552 piiai, i:\oi niD.i:. 



to inner margin, its outer edge angled at veins 2 and 1 ; hind wing 

 with the costal edge irrorated with black to near base and with 

 orange-yellow below it. 



Blab. Br. C. Africa, Like Nyasa, Songwi Valley, type f d '" 

 Coll. Liothschild. Exp. 64 million. 



72. Heraclia zenceri, insert : — 

 - Xanthospilopteryx zerikeri, ab. ochracea, Auriv. Ent. Tidskr. 1901. p. L22 



Fore wing ochre-yellow ; hind wing chrome-yellow. 

 Congo, Stanley Falls. 



ab. faviventris, Jord. Seitz, Gr.-Schm. xv. Afr. ii. p. 2 (1913). 



$. Abdomen orange with dorsal black mark at base, lateral 



series of black spots and the ventral surface black ; fore wing with 

 the spot in cell smaller, the oblique band much narrower ami not 

 reaching the eosta. 



Cameroons, Ja R., Bitje (Bates), 1 $ co-type. 



ab. nigriventris, Jord. Seitz, Gr.-Schm. xv. Afr. ii. p. 2 (1913). 



$ . Similar but abdomen black with a few orange scales. 

 Cameroon's, Ja 1\., Bitje (Bates), type f $ in Coll. Rothschild. 



72 a. Heraclia zeodita. 



Xanthospilopterya zeodita, Niepelt, Insectenborse, xxiii. p. 127(1906); 

 Roths. Nov. Zool. xiii. pi. 10. f. 7 (1900). 



5- Head and thorax black-brown with small white spots on 

 1st and 2nd joints of palpi, sides of frons, hack of head, tegulue, 

 shoulders, and patagia ; fore tibia' with yellowish bar at middle and 

 fringe of hair on outer side and white band at extremity, the tarsi 

 with white points at extremity of the joints; abdomen In-own with 

 a fulvous tinge. Fore wing golden brown; the eosta black, ex- 

 panding on basal area and with live blue-white points on it; a 

 black patch in middle of cell with metallic silvery blue centre, 

 expanding somewhat above; a rather elongate black patch below 

 middle of cell with silvery blue centre, its lower edge produced \>> .c 

 point ; an oblique black band from eosta to lower angle of cell with 

 lunulate silvery blue discoidal bar on it, conjoined to a rather 

 diffused wedge-shaped band from it to the angle of the black 

 terminal band which is broad a1 eosta. it^ inner edge incurved, 

 narrowing to vein '.). then angled inwards on vein 2 to the discal 

 band and emitting a black fascia on inner margin to near middle 

 with a slight streak from its upper <'<\^f to near the medial patch 

 below the cell ; a golden brown subterminal spot above tornus ; cilia 

 In-own, pure white at apex. Hind wing deep orange with a black 

 terminal band, its inner edge incurved at vein 2; cilia brown with 

 white tips towards tornus. wholly while towards apex. 



Huh. Cum;.) State, Kassai, Luebo (Landbeck), 1 y. Ab-/'. 

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