II Kit AC 1. 1 A. 551 



71 ^. Heraclia atriventralis. 

 Xa eryx atriventralis,TS.mpsn. P.Z.S. 1910,p. 396,pl. xxxvi.f.13. 



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

 (irons, vertex of head, and tegulse at middle and sides with paired 

 white points; patagia with yellowish spots; tibiae with yellowish 

 bands, the Eeraoro-tibial joints and tarsi with white points; abdo- 

 men black with dorsal and lateral yellow bands, the ventral surface 

 black. Fore wing black with oblique silvery blue bar in middle of 

 cell with slight streaks above and below it, a discoidal lunule and 

 shorl streak on middle of vein 2; a subbasal yellow spot below 

 eosta, elongate antemedial spot below costa and small spot above 

 vein 5, a spot in middle of cell and medial spot above vein 1 ; an 

 oblique yellow band from below middle of costa to vein 1 towards 

 tornus, dilated at vein 2 and ending in a point ; an oblique sub- 

 apical band from below costa to vein 3 near termen, its extremities 

 rounded and a small subterminal spot above vein 1 ; cilia white at 

 apex. Hind wing scarlet with a black terminal band expanding 

 somewhat towards apex and at vein 2 ; cilia whitish at apex; the 

 underside with the costa narrowly black to near base. 



Hah. KE. Rhodesia, Serenje Distr. (Neave), 1 8 type. Exp. 

 56 millim. 



*7l b. Heraclia jugans. 



Xanthospilopteryx jugans, Jord. Seitz, Gr.-Schm. xv. Afr. ii. p. 7, pi. 4 h 

 (1913). 



8. Head and thorax black with white spots at sides of irons 

 and on vertex of head, two white spots at tips of tegnke, a pair of 

 slight spots on mesothorax, and yellowish white spots on patagia ; 

 gense white ; palpi with white spots on 1st and 2nd joints ; pectus 

 with white spots at sides ; the fore coxaj and femora with some 

 white, the tibia? fulvous except at base and extremity, their 

 extremities and the tarsi ringed with white ; abdomen black with 

 orange dorsal and lateral bands, the ventral surface with some 

 orange before sides of anal tuft. Fore wing black ; three small 

 white spots below basal part of eosta ; minute orange-yellow ante- 

 medial spots below the cell and above vein 1 followed by larger 

 spots in the cell and above vein 1 ; an oblique orange-jellow medial 

 band from below eosta, to vein 1, its outer edge slightly indented at 

 median nervure ; an oblique postmedial orange-yellow band from 

 below costa beyond middle to vein 3 near termen, rounded above 

 and rather triangular below ; a small subterminal spot above tornus ; 

 some silvery blue near base below costa and above vein L, an oblique 

 bar at middle of cell and streak below the cell, a curved discoidal 

 striga and postmedial spots on veins 2 and 1 ; cilia white at apex. 

 Hind wing deep crimson, a terminal black-brown Viand, broad at 

 costa and its inner edge incurved at vein 2. Underside of tore 

 wing with two white spots below eosta and antemedial orange- 

 yellow spot in and just below the cell, the medial band extending 



