VII.W, 1 NOIDKK. — HERA.CLIA.. 549 



orange in Eronl ; pectus orange ; tibiseand tarsi ringed with white ; 

 abdomen black, the 2nd to 4th segments dorsally creamy white, 

 the anal tuft orange with dorsal Mack spot, the ventral surface 

 mostly white towards base, then with white bars. Fore wing deep 

 chocolate-brown ; an oblique postmedial creamy white Kami between 

 veins 7 and 2, rounded below ; cilia creamy white at tips at apex. 

 Hind wing black-brown with a chocolate tinge; a broad creamy 

 white antemedial hand from below costa to inner margin where it 

 is tinged with orange, rounded above and with its outer edge 

 slightly wave 1 to vein 2 ; cilia white at tips towards apex. Under- 

 side of lore wing with blue-white streak below base of costa, small 

 antemedial spoi in cell and slight streak on terminal part of sub- 

 costal nervure to the postmedial band which is slightly edged with 

 blue; hind wing with blue-white streak on base of costa and some 

 suffusion in and below base of cell, the patch slightly edged 

 with blue. 



Sab. Dutch X. Guinea, Alt. Goliath (Meek), type t 6 in 

 Coll. Rothschild. Exp. -10 millim. 



Page 561. Genus XANTHOSPILOPTERYX, insert:— _ 



Type. 



Heraclia, Hiibn. Verz. p. 180 (1827) ! gergon 



which has priority. 



64. Heraclia perdix, insert : — 



ctngustt lla, Strand, Lep. Cat. v. p. 17 (1912) for ab. 1. 



65a. Heraclia flavisignata. (Plate LXX. fig. 18.) 

 Xanthospilopteryx flavisignata, Hmpan. A. M. N. H. (8) x. p. 609 (1912). 



d . Head and thorax; black ; 1st and 2nd joints of palpi, sides of 

 frons, vertex of head, tegulse at middle and sides and the patagia 

 with paired yellow points, the meso- and metathorax with yellow 

 points ; pectus an I femora with some yellow, the tibiae striped with 

 orange, the tarsi ringed with yellow; abdomen banded orange and 

 black above and below. Fore wing black ; three slight yellowish 

 spots below basal part of costa ami a slight spot below the cell ; a 

 small triangular yellow antemedial spot in cell and two small 

 oblique spots above vein 1 ; a broad oblique bar across end of cell 

 and an elliptical patch below the cell ; an oblique band from below 

 costa beyond middle to vein 4, towards termen its lower extremity 

 curved outwards and separated by a black streak on vein 4 from a 

 yellow spot below vein 1- ; a small spot above tornus ; some slight 

 silvery blue marks on basal area, an oblique striga in middle of cell, 

 and a line on discocellnlars ; cilia yellowish white at apex. Hind 

 wing reddish orange ; a black terminal band, rather broad at apex, 

 somewhat expanding at vein 2, and narrowing to tornus; cilia 

 yellowish white at apex. 



Rab. Be. E. Afjuca, Victoria Nyanza, Lusinga (Neave), 

 2 6 type. Exp. 66 millim. 



