55 1 i'iial.t:xoil>ii).e. 



yellowish white spots ; pectus with white patches, femora, tibiae, and 

 tarsi with white points, the tibiae with orange bands; abdomen 

 black, dorsally orange except the terminal segments, a dorsal blackish 

 spot at basr, lateral, sublateral, and ventral series of white spots, 

 tin' terminal segment with dorsal band. Fore wing black ; a 

 wedge-shaped orange patch between .subcostal nervure and vein 1 

 from base to before middle and on vein 1 produced to a poinl 

 beyond middle; an oblique orange medial band from subcostal 

 nervure to vein 1, dilated and rounded below and its inner edge 

 slightly angled inwards on median nervure ; an oblique orange post- 

 medial band from vein 10 to below 3 near termen, its lower 

 extremity irregularly rounded; a small orange spot above torn us ; 

 a small white spot below base of eosta, some subbasal silvery blue 

 scales below eosta : some silvery blue marks on the antemedial black 

 band below eosta, in and below cell, a discoidal bar, streak on vein 2 

 towards termen and point near tornus*; cilia white at apex and 

 chequered with white towards tornus. Hind wing scarlet with a 

 black terminal band, narrowing somewhat below vein 3 and slightly 

 angled inwards on vein 2 : cilia chequered black and white. Under- 

 side of fore wing with the antemedial black band reduced to two 

 spots. 



$. Thorax with the spots pure white; abdomen with dorsal 

 series of yellow bands, the band on penultimate segment white, anal 

 tuft orange. Fore wing with the orange markings confluent except 

 the spot above tornus, the black bands reduced to two obliquely- 

 placed medial spots with blue centres and an oblique discoidal bar 

 with irregular blue bar on it, the terminal band strongly angled 

 inwards on vein 2. Hind wing orange-red. 



Hah. Sikkka Leone, Moyamba (Cator), typefc?, ? in Coll. 

 Rothschild. Exp., d 52, y' Is tnillim. 



72 e. Heraclia limbomaculata. 



Xanthospilopteryx limbomaculata, Strand, Sec. Ent. xxiv. p. 108 (1909) ; 

 Jord. Seitz, Gx.-Sckm. xv. Afr. ii. \>. 2, pi, 2 b. 



cj" . Head and thorax black, the sides of frons with white spots, 

 the vertex of head and teguhe each with pair of spots, the patagia 

 and mesothorax with spots, the inetathorax with pair of spots, the 



palpi with white spots on 1st and 2nd joints; abdomen fnlvous 



yellow with some black ai base, the two terminal segments blue- 

 black, the penultimate segmeni with lateral white patches; shoulders 



and pectus with white spots; fore legs with the tibia' orange on 

 outer side except at base, the femora, tibiae, and 1st joint of tarsus 

 with white spots a1 extremity, the mid and hind legs with orange 

 patch on tibia- above, the femora with white spots at middle and 

 extremity, the tibiae and ls1 joints of tarsi witli white spots at 

 extremity and the hind legs with spot on 2nd joint of tarsus ; the 

 abdomen with lateral series (1 f white bands. Fore wing blue-black 

 with a triangular fulvous yellow patch from just below eosta to 

 vein I. separated except below eoMa 1 n 111 1 an oblique medial band 



