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82 h. Polacanthopoda humfreyi. 



Polacanthopoda humphreyi, Hmpsn. A.M. N. II. (8) viii. p. H3 (1911) ; 

 Jord. Seitz, Gr.-Schm. xv. At'r. ii. pi. 4 c. 



6 ■ Head black, white at sides ; palpi white at base, the extremity 

 ol 2nd joint and base of 3rd white; antenna; with the shaft white 

 above; thorax deep choeohte-red with the dorsum black, the 

 tegulae with white stripes, the thorax with white dorsal streak, the 

 patagia with white stripes and orange hair on upper edge; pectus 

 orange with some white at neck; fore legs black with orange 

 streaks on femora and tibiae, the latter fringed with white on outer 

 side, the mid and hind legs orange, the mid tibiae with black spots 

 near base and extremity and white ring' at extremity, the hind 

 tibiae with black spot near extremity and white ring at extremity, 

 the tarsi black; abdomen orange with black dorsal stripe and some 

 silvery scales in the crests, a black segmental line on 4th segment, 

 the three terminal segments black ringed with white, the ventral 

 surface with the four terminal segments black with patches of 

 white. Fore wing deep chocolate red, the costal area blackish to 

 - beyond middle, the terminal area redder; a silver} streak on base 

 of vein 1 ; an oblique white striga from base of eosta ; a very 

 oblique subbasal yellowish white line from costa to submedian fold 

 with a silvery spot before it below costa and line from cell to vein 1 ; 

 an oblique white line irrorated with black from below costa before 

 middle to bek>w middle of cell with silvery mark below it above 

 vein 1 ; some silver below anteiuedial part of costa and an oblique 

 bar across middle of cell ; an oblique white bar across end of cell ; 

 a silvery discoidal bar with some silver above it below eosta, a 

 yellowish spot below vein 2 and silver striga at inner margin ; an 

 oblique postmedial series of white streaks irrorated with black in 

 the interspaces from costa to vein 3, then white irroration to inner 

 margin with a silvery line before it, followed by an oblique white 

 line from costa to vein 2, dentate between the streaks towards 

 its lower extremity, then by a silvery line from costa to vein 1 ; a 

 subterminal series of slight whitish streaks irrorated with blackish 

 on each side of the veins. Hind wing deep orange with a, broad 

 black terminal band, its inner edge incurved below vein 2; cilia 

 chequered black and white; the underside with black snot at upper 

 angle of cell, the terminal band with whitish diffused .-pots before 

 termen except towards apex and tornus. 



Hab. S. NlGEKIA, Ilesha (Humfrey), 3 6 type. Exp. 50 

 millim. 



Paere 57-1. Genus ROTHIA, insert :— 



Type. 



Pseudopais, Bartel, Verb, zool.-bot. Ges. Wien, liii. p. 127 



(1903) niyrobasalis. 



m i T. I. i Pseudopais). Fore wing with the cell long ; hind wing with the cell 

 rather long; abdomen of male with thick lateral tofts of hair behind 

 tho stigmata. 



