RHODOGASTRTA. — GERARCTIA. 



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2123 «. Rhodogastria cuehni. (Plato LXX. fig. 8.) 



Ehodogasiria huehni, Roths. Nov. Zool. svii. p. 186 (1910). 



Head and thorax white ; palpi tinged with yellow and with Mark 

 spots at the extremities of the joints ; antenna? yellow ; tegulse at 

 sides, the patagia dorsally and at sides, and the pro-, meso-, and 

 metathorax with paired black points, the prothorax edged with 

 yellow ; legs yellow and white ; abdomen white. Fore wing white ; 

 black points at base of costa and cell ; the end of cell and area 

 below and beyond it semihyaline. Hind wing white, the end of 

 cell and area beyond it semihyaline. 



Hub. Tenimber, Larat, 1 $ ; Dammee I. (Kiihn), type f d m 

 Coll. Rothschild. Exp. 62 millim. 



2127 a. Ilemodes astriga. (Plate LXX. fig. 9.) 



Ilemodes astriga, Hmpsn. Nov. Zool. xxiii. p. 240(1916). 



$ . Head and thorax silvery white with paired small black spots 

 on pro- and metathorax ; antennae brownish except towards base ; 

 frons, palpi, pectus, legs, and abdomen yellow, the fore tibise and 

 tarsi tinged with brown. Pore wing silvery white with a minute 

 black discoidal point. Hind wing pale yellow. Underside of tore 

 wing pale brown with a white fascia from below costa towards base 

 to costa towards apex, the inner area yellow ; hind wing with small 

 black discoidal spot. 



d . Pore wing with the costal edge fulvous yellow, blackish 

 towards base ; the underside fulvous yellow with the terminal area 

 brownish grey. 



Sab. Transvaal, Lydenburg, 1 6 ; Natal, Mantzburg, 1 ? 

 type. Exp. 41 millim. 



Genus GERARCTIA. Typ0 



Gerarctia, Hmpsn. A. M. N. H. (7) xv. p. 448 (1905) poliotis. 



Proboscis fully developed ; palpi short, upturned, the 2nd joint moderately 

 fringed with scales in front ; frons with rounded prominence ; antennre ot 

 female with bristles and cilia ; ocelli present ; tibia; with the inner spurs 

 rather long ; build slender. Fore wing long and narrow ; the cell long with 

 a wedge-shaped areole in upper extremity; vein 2 from towards end <>i 

 cell • 3 and 5 from near angle ; 6 from below angle ; 7 from angle ; 8, 9 stalked 

 from the areole; 10 from the areole; 11 from cell. Hind wing with vein 2 

 from towards end of cell; 3, 4 stalked; 5 from above angle ; 6, 7 from angle ; 

 8 coincident with cell to middle. 



In key differs from Anaphela in the areole being wedge-shaped with vein 7 

 from tho cell ; the genus is possibly allied to Nycteola. 



2127 b. Gerarctia poliotis. 



Gerarctia poliotis, Hmpsn. A.M. N. H. (7) xv. p. 449 (1905). 

 5 . Head, thorax, and abdomen grey tinged with fuscous. Fore 

 wino- "rev suffused and irrorated with fuscous; the veins with 

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