STENAECTIA. — SEIBARCTIA. 1 7 L 



interrupted by grey streaks on the veins. Hind wing ochreous 

 yellow, the terminal area grey-brown, broadly at costa ami 

 narrowing to vein I where it terminates, the veins on it with 

 slight pale streaks; the underside with the costal area suffused 

 with fuscous brown. 



Sab. S. Nigeria, Ilesha (Humfrey), 1 S type. Exp. 

 •10 millhn. 



*1977 b. Stenarctia abdominalis. (Plate LX VI. fig. 22.) 



Stenarctia abdominalis, Roths. Nov. Zool. xvii. p. 175 (1910). 



d . Head and tegulse orange-yellow ; palpi black at sides ; frons 

 above and vertex of head with paired black spots; antennae black, 

 the branches fulvous, the basal joint yellow, black in front, the 

 tegulse with black spots ; thorax brown mixed with blackish ; pectus 

 and legs fulvous yellow mixed with blackish ; abdomen orange- 

 yellow suffused with crimson towards extremity, dorsal, lateral, and 

 v. Mitral series of black spots except towards base. Fore wing 

 fulvous brown, the veins rather darker; traces of a diffused brown 

 antemedial line with black spot at costa; a small elongate black 

 spot in middle of cell ; a blackish spot on costa above end of cell 

 with traces of the diffused brownish postmedial line arising from it, 

 excurved to vein 4, then incurved; a rather more distinct diffused 

 curved brown subterminal line. Hind wing ochreous yellow. 



Sab. Sierra Leoxe, Moyamba (Cator), typ t 6 in Coll. 

 Rothschild. Exp. 36 millim. 



1990 a. Seirarctia alicia. (Plate LX1V. fig. 23.) 



Seirarctia alicia, Hnrpsn. A. M. N. H. (8) viii. p. 410 (1911). 



<$ . Head yellow with some fuscous on frons ; palpi and antenna? 

 black ; thorax whitish mixed with brown, the patagia fringed with 

 yellow and crimson hair and with two small black spots near base ; 

 pectus, and femora above, crimson, the tibiae and tarsi banded 

 blackish and white ; abdomen yellowish irrorated with brown, the 

 hair at base crimson, lateral series of black spots and sublateral 

 series of bars. Fore wing white strongly and thickly striated with 

 black, the inner margin and cilia yellow; a postmedial black spot 

 in discal fold. Hind wing orange-yellow, the base and inner area 

 tinged with crimson; a black discoidal spot; continent subterminal 

 spots on costal area and at discal fold and spots at veins 2 and 1. 

 Underside of fore wing suffused with crimson except the costal and 

 terminal areas which are yellowish white thickly striated with 

 black; hind wing with the costal area to beyond middle and the 

 inner area suffused with crimson. 



Hab. Br. E. Africa, Bueni (Xeave), 1 J type. Exp. 

 10 millim. 



