ESTIGMENE. 437 



1 869 a. Estigmene evadnfi. 

 Amsacta evadne, Fawcett, P. Z. S. 1915, p. 03, pi. i. f. 4. 



$. Head and thorax white; antennae blackish; ]nl|>i with some 

 black above; fore legs brown in front, the mid tarsi brown, the 

 hind tarsi ringed with brown; abdomen banded yellow and black- 

 brown, the base, extremity, and ventral surface white, lateral and 

 snblateral series of black spots. Fore wing white; a subbasal 

 black point in the cell ; antemedial points below the costa and cell 

 and above vein 1, the point below the cell further from base ; three 

 points at lower angle of cell ; a postmedial series of black points 

 between veins 5 and 1, exeurved to vein 3, then obliipielv bent 

 inwards ; subterminal pairs of minute black points between veins 7 

 ainl 3, the points below vein 5 nearer the terinen ; a terminal series 

 of black points between veins 6 and 2. Hind wing white ; a black 

 discoi lal sp >t and small subterminal spots at discal and submedian 

 folds and two towards tornus. Underside of fore wing with small 

 black spots on each side of upper diseoeellular and subterminal 

 points below vein 8 and above 7 ; hind wing with black discoidal 

 spot and small subterminal spots below costa, at discal fold, and 

 below vein 2 and above 1. 



Hi}). Be. E. Africa, Kedai {Feather), 1 5 type. Exp. 36 

 millim. 



1870 a. Estigmene edlingeri. (Plate LXII. fig. 21.) 



Spilosoma edlingeri, Bartel, Iris, xvi. p. 180 (1903). 



Dia ;risia albescens, Roths. Nov. Zool. xvii. p. 122 (1910). 



Head and thorax pure white ; palpi with the 3rd joint black- 

 above ; antenna' with the branches black; fore tibiae and tarsi 

 striped with black; mid and hind tibiae with the spurs banded 

 with black, the former with black spot near extremity; mid and 

 hind tarsi banded with black ; abdomen dorsally orange with 

 dorsal series of small black spots, the 1st and two terminal seg- 

 ments, and the ventral surface white. Wings pure white, the 

 hind wing with minute dark discoidal point on upperside and 

 discoidal point and two or three subterminal points on underside. 



Hab. S. Nigeria, Onitsha {Dudgeon), 1 3 , 2 5 , Ogruga type f 

 2 albescens in Coll. Rothschild; Camerooxs, Bene, Yola. 

 Exp., 6 28, $ 44 millim. 



1S70 6. Estigmene flaviceps. (Plate LXII. fig. 22.) 



Estigmene flaviceps, Hmpsn. A. M. N. H. (7) xix. p. 238 (1907). 

 Acantharctia aureacosta, Beth. -Baker, A. M. N. H. (8) vii. p. 538 (1911). 



J. Head orange-yellow; palpi and antenna' black; thorax 

 white; pectus and legs orange-yellow, the tibiae and tarsi striped 

 with black; abdomen orange-yellow, the basal segment and ventral 

 surface white, a dorsal series of black bands except at base and 

 extremity, lateral series of black spots, and snblateral series of 



