340 



AKCTIAD-E. 



1857. Estigmene florescens. 



\mca florescem, Moore, Lep. Atk. p. 43, pi. 2. f. 13 (1879) ; Butl. 111. Het. 

 ■^B. M. V. p. 31, pi. 86. f. 3 ; Hmpsn. Moths Ind. u. p. 21 ; Kirby, Cat. 

 Het. p. 240. 



White • palpi and lower part of frons olive-brown ; antennae 

 hlack ; tegulse and patagia with olive-brown stripes, the former 

 slifhtlv edged with crimson ; vertex of thorax olive-brown ; pectus 

 and leo-s olive-brown ; a crimson stripe below the wings ; fore coxae 

 at side and femora above crimson, femora and tibiae with some 

 white ; abdomen crimson above, with dorsal, lateral, and sublateral 

 series of black spots and ventral stripe. Fore wing with the veins 

 orange ; some elongate olive-brown spots on costal area; a maculate 

 fascia composed of large conjoined spots on median nervure, conjoined 

 to a large discoidal spot, to an oblique irregular band from apex and 

 forkin"- on veins 2, 3, 4 ; a more or less complete maculate fascia 

 on vein 1, sometimes conjoined to the fascia on vein 2; some spots 

 on termen. Hind wing sometimes with some fuscous at base; an 

 antemedial spot on costal area ; a discoidal spot ; a spot on costa 

 beyond middle ; a more or less developed and conjoined subterminal 

 series of spots ; some spots on apical part of termen. 



Hab. SiKHiM {Atkinson, Lidderdale), 1^,1$ type. Exp., d 54, 

 2 66 millim. 



*1858. Estigmene trifasciata. 



Alpemis trifasciata, HoU. Entom. xxv. Suppl. p. 92 (1892) ; id. Pr. U.S. Nat. 

 Mus. 1895, p. 249, pi. vii. f. 10. 



S . Pale ashen-grey ; frons and antennae black ; abdomen yellow, 

 with dorsal and lateral series of bhick points ; legs streaked with 

 black above. Pore wing with black point at base ; an obhque 

 antemedial series of points, longer on costal half of wing ; a short black 

 streak below middle of costa with a triangular spot below it, and 

 some short streaks and points above and below median nervure 

 towards lower angle of cell ; a postmedial series of points, excurved 

 from costa to vein 3, then incurved ; some subapical points. Hind 

 wino' with discoidal black point and subterminal points above veins 



6 and 1. ... 



Hah. E. Africa, Kilima'njaro. Exp. 30 millim. This species is 



unknown to me. 



1859. Estigmene dissimilis. (Plate XLVII. fig. 1.) 

 SpUosoma dissimilis, Dist. A. M. N. H. (6) xs. p. 198 (1897). 



S . Head and thorax orange-yellow, vertex of head deeper orange ; 

 palpi and antennaj black ; legs brown above ; abdomen orange with 

 dorsal and lateral series of black spots, the ventral surface ochreous. 

 Pore wing orange-yellow, with black points at angles of cell. Hind 

 wino- yellowish white, the inner area and cilia more yellow ; a 

 diffused fuscous subterminal patch from below apex to vein 2. 



