connecting Tinageria with Eretmncera. 31 



fuscis. Abdomine miniato, in basi flavo, macula lunulari prope 

 basiiii purpurea, fasciculis duobus lateralibus segment! analis 

 nigris. Tibiis violaceo-fuscis. 



Antenncc bronzy brown, fringed with purplish scales to beyond 

 the middle. Palpi fuscous, whitish at the base. Haustellum 

 whitisli at the base. Head bronzy fuscoiis, a few yellow scales at 

 the back. Thorax bronzy fuscous, with two pale yellow spots at 

 its posterior margin. Fore wings purplish fuscous, with three 

 pale yellow spots, the first obliquely curved, extending across the 

 fold from near the base of the dorsal margin to the upper half of 

 the wing; the second and third about the commencement of 

 the apical third of the wing, one costal, the other dorsal and 

 slightly nearer the base, both of equal size ; cilia dark fuscous. 

 Under side tinged with golden yellow at the base, bronzy fuscous 

 beyond, with a vermilion streak running along the middle from 

 the base to the anal angle. Hind lulngs bronzy, tinged with 

 golden red at the base ; cilia at the basal two-thirds of the costal 

 and dorsal margins carmine, beyond dark fuscous. Under side 

 vermilion ; cilia carmine, dark fuscous around the apex. Abdomen 

 vermilion, with a yellow band at the base, wider in the middle 

 than at the sides, followed by a dark purple crescent-shaped spot, 

 the anal segments with a tuft of black scales on each side. Under 

 side pale ochreous, with two square-edged lateral patches near the 

 base and a wide bar across the anal segments, purplish fuscous. 

 Legs bronzy fuscous above, spurs and under sides pale ochreous. 

 Exp. al. 14 mm. 



Hah. Zanzibar {Mr. F. J. Jackson) ; Port Natal 

 (Gueinzius, B. M.).* 



Type, 3 ? , Mus. Wlsm. 



[PL vi., fig. 16.] 



Eretvtocera scatospila, Z., Handl. Kong. Svensk. Ak., 

 1852, 99-100. 



"Alls auterioribus brunneis, linea ex basi, maculis duabus 

 posticis oblique suboppositis lituraque apicis obsoletis lutescenti- 

 griseis ; posterioribus subtus cum ciliis interioribus coccineis ; 

 abdomine coccineo, macula baseos dorsali segmentoque anali 

 nigris ( ? ?). 



" Minor quam 3 praecedentis (fuscipennis). Differt ab ea specie 

 alis auterioribus maculatis, a sequentibus {lunifera and IcBtissima) 

 maculis obsoletis segmentique analis apice coccineo. 



■■' This species was confused with diviseJla by Walker (see p. 33). 



