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c? . Head, thorax, and abdomen orange-red, the last with traces 

 of segmental black lines and dorsal series of blue-grey spots ; 

 antenna) fuscous with a blue tinge except at base. Fore wing red 

 suffused with brown ; a crimson streak on subcostal nervure and 

 some crimson at base of inner margin ; crimson spots in and below 

 end of cell, beyond the cell above and below vein G, varying much 

 in size and often with more or less developed yellow centres ; the 

 interspaces of terminal area red. Hind wing yellow tinged with 

 crimson. 



2 . Abdomen with the segmental black lines and dorsal series of 

 blue-grey spots well developed ; antennae minutely serrate. 



In one specimen veins 4, 5 of fore wing are separate instead of 

 from a point. 



Ab. 1. hcemalea: hind wing crimson. — Cameroons, Mus. Stock- 

 holm ; W. Africa, Ogove K.. and Bule Country, type f in Coll. 

 Holland. 



Hah. AsKASTi (Weslei/an Mission), 1 d type; E. Niger, Onitsha 

 (Wesleyan Mission), 1 d" ; Cameroons; Gaboon, type t teStacea in 

 Mus. Stockholm. £'a.y., 6 40, $ GO millim. 



*29G. Pseudapiconoma ochracea. 



Balacra ochracea, Wlk. Proe. N. H. Soc. Glasgow, i. p. 331 (1869) : Kirby, 

 Cat. Het. p. 221. 



(S . Ochreous ; head and legs crimson ; antennce black ; tarsi 

 blackish. Fore wing with two divergent crimson fascia; from base. 

 Hah. Congo. Exp. 50 millim. 

 This species is unknown to me. 



297. Pseudapiconoma rubriciucta. (Plate VI. fig. 15.) 



Balacra rubricincta, Holland, Psyche, vi. p. 396 (1893). 



S . Head crimson ; a white band between antennae, which are 

 white above, blackish below ; thorax white with five crimson 

 bands, the patagia striped with crimson ; pectus crimson ; legs 

 striped with white ; abdomen white, with crimson bauds on each 

 segment, ventral surface white with paired crimson bars except 

 towards extremity. Fore wing fulvous yellow, the costa white ; 

 a white spot below middle of ceU : the area between veins 2 and 6 

 beyond the cell thinly scaled. Hind wing crimson, thinly scaled 

 towards base ; cilia of both wings white. 



Ab. 1. Fore wing pale brown ; a very worn specimen apparently 

 conspecific. — Ashanti. 



Hah. W. Africa, Bule Country, type f in Coll. Holland ; Ashanti. 

 Exp. 44 millim. 



298. Pseudapiconoma glagoessa. (Plate VI. fig. 14.) 



Balacra glagoessa, Holland, Psyche, vl. p. 396 (1893). 

 (5' . Pure white ; antennae blackish ; palpi except at tips, vertex 



