( 741 ) 

 fioo. Rhodafra opheltes. 



Sjihho- opheltes Cramer, Pap. Ex. iii. p. 1G4. t. 'Mb. i. D (1780) (Cape ; " Coromandel " err. loci). 



//;/;« ophelli's, Hiibner, Vrrs. hek. Sriim. p. 137. n. 1471 (1822). 



Dcikphila iipheltes. Walker, List Lep. his. B. M. viii. p. 173. n. 17 (185G) ; ButI,, Trims. Zwil. Sor. 



Laml. ix. p. .^68. n. 4 (1877) ; Kirby, Tram. Enl. Sac. Land. p. 236 (1877) (Cape). 

 Ikihphila iriariae Wallengren, Oefr. Vet. Ak. Fitrh. xxxii. 1. p. 93 (1875). 



S ¥ . Abdomen with one large black basal side-patch. Cinnamon-tawny co.stal 

 area of forewing, above, incised at the veins ; median vein pale. Underside more or 

 less ros}' red ; hindwing with black spot behind at base. 



Ilab. Sonth Africa. 



In the Tring Musenm l-l S3, 5 ?? from: Grahamstown, Cape Colony; 

 Newcastle and Mooi R., Natal. 



(591. Rhodafra marshalli spec, no v. 



<?. Occipnt and thora.x cinnamon, with a pale side-stripe ; abdomen (like 

 upperside of forewing) pale biift", a black basal side-patch ; nnderside of abdomen 

 somewhat deeper in tint; palpns and breast washed with cinnamon. 



Wings, Hppcr.'iidc. Forewing densely irrorated with brown s]iecklos ; a 



cons])icnons blackish brown stigma ; a blackish In'own straight line from apex, where 

 it is a little cnrved, to inner margin, wliicli it reaches 3 mm. from angle ; area 



outside this line more densely speckled ; a black basal posterior patch. Hindwing 



rosy red; a large black basal patcli from cell to abdominal margin, triangular, 

 widest behind, not reaching to end of cell ; cross-veins and M with some black 

 scales ; a black postdiscal band from costal margin to end of SM- ; marginal area 

 buff, speckled with black ; anal angle creamy. 



Vmli'i-side bnfF, shaded with ]iink and ochraceous, densely irrorated with brown 

 except in middle ; postdiscal line of njiperside vestigial below ; marginal area more 

 brown than disc. 



Harpe more oblicjnely rounded at end than in opheltes, slightly acuminate. 

 Dentate ridge of penis-shciith obliipie, less symmetrical than in o/iheltes. 



Length of forewing : 25 mm. 



llalj. Mashonaland. 



One specimen in the British Mnscmra, collected by G. A. K. Marshall. 



CliVIII. ClIAEROCINA gen. nov.— Typus: ,loI,erl>p. 



i ?. Allied to Cechenena and Ktifhloron. Second segments of palpi sei)arate 

 as in those genera, smoothly scaled, without apical tuft on innerside, naked surface 

 longer than broad ; no cavity at end of first segment externally ; scaling of this 

 segment very rough, appearing as if the greater nnmber of the longer scales were 

 rubbed away ; very />■«• .srales at apex of first segment on inuerxide. 



Hub. East Africa. 



One species. 



In the absence (jf dense scaling fVom thc^ cud of t!ie lirst s.'gnuMi( of llir jialpns 

 on jiinersiilr ;iiid in |iiitliTH sinjiiar to ('idcrid. 



