PITAL.IXOIDID/E. 



162 I. Tuerta mahdi. 



ra mahdi, Pag. Jakrb. Xass. Yer. lvi. p. 9, pi. i. f. 3 (1903). 

 Paratuerta argentifascia. Fawcett, P. Z. S. 1915, p. 94. pi. i. f. la. 



$ . Head and thorax red-brown mixed with white ; frons white 

 at sides ; palpi with the extremities of 2nd and 3rd joints white ; 

 pectus white ; lees brown and white, the fore tibiae banded yellow 

 and blackish ; abdomen yellow, the basal crest white and black 

 followed bv some brown irro ration. Fore wing chocolate-bi'uwn 

 thickly overlaid by grey-white scales, the inner medial area redder; 

 a wedge-shaped white fascia in cell from base, then along median 

 nervure to lower angle, its outer edge oblique and sinuous, met at 

 lower angle of cell by an oblique white band from costa towards 

 apex, its outer edge slightly angled at vein 1 ; an oblique buff ante- 

 medial band defined on inner side by silver from the fascia to inner 

 margin and a similar band denned on outer side by silver defining 

 the outer edge of the postmedial band and fascia, then continued 

 to inner margin and excurved below submedian fold ; some silvery 

 scales below costa near base, in upper part of extremity of cell and 

 on discocellulars ; an indistinct red subterminal band irrorated with 

 silver ; a series of small black spots just before termen. Hind wing 

 orange-yellow; a black-brown terminal band narrowing to tornus, 

 its inner edge incurved at vein 2. Underside of fore wing brown, 

 the costa in-orated with white, the cell and area below it yellow, an 

 oblique yellow postmedial band from below costa to vein 3, the 

 termen with white before the blackish spots ; hind wing with the 

 brown extending narrowly on costa to before middle. 



Sab. So:malila>~d, Hanadscho ( JErlanger) i type t $ in Coll. 

 Rothschild; Br. E. Africa. Kedai (Feather), 1 $ typo argenti- 

 fascia. Exjj. 34—36 milKm. 



163. Tuerta sabulosa, del. Fenaria sevorsa, Grote. 



167 a. Tuerta hemicycla. (Plate LXXI. fig. 10.) 



Tuerta hemicycla, Hmpsn. A. It X. H. (7) xiv. p. 166 (1904). 



<S . Head and thorax clothed with brown-red and white hair ; 

 ith white ; abdomen fulvous dorsally tinged with red, 

 whitis fcbas a live thickly irrorated with brown- 



red ; a subbasal red band from costa to submedian fold ; orbicular 

 and renifomi defined by red, with red centres, and with patches of 

 silverv scales on them ; a semicircular white mark defining the 

 former and inner edge of latter which is defined on outer side by an 

 oblique white band from below costa to below vein 4 with sinuous 



. o red lines with silver between them from the - 

 circular mark to inner margin ; a fine terminal line ; cilia white 

 and red- Hind wing pale red, the terminal area deep red; cilia 

 te and red ; the underside paler. 



III. Bahamas, Abaco (F. A. MJeers), 1 J type. Exp. 

 30 millim. 



