518 LTTHOSIADj;. 



hyaline spot in end of cell and patch heyond the cell between veins 

 7 and 3 expanding below vein 5. Hind wing with the cell pale. 

 ILab. Gilolo, 1 d",type. Exp. 52 millim. 



2113 a. Rhodogastria pannosa. (Plate LXVIII. fig. 22.) 



Ehodogastria pannosa, Griinb. Sitz. Ber. Ge-. Natf. Frcunde, Berl. 1908, 



p. G2. pi. iii. f. 4. 

 Rhodogastria sarconota, Hmpsn. A. M. N. H. (8) viii. p. 411 (1911). 



c? . Head and thorax very pale red-brown ; palpi crimson with 

 black points on the joints; antennae dark brown, the basal joint 

 black on inner side, crimson on outer; irons above, vertex of head, 

 tips of tegulse, patagia at base, and paired spots on pro-, meso-, and 

 metathorax black; shoulders with black spots; pectus and legs 

 whitish, crimson streaks below the wings, femora above, the tibia; 

 and base of tarsi streaked with crimson, the fore tibiae and the 

 tarsi red-brown ; abdomen crimson with the five basal segments 

 pale flesh-colour on dorsum, the ventral surface brown. Fore wing 

 pale red-brown, the cell and area just below and beyond it semi- 

 hyaline; a small black spot at base. Hind wing pale red-brown, 

 the inner area paler. 



Hal). S. Nigeria, Aro (C. M. Gray'), 1 6 type sarconota; 

 Uganda. Exp. 50 millim. 



*2113&. Rhodogastria piepersi. 



Amerila piepersii, Snell. Tijd. v. Ent. xxii. p. 102, pi. 8. f. 4 (1870) ; Roths. 

 Nov. Zool. xviii. pi. G. ff. 15, 25. 



<$ . Head brownish white with Mack points above frons and on 

 vertex; palpi crimson with a black band on each joint; antenna' 

 brown, crimson towards base and with black point on basal joint ; 

 thorax pale brown, the teguhe and patagia with black spots ; pectus 

 whitish, the legs striped crimson and brown; abdomen crimson, the 

 3rd, 4th", and 5th segments pale buff, the ventral surface whitish, 

 lateral and sublateral series of blackish spots. Fore wing semi- 

 hyaline whitish, the veins and margins pale brown; a brown 

 discoidal bar conjoined to the brown costal area ; the outer edge of 

 the whitish area waved and excurved to near tennen below vein 5 

 leaving the apical area broadly brown. Hind wing semihyaline 

 whitish, the veins and margins narrowly brown, the brown on 

 terinen expanding somewhat towards apex ; the inner area tinged 

 with hrown. 



2 . Abdomen wholly crimson above. 



Ihth. Celebes, Palos Bay, Tawaya, Buton, in Coll. Roth- 

 schild; Dutch N. Guinea. Exp., d 56, $ 5-1 millim. 



2113 c. Rhodogastria timiolis. (Plate LXVIII. fig. 23.) 



Rhodogastria timiolis. Turner, Pr. R. Soc. Queensl. xxvii. p. 20 (1915). 

 Rhodogastria timwilis, tenebrosa, Roths. Nov. Zool. xxiii. p. :>:;:', j L916). 



J. Head and thorax white tinged with pale brown; palpi with 



