248 Mr. v& Riley’s Notes on 
terminal or abdominal areas, and is partly obscured by a profusion 
of long pale grey hair-seales. Tails black, their extremities white, 
each with a small ochreous spot at origin. Fringes as in fore-wing. 
Underside, both wings: creamy white with numerous black- 
edged silvery markings; fringes as above. Fore-wing: a small 
basal spot black, and a black sub-basal spot anteriorly filled with 
silver, within cell, both irregular in outline. A black costal streak 
runs from base and ends abruptly, level with the sub-basal 
cell-spot. An anteriorly broader black-edged irregular silvery bar 
across centre of cell from costa to vein 2. The base of wing below 
the cell and as far as this bar black. Beyond cell are three costal 
spots, also silvery, the first joined to the similar bar across cell end, 
the second free, and the third inwardly and posteriorly joined to a 
similar spot most of which lies in area 5. ‘There is a similar some- 
what crescentic apical spot, and another dumb-bell-shaped one mostly 
in area 4 below, external to and touching that mentioned as being 
mostly in area 5. Marginally in area 4 is a large subquadrate black 
spot barely touched with silver. A broad black band, only silvery 
anteriorly, runs from just above vein 4 to tornus and is twice angled 
in its course. The narrow black marginal line is preceded by a 
double row of fine wide V-shaped black marks. Hind-wing : similar, 
heavy, silvery, black-edged spots to those of fore-wing are present 
basally and costally, namely, a large circular one in area 7, touching 
the dark basal mark, and two distally, oblong, also in area 7, partly 
joined together and joining a similar one between them in area 6. 
The cell contains a round black basal spot and an irregular silvery 
central one, and has a silver bar across discocellulars edged with 
brown, not black. The bases of areas la, b and ¢ are occupied by 
mottled brown and black with some silver distally. Between these 
and the marginal markings, which latter are as in fore-wing, the 
bulk of the surface is occupied by irregular silver bands and spots 
which are narrowly edged with black or brown, and are apparently 
produced by the coalescence of discal and subdiscal bands. The 
anal angle bears a clear black spot, and the tails are as above. 
Antennae black, proximally ringed with white. Head above grey, 
below creamy yellow; palpi above black, below creamy yellow. 
Thorax and body above dark grey with bluish tinge, below pale grey, 
the latter striped Jaterally with white at each segment. 
Length of fore-wing, 18°5 mm. 
B.M. Type No. Rh. 142, 9, Solwezi, v. 1917, 
This distinct species, of which unfortunately only the 
one specimen was obtained, is nearest to Spindasis iza Hew., 
S. menelas H. H. Druce, and S. crustaria Holl., but is 
readily separable from all of them. 
