ii Ki; A ci. i L 



553 



*72 h. Heraclia niepelti. 



Xanthospilopteryx niepelti, Oberth. Ann. Soc. Ent. Fr. 1910, p. 472, 

 pi. 16. f. 2. 



$ . Head and thorax brown, the tegulae and patagia with white 

 points; abdomen yellow. Fore wing black; two small orange 

 spots below base of costa; a large triangular orange patch occupy- 

 in-' tli«' terminal two-thirds of cell and extending to just below it. 

 basally conjoined to a conical orange patch from middle of cell to 

 inner margin ; an oblique black spot in middle of cell with blue bar 

 on it; a blue discoidal bar, an oblique orange patch below end ol 

 cell : a broad oblique orange hand from below costa beyond middle 

 to vein 3 towards termen where it forms a small recurved hook; 

 a subterminal orange spot in submedian fold; cilia white towards 

 apex. Hind wing orange with a terminal black hand, its inner edge 

 incurved at vein 2; cilia white towards apex. Underside of fore 

 win-' with the orange in cell extending to base, no orange patch 

 below middle of cell, the patch below end of cell conjoined to the 

 orange in cell. 



Rah. Congo, L. Tanganyika, M'pala. Exp. 64 millim. This 

 species is unknown to me. 



*72 c. Heraclia tanganyicana. 



Xanfhospilopteryx tanganyikana, Oberth. Ann. Soc. Ent. Fr. 1910, 

 p. 471, pi. 16. f. 1. 



$. Head and thorax black, the latter with whitish patches; 

 abdomen yellow with dorsal blackish bars. Fore wing black ; two 

 small white spots below base of costa and an angled orange mark 

 below the cell; a large conical orange medial patch from below 

 costa to just above inner margin with an oblique black band at 

 middle from just below its upper edge to below middle of cell with 

 two blue spot's on it ; an oblique blue discoidal bar ; a broad oblique 

 orange hand from below costa beyond middle to vein 3 towards 

 termen, rounded below ; an orange subterminal spot in submedian 

 fold; cilia white towards apex. Hind wing orange with a terminal 

 Mick band, its inner edge incurved at vein 2 ; cilia white towards 

 apex. Underside of fore wing with the orange extending to base, 

 the medial black band interrupted at median nervure. 



Hub. Congo, Tanganyika. M'pala. Exp. 72 millim. This 

 species is unknown to me. 



*72 </. Heraclia catori. 



Xanthospilopteryx catori, Jord. Nov. Zool. xi. p. 443(1901); id. Seitz 

 Gr.-Schm. xv. Afr. ii. p. 2, pi. 1 a. 



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

 frons, and basal joint, of antennae with small white spots ; tegulaj 

 at middle ami sides, patagia and meso- and metathorax with 



