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b. Fore wing without broad fasciae in interspaces, 

 a'. Head orange on vertex. 



d^. Fore wing with the veins streaked with black... grammiphlcbia. 

 b-. Fore wing with tiie veins not streaked witii 



black bivittata. 



i'. Head white on vertex. 

 d^. Abdomen orange above. 



«■'. Fore wing wiih well-defined crimson fascia 



on costa , insolata. 



h^. Fore wing without crimson fascia on costa... lineola ab. 

 i'-. Abdomen erimbon above lineola. 



1828. Amsacta marginalis. 



Amsacta marginalis, Wlk. iv. 805 (1855) ; Kirby, Cat. Het. p. 400. 



S . Head and thorax red-brown, the head tinged with orange ; 

 antennai with the branches blackish ; abdomen orange, with dorsal 



Fig. 14G. — Amsacta marginalis, (^ . \. 



black bands on each segment. Fore wing red-brown, the costa and 

 inner margin narrowly orange. Hind wing fuscous brown, the cilia 

 orange on tornal half. 



JIab. SiEEKA Leone, 2 cS type. E.vp. 30 millim. 



1829. Amsacta melanogastra. 



Cycnia melanogastra, HoU. Don. Smith's Travels p. 410, pi. — f. 10 (1897). 



Head and thorax grey ; tegulse and patagia edged with orange ; 

 femora orange above ; abdomen orange, with dorsal black patch 

 from 2nd segment to extremity, lateral and sublateral series of 

 black points, the area between them grey, the ventral surface 

 ochreous. Fore wing brownish grey, the costal area yellow, the 

 veins streaked with yellow ; the inner area yellow with a grey- 

 brown fascia; the inner margin, points on discocellulars, and the 

 cilia orange. Hind wing orange-yellow. 



llah. SoiiALiLAND, type t $ in Coll. Holland ; Er. E. Africa, 

 Athi-ya-Mawe {Beiton), 1 d',Eikuyu {Craivshay), 1 c? . Ex^^. 

 50 millim. 



1830. Amsacta grammiphlebia, n. sp, (Plate XLVI. fig. 4.) 



Head orange ; palpi at sides and antenna) black ; tegula? yellow 

 edged with orange ; patagia and thorax ])alo yellow ; sides of pectus 

 and femora above orange ; mid tibia; and the tarsi black ; abdomen 

 orange, with black dorsal streak and segmental lines except on 



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