Tropical Africa in the National Collection. 



Petrodava olivata, var. perfusca, Warr., Nov. ZooL, vi, 

 p. 308. 



1 ^, without locality (type). 



Warren's type, also a male from Kaligire, Unyoro, is in 

 coll. Rothschild, and is identical witli albosiynata. I have 

 it in my own collection from Bipindi in the Cameroons. 



Petrodava lucicolor. 



Hyperythra lucicolor, Butler, Ann. Mag. N. H. (4), xvi, 



p. 417 (1875). 

 Tycoonia natalcnsis, Warr., Nov. Zool., iv, p. 114, $ $ 



(1897). _ 

 Petrodava olivata, Warr,, 1. c, p. 253, $. 

 Petrodava latimargo, Warr., 1. c, ix, p. 529, $ (1902). 



1 $, Eb Urru, Brit. E. Africa. 2 $, Nairobi Forest, 

 Kikuyu. 



2 ^, 1 $, Abyssinia. 



Butler's types are from S. Africa in this Museum. 

 Warren's types from Dar-es-Salaam and the Upper Cougo 

 are in coll Rothschild ; they are all forms of one species, 

 and even the following, which has a distinctive look, I 

 describe and name with doubt. 



Petrodava marginata, nov. 



(^ , $ . Yellow, irrorated with red atoms ; palpi red, white at the 

 end ; head and abdomen diffused with orange-red ; transverse bands 

 on wings and cilia of that colour ; no inner band visible, indications of 

 a thin middle band, the discal band broad and continuous, its edges 

 darkest; under-side darker and brighter than above, markings 

 similar; a brown dot at the end of each cell. 



Expanse of wings ^ \^^, $ 1^ inches. 



^, ^, Abyssinia (Gerrard). 



Petrodava illiturata. 



Anthypcrythra (?) illiturata, Warr., Nov. Zool., v, p. 255 

 (1897). 



5 ^, 2 $, Abyssinia. 



The type, a male from S.E. Africa, is in coll. Rothschild. 



