TERACOTOXA. 503 



20GG. Teracotona euprepia, insert (syns.) : — 



Teracotona pardalvna, Bartel, Iris," xvi. p. 199, fig, (1903). 

 Teracotona trifasciata, Bartel, Iris, xvi. p. 201 (1903), 



20G7 a. Teracotona quadripunctata. 



Teracotona rhadophaa var. quadripunctata, Wichgraf, Ent. Zeit. Guben 



xxii. p. 106, fig. (1908). 

 Teracotona rhadophma var. obscurior, Wichgraf, Ent. Zeit. Guben xxii 



p. 106 (1908). 

 Teracotona buryi, Roths. Nov. Zool. xvii, p. 181 (1910), & xviii. pi 6 



f. 23. 



Head and thorax white slightly tinged with pale red-brown ; 

 palpi yellow, crimson above and black at tips ; antenna? black 

 except at base ; teguke with raised dorsal brown ridge and black 

 points at tips ; patagia at base and shoulders with small black spots ; 

 some crimson below shoulders and wings ; femora crimson above, 

 the femoro-tibial joints black, the tarsi black ringed with ochreous 

 and crimson ; abdomen scarlet with subdorsal series of black patches 

 except at base and extremity and black dorsal patch on anal 

 segment, the ventral surface yellow, lateral and sublateral series of 

 black spots. Fore wing creamy white thickly striated and suffused 

 with pale red-brown, the inner half of basal area and the postmedial 

 area whiter ; a slight rufous antemedial line, angled at median 

 nervure, then oblique ; a small black discoidal spot ; a pale rufous 

 postmedial line, somewhat dentate and oblique to vein 4, then 

 incurved ; a subterminal series of indistinct lunulate whitish spots 

 and a blackish point at discal fold. Hind wing scarlet ; a black 

 discoidal lunule and subterminal black spots at discal fold and 

 veins 2 and 1. 



ab. 1. obscurior. Fore wing with black subterminal lunules above 

 and below vein 6. 



Hub. Gold Coast {Jones), 1 6 , Gambaga (Bury), typef $ buryi 

 in Coll. Rothschild; Togoland; N. Nigeria, Kano (F. G. Brown), 

 1 $. Exp., 6 50, 2 60 millim. 



*2067 b. Teracotona pruinosa. (Plate LXVIII. fig. 13.) 



Teracotona pruinosa, de Joan. Bull. Soc. Ent. Ital. xliv. p. 123 (1912), 



$ . Head and thorax red-brown mixed with ochreous ; abdomen 

 scarlet, the anal tuft and ventral surface red-brown mixed with 

 ochreous. Fore wing red-brown thickly striated with white; a 

 black discoidal bar. Hind wing scarlet ; a narrow black discoidal 

 lunule ; cilia yellow. 



Hab. Eritrea, co-type f $ in Coll. de Joannis, Exp. 54 millim. 



2068. Teracotona submacula, the reference should be 

 Spiioitoma submacula, Wlk. iii. 672 (18.>f>). 



