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crimson, the fore legs above and the mid tibia? and tarsi streaked 

 with fuscous ; abdomen yellow with lateral and sublateral series of 

 small black spots. Fore wing pale rufous; three minute black 

 spots at base ; an oblique postmedial semihvaline band from below 

 costa to vein 3. Hind wing pale red-brown, the cell and inter- 

 spaces just beyond it semihvaline. 



Hah. Br. E. Africa, S. Kakumega Forest, Yala R. (J\ r eave), 

 1 <5 type. Exp. 18 millim. 



*2116c. Rhodogastria phaedra. (Plate LXIX. fig. 12.) 

 Amerila phsedra, Weym. Stett. Ent. Zeit. liii. p. 106 (1892). 



cJ . Head and thorax ochreous brown ; palpi crimson fringed 

 with yellow hair at base, the basal joint with black spot, the 

 extremities of 2nd and 3rd joints black ; antennae black, the basal 

 joint crimson with black spot; frons above and vertex of head with 

 black spots ; neck with crimson ring; tegulae and patagia dorsally 

 and at sides, the pro-, meso-, and metathorax with paired black 

 spots ; pectus ochreous with some crimson below the wings ; 

 femora streaked ochreous and crimson, the tibia? and tarsi crimson 

 and fuscous; abdomen crimson, the ventral surface reddish ochre- 

 ous, lateral and sublateral series of black spots. Fore wing dull 

 reddish brown, the base paler with two small black spots at base of 

 cell, the area just beyond and below end of cell slightly semihvaline. 

 Hind wing uniform ochreous. 



Hah. " Germ. E. Africa," Saadani, Dar-es-Salaam in Coll. 

 Rothschild. Exp. 56 millim. 



2 US. Rhodogastria vitripennis, insert : — 



Chelonia madagascariensis, Boisd. Delegorgne Yoy. Afr. Austr. ii. p. 598 

 (1847), 



which has precedence, and del. JPelocJii/fa vidua, Saalm. 



2118 a. Rhodogastria nigropunctata. (Plate LXIX. fig. 13.) 



Rhodogastria nigropunctata, Beth. -Baker. Nov. Zool. xv. p. 191 (1908). 



Head and thorax creamy white: palpi black with scarlet bands 

 at base of 2nd and 3rd joints; antenna' black; frons above and 

 vertex of head with single black spots; tegulae at middle and sides. 

 patagia, pro-, meso-, and metathorax with paired black spots ; pectus 

 and femora above scarlet; legs black; abdomen scarlet above and 

 below, with sublateral and lateral series of small black spots. Fore 

 wing with the basal area brownish white, the costa and a basal spol 

 11 black, the outer edge of basal area inwardly oblique, the rest 

 of wil - is brown, blacker towards middle; a slight pale mark 



in upper extremity of cell ; four elongate semihvaline spots beyond 

 the cell between veins 7 and 3 with a curved pale mark below them 



