504 LITHOSIADi. 



*2068 a. Teracotona homeyeri. 



Teracotona homeyeri, Eotlis. Nov. Zool. xvii. p. 181 (1910), & xviii. pi. 6. 

 ff. 9. 12. 



Head and thorax buff: palpi with some crimson at base and 

 black tips : antennae black except towards base ; tegulie with slight 

 crimson dorsal streak, the patagia with black points at base and 

 shoulders and crimson upper edge, crimson fasciae below shoulders 

 and winces; legs crimson above, the femoro-tibial joint black, the 

 tarsi ringed with black ; abdomen yellow with crimson hair at bast-, 

 the 4th segment with black lateral spots followed by subdorsal 

 bands on four following segments, the ventral surface white, the 

 segments edged with yellow hair. Fore wing buff, the costal edge 

 crimson to beyond middle; a small black discoidal spot. Hind 

 wing white. 



$ . Fore wing with two black points in base of cell and slight 

 black discoidal lunule, the inner margin with crimson streak ; hind 

 win? yellow buff, the inner area suffused with crimson, a black 

 discoidal lunule. cilia white: the underside of fore wing and costal 

 area of hind wing suffused with crimson. 



Hob. "Germ. E. Africa,*' Manow, $ ; Angola, Pungo Andongo 

 | Romeyer), type t 6 in Coll. Rothschild. JExp., 6 50, $ 02 

 millim. 



2009. Teracotona subterminata, insert (syn.) : — 



Seirardia sordida, Eoths. Nov. Zool. xxiv. p. 483 (1917). 



The male type has no crimson suffusion in the upper part of cell 

 of fore wing but the other specimen from the same locality has. 

 Abyssinia, Harrar (Kristensen), type t d in Coll. Rothschild. 



2070. Carcinarctia metanielama. 



5 . Head and thorax scarlet mixed with brown ; abdomen with 

 the hair at base and anal tuft crimson ; fore wing pale scarlet 

 irrorated and striated with black, the veins deeper scarlet, a distinct 

 black dbeoidal spot and subterminal spot in discal fold; hind wing 

 pale crimson with distinct black discoidal spot, and subterminal 

 spots from vein 6 to below 5 and above and below veins 2 and 1. 



Br. F. Africa, Xdimu (Betton), 1 $ . Exp. 46 millim. 



2070 a. Carcinarctia laeliodes. (Plate LXVIII. fig. 1G.) 

 Carcinarctia laelioides, Hmpsn. Xov. Zool. xxiii. p. 239 (191G). 



3. Head and thorax scarlet mixed with some brown; antennae 

 with the shaft whitish ; palpi black; fore and mid tibiae suffused 

 with black ; the tarsi black : abdomen scarlet with blackish bands 



ut at base. Fore wing scarlet irrorated with brown; an 



'ire blackish subterminal spot at discal fold. Hind wing paler 



scarlet ; a black discoidal spot and a slight subterminal spot at 



