472 DITH0SIAD2E. 



1990 b. Seirarctia metaxantha. (Plato LXIV. fig. 24) 

 irctia metaxantha, Hinpsn. A.M.N. H. (8) iv. p 363 (1909). 



rf . Head and thorax buff slightly tinged with rufous; palpi 

 crimson at base, black at tips; antennae black except towards 

 base above; patagia with black spot at base and crimson upper 

 edge; pectus in front and legs crimson, the femoro-tibial joints 

 black, the tibiae ringed with buff at extremities, the tarsi ringed 

 with black; abdomen buff with crimson hair at base, oblique black 

 subdorsal patches, two small spots on anal segment, and sublateral 

 series of small spots. Fore wing buff thickly striated with rufous, 

 the costa to postmedial line and the submedian interspace to the 

 medial band slightly striated ; a diffused antemedial rufous band, 

 angled outwards on median nervure ; a diffused curved medial band ; 

 a slight crimson discoidal lunule ; a postmedial rufous line, exeurved 

 at middle, then oblique. Hind wing pale orange-yellow, the inner 

 area tinged with crimson ; a black discoidal striga ; a line orange 

 terminal line; the underside with the costal area tinged witli 

 crimson. 



Huh. Transvaal, Lydenburg, 1 t T , White R. {Cooke), ltftype 

 Exp. 56 millim. 



*1990f. Seirarctia approximans. (Plate LXVI. fig. 20.) 

 rctia approximans, Roths. ]\"<>y. Zool. xxiv. p. 483 (1917), c?. 



d" • Head and thorax flesh-pink, the patagia with a small 

 blackish spot near base, the antenna' black, the palpi black with 

 pale crimson scales in front ; abdomen pale crimson a1 base, then 

 yellow with subdorsal series of blackish bars: pectus and legs 

 pale crimson, the fore tibiae and tarsi whitish streaked and birred 

 with black, the mid and hind femora and tarsi at extremities 

 black : ventral surface of abdomen pale crimson with lateral series 

 of small black spots. Fore wing flesh-pink striated with blackish 

 except on basal an I costal areas, the medial area more thickly 

 striated, the striae forming obscure oblique ante- and postmedial 

 lines arising below the costa ; a -mall blackish discoidal spot. 

 Hind wing white, the inner area and ternien tinged with pinkish 

 ochreous; a black discoidal striga. Underside of core wing and the 

 .: area of hind wing pale crimson; both wings with black 

 discoidal bar. 



//<'/<. "Germ. K. Ajfrica," Manow, type t 6 in Coll. Roth- 

 schild. Exp. I s * millim. 



L990d. Seirarctia melanocera, n. sp. 

 I Plate LXVI. figs. 2] r, 22 ? .) 



is, Roths. Nov. Zool. xxiv. p. 183(1917), nee '. 



<3 . Head and thorax brighd red-brown, the antennae black, the 



sides of lVons and palpi black, the latter with some crimson 



