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attention to the fact that in fresh specimens the nervules on the outer 

 area of the upper surface of the primaries are slightly darker than the 

 brown color of the outer marginal band and are thus clearly defined 

 against it. 



Ctenolita Karsch 



(691) 1. Ctenolita anacompa Karsch 

 Ctenolita anacompa Karsch, 1896, Ent. Nachr., XXII, pp. 273, 283. 



A single female, taken at Medje, June 1910, agrees perfectly with 

 specimens in the Holland Collection which were compared by the write)- 

 with the type in Berlin. 



Zygaenidae 



Pompostolinae 



Charidea (luenee 



(692) 1. Charidea hypparchus (Cramer) 

 Sphinx hupparchus Cramer, 1779, Pap. Exot., Ill, p. 7, PI. cxcvn, fig. C. 



One example, Lukolela, July 18, 1909. 



(693) 2. Charidea semiaurata (Walker) 

 Enchromia semiaurata Walker, 1854, List Lep. Het. B. M., I, p. 207. 



One male caught at Stanleyville, August 11, 1909, and two other 

 males taken at Medje, July 9 and 19, 1910. 



Saliunca Walker 



(694) 1. Saliunca thoracica (Walker) 



Tipulodes f thoracica Walker, 1856, List Lep. Het. B. M., VII, p. 1626. 

 Saliunca thoracica Walker, 1864, List Lep. Het. B. M., XXXI, p. 108. 



One specimen taken at Malela, July 8, 1915. It agrees absolutely 

 with a series of specimens in my collection, some of which have been 

 compared with Walker's type. 



(695) 2. Saliunca rubriventris, new species 



9. Anteniui>, head, logy, and lower .side of thorax black; 



^^fc^^^ l)a!pi light brown; upper side of thorax briUiant steely blue; all the 



^^^^BpjB segments of the abdomen above and below fiery red, except the first, 



and having on the sides in the region of the stomata a longitudinal 



series of fine deep black lines, which do not, however, reach the 



anal extremitv, but terminate on the antepenultimate segment. 

 Fig. 8. Saliunca ,-,,. ' i ^i • ^i i- • i-i 



. „ 1 Wnigs verv much the same as m the iirecedmg species. Expanse, 

 rubriventrits, 9 . i . 



31 mm. 



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