PATS. f>7l 



oblique from costa to submedian fold where it is slightly angled, 

 then incurved, the medial area with silvery white markings defined 

 by black consisting of three spots on median nervure connected 

 with an elliptical spot in cell and another below the cell joined to 

 antemedial line by a streak in submedian fold, a rather narrow dis- 

 coidal lunule, the veins beyond the cell and vein 1 streaked with 

 black ; postmedial line black define. I by silvery white on onter side, 

 very minutely waved, oblique from vein (! to lower angle of cell, 

 then incurved, some red and silvery suffusion beyond it ; the veins 

 of terminal area streaked with red with some black scales towards 

 termen; cilia black at base, yellow at tips. Hind wing red, the 

 cilia black at base, yellow at tips, some slight yellow marks, on 

 termen ; the underside with slight discoidal lunule. 



§ . Hind wing orange, a black discoidal lunule, the terminal 

 area black, defining the yellow spots. 



Hab. An'uola, Bihe (Pemberton), 1 <3 , 1 $ . Exp. 54millim. 



111. Pais decora, insert (syns.) : — 



Pais festiva, Jord. Seitz, Gr.-Schm. xv. Afr. ii. p. 14, pi. 3/(1013). 

 Pais festiva, nigripectus, Jord. Seitz, Gr.-Schm. xv. Afr. ii. p. 14 (191.°.). 



X \t \ i„ type f, and Cape Colo:st, Transkei, typef d" nigripectus 

 in Coll. Rothschild. 



Ill a. Pais nyassana. 



Pais nyassana, Bartel, Verh. zool.-bot. Ges. Wien, liii. p. 12S (1903) • Jord. 

 Seitz, Gr.-Schm. xv. Afr. ii. p. 14, pi. 3f. 



d . Head and thorax black ; 1st and 2nd joints of palpi, sides of 

 frons, vertex of head, and tegulae and patagia with white spots; 

 pane white ; patagia fringed with orange hair above ; coxa? orange; 

 tibiae and tarsi banded with orange and white; abdomen black 

 banded with orange, the ventral surface with yellowish white. 

 Fore wing yellowish flesh-colour, the basal area below the cell, the 

 discal fold and postmedial area suffused with purplish red ; some 

 black at base followed by a black spot in the cell; a bisinuate ante- 

 medial line, interrupted in submedian fold, then double, filled in 

 with flesh-colour and retracted to inner margin; orbicular a 

 rather small black ocellus filled in with grey ; reniform black filled 

 with grey, constricted at middle and bisected by the red in discal 

 fold ; postmedial line double filled in with flesh-colour, the inner 

 line strong and slightly interrupted in discal and submedian folds ; 

 terminal area black with a series of somewhat wedge-shaped 

 ochreous spots ; cilia ochreous intersected with black. Hind wins 

 ochreous suffused with red; an obsolescent black discoidal lunule 

 and sinuous postmedial line more distinct on underside ; termen 

 black with some ochreous points at the veins; cilia black at base-, 

 ochreous intersected with black at tips. 



Hal. Br. C. Africa, Nyasa; Angola, Bihe (Pemberton), 

 1 3 . Exp. 44 millim. 



