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Fore wing deep chocolate-brown; minute white subbasal, ante- 

 medial, and medial spots in upper part of cell ; a broad oblique 

 creamy white band from below eosta just beyond the cell 

 to above tornus, its edges slightly sinuous; some silvery blue 

 irroration below basal part of eosta, an oblique striga in middle of 

 cell, a curved discoidal striga and oblique series of spots from 

 below end of cell before the band with another striga before the 

 spot above inner margin : a subterminal series of small silvery blue 

 spots from below eosta to vein 2 ; eilia dark brown. Hind wing 

 black-brown with a chocolate tinge; a large creamy white patch 

 beyond the cell between discal fold and vein 1, its outer edge 

 trisinuate ; cilia white-tipped at apex. Underside of fore wing 

 with subbasal tuft of orange hair from median nervure, the ante- 

 medial and medial creamy white spots in the cell larger. 



Huh. Madagascar, Camp d'Ambras, type t 6 in Coll. Roth- 

 schild. Exp. 42 millim. 



104 a. Itothia panganica. 



Bothia panganica, Karsch, Eut. Nachr. xxiv. p. 330 (1898) ; Boths. Nov. 

 Zool. xii. pi. v. f. 18 ; Jord. Seitz, G-r.-Schm. xv. Afr. ii. p. 10, pi. 3d. 



Head, thorax, and-abdomen black ; 1st and 2nd joints of palpi, 

 frons, vertex of head, tegulse, and patagia with small paired creamy 

 white spots ; pectus with some orange hair, the fore femora and 

 tibiae banded with orange; anal tuft with some orange hair. Fore 

 wing black; small creamy white spots at base, middle, and near 

 end of cell above median nervure; a rather quadrate spot beyond 

 upper angle of cell and a rounded patch beyond lower angle; some 

 silvery scales below eosta near base, in middle of cell, and a dis- 

 coidal bar; some silvery scales in submedian interspace before and 

 beyond middle and near termen ; cilia with some white at apex. 

 Hind wing black with a creamy white patch on termen and cilia at 

 submedian fold, the cilia white at apex. 



ab. 1. Fore wing without the white spots in cell, the patches 

 beyond the cell conjoined to form an oblique band ; cilia of neither 

 wing white at apex. 



Hab. "GrEmr. E. Africa," Usambara Nguelo ; Br. C.Africa, 

 Lauderdale, Mt. Mlanje (Neave), 7 6 , 3 ? . Exp. 40-42 millim. 



105. Veymeria athene, insert (syn.) : — 



ab. suffusa, Jord. Seitz, Gr.-Schm. xv. Afr. ii. p. 11 (1913). 

 "Germ. E. Africa," Tanganyika, typef $ in Coll. Rothschild. 

 The male has the spots on the terminal band of fore and hind 

 wings pure white. 



107. Arctiopais ambusta, insert : — 



ab. melanura, Jord. Seitz, Gr.-Schm. xv. Afr. ii. p. 12 (1913). 

 $ . Abdomen with the anal segment black (in the typical form 

 it is orange). 



Madagascar, Morondava, typef $ in Coll. Rothschild. 



