560 lMiAr.KNoinin.F. 



79. Heraclia nigridorsa, insert (syns.) : — 



Xanthospilopteryx triseriata, Bartel, Verh. zool.-bot. Ges.Wien, liii. p. 125 



(1903). 

 Xanthospilopterya egregia, Wichgraf, Ent. Zeit. Guben, xxii. p. 10(3 (1908). 



Xanthospilopteryx tessmanni, Strand, Arch. Naturg. Ixxviii. A. vi. p. 195 

 (1912). 



= ab. Tcarschi. 



*S0 a. Heraclia batesi. 



Xanthospilopteryx batesi, Druce, A. M. N. H. (8) v. p. 395 (1910); .lord. 

 Seitz, Gr.-Schm. xv. Afr. ii. p. 5, pi. 4/. 



$. Head, thorax, and abdomen black; 1st and 2nd joints of 

 palpi, sides of frons, head behind antenna?, and tegulae with small 

 white spots; fore tibiae with some yellow; mid and hind femora 

 streaked with whitish. Fore wing black; some silvery bluish 

 marks on basal area, in middle of cell, and oh discocellulars ; a minute 

 yellow antemedial spot above median nervure, a triangular spot 

 above vein 1 and elongate patch below it ; an oblique quadrate 

 orange-yellow patch in cell towards extremity and a large oblique 

 patch below vein 2 ; a broad oblique postmedial band from below 

 costa to above vein 3 towards termen, its lower extremity rounded 

 and the veins on it streaked with blackish; a round spol above 

 tornus; cilia white at apex and mixed with white towards tornus. 

 Hind wing black, the cilia white; the underside with broad diffused 

 yellow fascia below costa from near base to towards apex. 



Sab. Qameboons, Ja 11., Bitje {Bute*), type t 2 i" Coll. 

 Joicey. Exp. 82 millim. 



*81 a. Heraclia gruenbergi. 



Xanthospilopteryx gruenbergi, Wichgraf, Int. Ent. Zeit. v. p. 175 (1911) ; 

 Jord. Seitz, Gr.-Schm. xv. Afr. ii. p. 3, pi. 2 b. 



d . Head, thorax, and abdomen black, the sides of frons and 

 head between antenna: with white points, the tegulae with two white 

 points at tips, the patagia with slight white points: palpi with 

 white spots on 1st and 2nd joints ; le^s irrorated with white, the 

 tibiae at extremities and tarsi at middle ringed with white, the 

 fore tibiae fringed with orange hair towards extremities; abdomen 

 with fulvous streaks at sides towards base. Fore wing black; an 

 oblique medial creamy white hand formed by a large quadrate 

 patch in the cell and patch below the cell, rather triangular below ; 

 postmedial creamy white spots from below costa to vein 5, an 

 elongate spot below vein 5 with a spot below its extremity, and a 

 minute sul (terminal spot at submedian fold; three minute blue spots 

 below basil part of costa ; some silvery blue above base id' vein 1 

 followed by two minute blue spot-, an oblique silvery blue striga 

 at middle of cell and some scales in submedian fold, a curved 

 silvery blue discoidal striga; cilia white at apex. Hind wing 

 creamy white, the base and in net- margin fuscous black, the terminal 

 area black, broadly at costa, narrowing to tornus; cilia white at 

 apex. Underside of tore wing with the spot above tornus larger; 

 bind wing with the black on costa extending narrowly to base. 



//"!>. Br. E. A i i; i< \. Nairobi (Jackson), in Coll. liothschild. 

 Exp. '.) I millim. 



