Horn i a. "ji;.") 



medial band from below costa to vein ;5 ; a subterrninal series of 

 greenish white spots in the interspaces, the spots towards apex 

 elongate, the spot above tornus pale yellow ; a slight greenish 

 white streak above middle of inner margin; the antemedial area 

 with some silvery blue in cell and submedian intei'space, a bar 

 across middle of cell and patch below the cell, a discoidal bar from 

 just below costa to below angle of cell and spot above inner 

 margin ; cilia pale yellow at tips. Hind wing scarlet with some 

 black at base; a black terminal band slightly incurved at veins 

 3, 2 ; cilia yellowish white at tips. Underside of fore wing with 

 the markings bright yellow, the patch in end of cell conjoined to 

 the spot below the cell and spot above tornus, the subterrninal spots 

 absent. 



Rab. " Germ. E. Africa," Mt. Rungwe, 6500' (Heave), 2 £ 

 type subterminalis, Nyasa. Exp. 42 millim. 



*8S b. Eothia elongata. 



Xanikospilopteryx elongata, Bartel, Verb, zool.-bot. Ges. Wien, liii. p. 124 

 (1903); Jord. Seitz, Gr.-Schm. xv. Afr. ii. p. 2, pi. 2a. 



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

 back of head, tegulse, and shoulders with orange-yellow spots, the 

 patagia with some orange-yellow scales at base ; gense yellow ; palpi 

 with white spots on 1st and 2nd joints ; coxa? with white spots ; 

 tibiae with yellow bands, their extremities and the tarsi ringed with 

 white ; abdomen with small white lateral spots except at base and 

 yellow sublateral streaks towards base. Fore wing black ; two 

 orange-yellow spots below base of costa and a small subbasal spot 

 above vein 1 ; an oblique antemedial band from below costa to 

 vein 1 ; a quadrate spot in cell towards extremity and elliptical 

 spot below vein 2 ; an oblique band from below costa beyond 

 middle to below vein 4 near termen where its extremity is hooked; 

 a small subterrninal- spot in submedian fold ; some silvery blue 

 irroration on basal area, in middle of cell, and on discocellulars. 

 Hind wing orange-scarlet ; a rather narrow terminal black-brown 

 band, its inner edge angled outwards at vein 4, then sinuous. 

 Underside of fore wing with the basal area orange-yellow, the 

 medial spots conjoined ; hind wing with the costal edge orange- 

 yellow. 



Hab. " Germ. E. Africa," Lake Nyasa, Manow, in Coll. Roth- 

 schild. JSxp. 62 millim. 



Sect. II. (Rothia). Fore wing 1 with the cell much shorter; hind wing with 

 the cell rather short ; abdomen of male with slight lateral tufts of 

 hair behind the stigmata. 



89. Rothia vatersi, insert : — 

 var. lutescens, Oberth. tt. Lep. Comp. xi. p. 247, pi. 370, f. 3090 (1916). 

 Hind wing with the scarlet replaced by yellow. 

 Madagascar, Fianarantsoa. 



