Tropical Africa in the National Collection. 50 o 



hind-wings, the red portion limited by a thick dcark red line which 

 commences at costa of fore-wings near the apex, to near the middle 

 of the outer margin, then runs inward to the lower end of the cell 

 and downwards to hinder margin a little beyond the middle, then 

 continued on the hind-wings, being bent outwards at its middle ; 

 there are some yellow marks within the red, towards the apex ; 

 under-side as above but paler ; body and legs yellow. 

 Expanse of wings ^-^ inch. 



Hah. LiKOMA, Nyassaland {E. M. de Jersey). 



Chrysocraspeda zearia, nov. 



$ . Antennaj, frons, and palpi pale purplish-ochreous, also the 

 body and legs beneath ; head and body above dark red-brown, with 

 a strong tinge of pink ; fore-wings with the base half and the whole 

 of the hind-wings of the same colour; this colour on the fore-wings 

 is limited liy an oblique orange edging which extends from the costa 

 near the middle to the hinder angle ; the space beyond is yellow 

 suffused with orange, leaving a yellow oblique band next to the 

 orange edging, and a large sub-apical patch of the same colour as the 

 base of the wing ; hind-wing with a black lunule at the end of the 

 cell ; cilia of both wings broad and yellow with an inside edging of 

 dark orange ; under-side of both wings uniformly pale greyish-pink, 

 with the yellow oblique band of the fore-wings, and yellow cilia 

 to both wings. 



Expanse of wings 1 inch. 



2 $ , Madagascar {Cowan). 

 Chrysocraspeda doricaria, nov, 



9 . Antennas yellow, palpi and frons pink, head and body brownish- 

 ochreous ; wings yellow with many dark pinkish and brownish- 

 ochreous marks and small patches, most frequent along costal and 

 hinder marginal spaces, and also some forming discal and marginal 

 bands rather close together, and joined in the middle by a bar ; a black 

 dot at the end of the cell ; hind-wings similarly marked but having 

 the inner portions more yellow ; two black dots at the end of the cell ; 

 the discal and marginal bands more disjointed ; a large blackish-brown 

 patch on the middle of the alidominal margin, and a corresponding 

 patch on the middle of the abdomen ; under-side yellow with a few 

 pinkish-grey marks on the costal space of the fore-wings. 



Expanse of wings y^ inch. 



2 $ , Madagascar (Cowan). 



