TUERTA. ;"s7 



cold, narrowing to a point at tornus; cilia with a lino pale line at 

 base. Underside of fore vving orange except tin- costal area and the 

 broad terminal area, a Mack spot in end of cell and broad oblique 

 discoidal bar to the terminal band at vein 2 ; hind wing with golden 

 brown suffusion on costal half except at base and before the terminal 

 band except towards tornus. 



I Luh. Br. E. Africa, N'joro (Gholmley), 1 £ type. A'.'-/', 

 lii millini. 



1G2. Tuerta trimeni, insert (syn.) : — 



ah. transitu, Jord. Seitz, Gr.-Sclim. xv. Afr. ii. p. 18 (191 I). 



S. Nigeria, Lagos, type t $ in Coll. Rothschild. 



al). semialla, Jord. Seitz, Gr.-Schm. xv. Afr. ii. p. ID (1914). 



=tri.color. 



Natal, Durban (Leigh), type f <$ in Coll. Eothschild. 



ah. nigriventris, Jord. Seitz, Gr.-Schm. xv. Afr. ii. p. 19 (191 I ). 

 £ . Abdomen with the ventral surface black-brown. 

 Natal, Durban (Leigh), type f 5 in Coll. Rothschild. 



ah. albiventris, Jord. Seitz, Gr.-Schm. xv. Afr. ii. p. 19 (1914). 

 £ . Abdomen with the ventral surface white. 

 Br. E. Africa, Kiboko R. (Ansorgr), tvpe t ? in Coll. Roth- 

 schild. 



1(32 a. Tuerta ovifera. 



Tuerta ovifera, Hmpsn. P. Z. S. 1910, p. 400, pi. xxxvi. f. 25. 



2- Head and thorax black-brown; palpi with the 2nd joint 

 white in front towards base, the 3rd joint white at base; sides of 

 frons and streaks on tegulse and patagia Yellowish white ; pectus 

 and base of legs yellow, the tibiae banded with yellow; abdomen 

 orange-yellow with dorsal black-brown stripe, the ventral surface 

 black-brown with white bands. Fore wing deep chocolate-brown, 

 the terminal area irrorated with grey-white scales; a pale yellow 

 ed :>'-shaped patch in and below the cell from base to origin of 

 vein 2, its upper edge excised towards extremity; a minute triangular 

 yellow spot in upper end of cell; an oblique elliptical pale yellow 

 postmedial patch from below costa to below vein 3 ; some silvery 

 scales below costa near base; oblique greyish bars with silvery scales 

 on them in middle of cell and on discocellulars ; postmedial line 

 double, the inner line grey, the outer silvery, obliquely excurved 

 round the yellow patch from costa to vein 2, then angled inwards 

 to below end of cell and again excurved; cilia greyish, silverv at 

 tips. Hind wing dee]) orange with a broad black-brown terminal 

 1 and ; cilia brownish at base, white at tips. Underside of fore wing 

 with the basal half orange with a small black spot in end of cell. 



II, il. N'.K. Rhodesia, E. Luangwa Distr. (Weave), 2 $ tvpe. 

 F.j-p. !s 5 1 milium 



