ETJXXMNIA. 



Ill 



Genus EULYMNIA, nov. 



Type, E. pulcherrima. 



Pruboscis fully developed ; palpi upturned, short, hardly reaching middle of 

 frons and smoothly scaled ; irons smooth ; eyes large, round ; antennas of mule 

 simple, laminate ; thorax clothed entirely with scales and without crests ; tibiae 

 slightly fringed with hair ; abdomen with dorsal crest at base only. Fore wing 

 with the apes rounded, the termen evenly curved and non-crenulate ; the inner 

 margin somewhat, lobed at base and excised towards tornus, which is slightly 

 hooked; veins 3 and 5 from near angle of cell ; 6 from upper angle ; 9 from 10 

 anastomosing with 8 to form the areole ; 11 from cell. Hind wing with reins 

 3, 4 from angle of cell ; 5 obsolescent from below middle of discocellulars ; 

 6, 7 from upper angle ; S anastomosing with cell to near middle. 



4442. Eulymnia pulcherrima. 

 Consermla pulcherrima, Hmpsn. Ann. S. Afr. Mus. ii. p. 295 (1902). 



S . Head, teguloe, upper edge of patagia, prothorax, and meta- 

 thorax belaud clothed with ochreous and chocolate-red scales, the 

 rest of patagia and thorax violaceous grey ; palpi white, red at 

 tips : antennae with the basal joint white behind : pectus and legs 

 white, the fore legs red-brown in front, the tarsi red-brown ringed 

 with white ; abdomen grey with slight white segmental rings, the 



Fig. 30. — Eulymnia pulcherrima, cj ■ 



basal crest chocolate-red, the anal tuft tinged with rufous, itie 

 ventral surface white. Fore wing violaceous grey, the basal halt" 

 to vein 1 ochreous irrorated with chocolate-red, more thickly below 

 the cell, the veins streaked with red ; an ochreous patch irrorated 

 with red and with red streaks on the veins and two small white 

 spots on its outer edge on costal area towards apex ; subbasal line 

 double, red, slightly waved, from costa to submedian fold ; ante- 

 medial line double, red, angled outwards below costa and cell, then 

 incurved, bent inwards and blackish above inner margin ; orbicular 

 and reniforra defined by red, their annuli formed of yellowish-white 

 spots divided by red streaks, the former round, the latter elliptical ; 

 a dark brown medial line excurved round outer edge of reniform, 

 then oblique ; postmedial line double, red and distinct on the costal 

 patch, excurved from below costa to vein 6, then oblique, sinuous, 

 indistinct ; subterminal line formed of red scales, indistinct to 

 vein 3, then incurved and prominent ; cilia greenish grey with two 

 slight brown lines through them. Hind wing pure white, the 

 costal area and veins 7, 6 suffused with golden brown ; a slight 

 brown terminal line. Underside of fore wing white with yellowish, 

 reddish, and fuscous suffusion on terminal half of costal area ; hind 

 wing wholly white. 



Hab. Mashonaland, Salisbury (Marshall), 1 S type. Exp. 

 42 millim. 



