470 



AKCTIAD^;. 



2066. Teracotona euprepia. (Plate L. fig. 13.) 



Teracoiona etiprepia, Hmpsn. Ann. S. Afr. Mas. ii. p. 58 (1900). 



6 . Head and thorax ochreous white ; palpi crimson, black at 

 tips ; frons with crimson bar above ; antennae black, crimson towards 

 base ; edges of tegulse and patagia crimson ; pectus and femora 

 crimson ; tibiae black, fringed with ochreous hair '; tarsi black ; 

 abdomen orange, clothed with crimson hair at base, subdorsal, 

 lateral, and sublateral series of black spots, the ventral surface 

 ochreous white. Fore wing pale ochreous with a flesh tint ; the 

 veins and streaks in cell and submedian fold black ; a strongly 

 curved black antemedial line ; a discoidal lunule ; the postmedial 

 line developed into a small spot below costa, angled at vein 5, then 

 strongly incurved ; a fine black terminal line ; cilia orange. Hind 

 wing crimson, with slight black discoidal lunule and some points on 

 apical half of termen ; cilia orange. 



Hah. Mashonaland, Salisbury {Marshall), 3 c? type. Exp. 54 

 millim. 



2067. Teracotona rhodophsea. 



Aloa rhodophma, Wlk. xsxi. .302 (1864) ; Kirby, Cat. Het. p. 243. 



Head and thorax whitish, more or less tinged with brown ; palpi 

 scarlet above, the 3rd joint black ; neck with scarlet ring ; patagia 



Fig. 205. — Teracoiona rhodophcBa, cf. ]. 



with black points and edged with scarlet above ; a scarlet stripe 

 below wings ; the femora scarlet above, the tibiae and tarsi streaked 

 with brown ; abdomen scarlet above, grey-white below, with sub- 

 dorsal, lateral, and sublateral series of black spots. Pore wing white, 

 more or less completely suffused and irrorated with dark brown, but 

 always having a patch of white below base of cell ; the antemedial 

 brown line strongly but obtusely angled on median nervure ; a 

 medial line bent outwards between discal and submedian folds and 

 diffused outwardly ; a black discoidal lunule ; the postmedial line 

 strongly bent outwards between veins 5 and 3, and followed by a 

 diffused crenulate line ; dentate subterminal spots between veins 8 

 and 6 and 5 and 2 ; the veins, submedian fold, and cilia brown. 

 Hind wing scarlet, with black discoidal lunule ; the cilia yellow at 

 tips. 



Hah. Br. E. Afeica, Sabaki Valley (Gregory), 2 d , 1 $ , Athi-ya- 

 Mawe (Betton), 1 c? ; N'Gamiland (Anderso7i), 1 5 type. 

 Kvp. 44-45 miUim. 



