500 rnALiENOTDIDJE. 



*8da. Rothia holli. 



A naphela holli, Oberth. Ft. L<'p. Conrp. iii. p. 96, pi. x. f. 1 (1900) ; Seitz, 

 ( rr.-Schm. xv. Afr. ii. p. 10, pi. 5 a. 



r? . Head white mixed with blackish ; thorax dark red-brown with 

 pale yellow spots on the patagia ; abdomen dark brown with scarlet 

 dorsal spot on basal segment and orange-yellow bands on the other 

 segments. Fore wing dark red-brown ; a small angled pale yellow 

 antemedial spot in the cell, bar in end of cell, and sinuous band 

 beyond the cell between veins 7 and 2. Hind wing scarlet, the 

 base suffused with brown ; a black-brown terminal band, its inner 

 edge slightly incurved at vein 2. Underside of fore wing with 

 some orange-yellow at base; hind wing with the scarlet extending 

 to base. 



IJah. M.vdagascatc, Fianarantsoa. . E.rp. 40 millim. This 

 species is unknown to me. 



*89 b. Rothia fianarantsoa. 



.-1 naphela fianarantsoa, Oberth. Ann. Soc. Ent. Fr. lxxix. p. 471, pi. 16. f. 5 

 (1911). 



Plead yellowish, the vertex and antenna? brown ; thorax dark 

 brown, the tegulse and prothorax with small yellow spots, the 

 patagia with small yellow spots ; abdomen orange-yellow with 

 series of rather triangular brown dorsal spots. Fore wing black- 

 brown ; some yellow points below base of costa and a slio'bt streak- 

 above inner margin ; an oblique yellow band from below costa at 

 end of cell to above inner margin, pointed below and with slightly 

 sinuous edges ; cilia white towards apex. Hind wing deep crim- 

 son, the basal half with some brown suffusion; the inner margin 

 orange; a terminal black-brown band, broad at costa. narrowing 

 towards tornus ; cilia white towards apex. Underside of fore wing 

 with the bast 1 of inner area orange : hind wing without brown 

 suffusion on the crimson area, its outer edge obliquely curved. 



Hah. Madagascar, Fianarantsoa (Perrot). Exp. 50 millim. 

 This species is unknown to me. 



Dl. Rothia simyra, insert : — 

 ab nigrifimtriata, Jord. Seitz, Gr.-Schm. xv. Afr. ii. p. 8 (1913). 

 Both wings with the cilia wholly black. 

 Mauagas< \i.\ Morondava, type f 6 in Coll. Rothschild. 



•ill a. Rothia cruenta. (Plate PXXi. fig. :}.) 

 Rothia crut nta, Jord. Seitz, Gr.-Schm. xv. Afr. ii. p. 8 (1913). 



c? . Head, thorax, and abdomen black, the sides of Irons, back of 

 head, tegula?, and patagia with small white spots; palpi with white 

 .-(mis on 1 st and 2nd joints and some orange hair at base in IV,, nl : 

 pectus and legs orange, the tarsi suffused with black; ventral sur- 

 face of abdomen orange expanding into oblique lateral bars and 



