RHODOGASTRIA. •>_', 



black spots. For.' wing ochreous tinged with red-brown, the 

 apical area red-brown; a small black spot at base of costa and two 



in cell ; a dark streak on basal half of vein 2 with a shade from its 

 extremity to inner margin ; a hyaline patch beyond the eell between 

 veins 8 and 12, defined by black-brown above, on inner side to vein 5 

 and on outer to vein '.'>. veins 6 and 5 dark on the patch and a 

 -hade from the inner edge of the patch to costa, the outer edge 

 of the patidi sinuous and produced towards termen below vein .">. 

 Hind wing semihyaline whitish tinged with red-brown, the costa 

 and termen more thickly scaled. 



II, ih. Namaqualand {Cochrane), 2 6; Tbansyaal, Ngoye 

 Hills {Grant), 1 6; Zululaxd, Lr. Tugela 11. {Reynolds), 1 6 ; 

 Natal, Durban {Leigh), 1 6 ; Cape Colony, Grrahamstown, 2 d, 

 I $. Exp. 60-66 millim. 



Larva. Fawcett, Tr. Zool. Soc. xvii. p. 180, pi. vii. f. 27. 



Pale grass-green ; bead with black spot on crimson ground at 

 apex of each eye; body with the dorsal area irrorated with 

 minute yellow spots; 4th and 11th somites with subbasal crimson 

 spots; 7th and 9th somites with crimson and black V-shaped mark 

 pointing posteriorly; abdominal somites with lateral yellow line; 

 spiracles crimson. Food-plant, " Waterboom." 



Pupa brown covered with white efflorescence in a slight cocoon 

 on the surface of the ground. 



2120 b. Rhodogastria vitrea. (Plate LXIX. fig. 16.) 



Amerila vitrea, Plotz. Stett. Ent. Zeit. xli. p. 84 (1880). 

 Head and thorax whitish tinged with pale red-brown ; palpi 

 crimson with black spots at extremities of the joints; antennas 

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

 frons and vertex of head with black points; teguhe and patagia 

 dorsally and at outer edge, pro- and metathorax with paired black 

 points; legs crimson, the tibiae brown above; abdomen crimson, 

 ventrally white tinged with rufous and with lateral and suhlateral 

 scries of small black spots. Fore wing pale reddish brown; a black 

 point at base of costa and two in cell ; the cell from before middle, 

 the disk beyond it, and the area below it semihyaline, the disco- 

 cellulars and the outer edge of the hyaline area, which is excised at 

 discal fold, darker. Hind wing semihyaline white, the termen 

 slightly tinged with brown. 



Hah. S. Leone, Kambah {Simpson), 1 6 ; S. Nigeria, Bende 

 (Coclcburri), 12; N. Nigeria, Minna {Macfie), 1 $; Congo 

 ( Chapman), 1 2; Angola, Ambriz ( Monteiro), 1 6; Transvaal, 

 Lydenburg, 1 3 ; Natal, Durban {Goocli, Marshall), 1 d,2 ?. 

 Exp. 50-54 millim. 



*2120 c. Rhodogastria affinis. (Plate LXIX. rig. 17.) 



Rhodogastria affinis, Eoths. Nov. Zool. xvii. p. 184 (1910). 



3 . Head and thorax red-brown ; palpi tinged with crimson, the 

 extremities of the joints black ; antenna? blackish, the basal joint 



