154 Sir G. F. Hampson on 



above; neek with ochreous ring; legs streaked with ochreous 

 tinged with rufous ; abdomen black-brown with ochreous- 

 white rings and band on fifth and two terminal segments, 

 the ventral surface with some white and scarlet scales, the 

 anal tuft yellow at sides and below. Fore wing dark brown 

 irrorated with fiery red ; a short red streak below base of 

 costaand slight streaks below subcostal and median nervures, 

 the inner margin fiery red to end of cell ; a hyaline streak 

 below the cell and wedge-shaped patch hi cell ; a black 

 discoidal lunule defiYed on outer side by fiery red ; a hyaline 

 patch beyond the cell between veins 9 and 3, with the veins 

 on it streaked with red. Hind wing hyaline, the veins and 

 margins brown ; cilia of inner margin and at tornus yellow. 



Hab. Cape Colony, Cape Town, Rondebosch (T. D. 

 Butler), 1 g type. Exp. 28 mm. 



Resembles S. duleriformis, Wlk., but with fasciculate 

 instead of unipectiuate antennas. 



Sciapteron pyrethra, sp. n. 



? . Head fiery orange-red ; palpi with some black hair at 

 base; frons brown, with whitish patch; antennas blackish 

 above towards tips, the basal joint blackish ; thorax and 

 abdomen black-brown with a metallic silvery gloss ; fore 

 femora at extremity, tibiae, and tarsi orange ; mid legs 

 scarlet, the extremity of femora black ; (hind legs wanting). 

 Fore wing fiery orange-red, with scarlet discoidal spot and 

 traces of hyaline streaks in the interspaces beyond it ; the 

 base black with a metallic-silvery gloss; the costa irrorated 

 with black ; cilia cupreous black-brown. Hind wing hyaline, 

 the veins, costa, and termen fiery orange-red ; vein 1 c 

 streaked w r ith blackish towards termen; cilia cupreous 

 black-brown. 



Hab. Cape Colony, Grahamstown, 1 ? type. Exp. 

 38 mm. 



Allied to S. gracilis, Swinh., from Burma. 



Sciapteron xanthosoma, sp. n. 



(J. Head rufous; palpi pale yellow in front ; frons grey- 

 brown ; thorax glossy grey-brown, with some red on 

 shoulders; legs rufous and brown, the hind coxse whitish ; 

 abdomen golden-yellow, the base, dorsal and lateral stripes, 

 and extremity blue-black. Fore wing rufous mixed with 

 yellow and cupreous red. Hind wing hyaline, the veins and 

 margins reddish brown, the inner margin cupreous red. 



