi black at tips ; abdomen fulvous orange with lateral 

 series of small black spots. Fore wing brownish grey ; a small 

 black spot at base of cell; black points in the angles of cell and 

 two beyond lower angle. Hind wing white tinged with reddish 

 brown. Underside brownish white, the costal area of both wings 

 tinged with red-brown; hind wing with black discoidal spot. 



/I,//). Somalilaxd, Mandera (Feather), 1 $ type. lExp. 

 40 nullim. 



*1S5S c. Estigmene stygioides. (Plate LXVI. fig. 18.) 



Estigmene stygioides, Roths. Nov. Zool. xxiii. p. 271 (191G). 



6 . Head and thorax yellow suffused with rufous ; antenna? with 

 the shaft grey, the branches black ; frons and palpi yellow ; abdo- 

 men orange-yellow banded with black ; pectus, legs, and ventral 

 surface of abdomen yellow, the legs slightly tinged with brown. 

 Fore wing yellow tinged with rufous. Hind wing reddish brown, 

 thinly scaled, the cell and area below it hyaline, the costa pale 

 yellow to beyond middle. Underside of fore wing suffused with 

 reddish brown, the costa yellow. 



Hah. S. Nigeria, K. Benne, Abinsi, type f S in Coll. Roth- 

 schild. Exp. 30 milliin. 



1859. Estigmene dissimilis. 



Larva. Fawcett, Tr. Zool. Soc. xvii. p. 179, pi. vii. ff. 20-22. 



Head ferruginous with a /\-shaped black mark between the eyes; 

 body black with an indistinct dorsal series of brownish spots, the 

 two terminal spots yellowish ; a brownish lateral line and an inter- 

 rupted pale ochreous subspiracular line ; warts with black hairs of 

 varying lengths, the subspiracular warts with ferruginous hairs ; 

 spiracles white ; legs and claspers pale ferruginous. The young 

 larva with the head, legs, and claspers black, no ochreous sub- 

 spiracular line. Food-plant, Yernonia gerrardi. 



Pupa red-brown in a cocoon among the leaves of the food-plant. 



1859 a. Estigmene melanocera. (Plate LXII. tig. 1.) 



Estigmene melanocera, Hmpsn. Nov. Zool. xxiii. p. 237 (1910). 



<5 . Head and thorax cream colour; antennae black ; palpi black 



at tips ; shoulders and patagia with black spots; pectus yellow; 

 fore coxa 1 with black patches, the fore legs black above, the mid 

 tibiae and tarsi black above, the extremity of hind femora, the basal 

 half of tibia; above and the tarsi black ; abdomen orange-yellow 

 with dorsal and lateral series of black spots except on basal segment 



