RKODOGASTRIA. 



501 



antennae brown, tho 1st joint crimson ; tegulte with pair of black 

 points and edged with crimson ; patagia, pro- meso- and metathorax 

 with paired black spots ; coxae and femora above crimson ; abdomen 



Fig. 224. — Ehodogastria ruhripes, c? . 



orange above, two lateral series of black spots ; wings semihyalino ; 

 fore wing with subbasal black point on median nervure ; hind wing 

 of male with tho fringe of hair orange-fulvous. 



Ab. 1. Abdomen with the 1st and last three segments dorsally 

 white. — Thursday I. 



Hah. Thtjksdait I. (Mathew), 1 J ; N. Atjstealia, Pt. Darwin 

 (J. J. Walker), 1 (5,1 § ; QuEEifSLAifD, C. York {Elsey), 2 $ type. 

 E.vj[>. 56-60 millim. 



2112. Ehodogastria brunnea, u. sp. (Plate L. fig. 5.) 



J . Head brownish yellow, with black spots at sides of joints of 

 palpus, above frons, and on vertex of head; thorax brown, the tegula), 

 shoulders, patagia, pro- meso- and metathorax with black spots ; 

 pectus and base of legs yellowish, the fore coxre with black spots ; 

 abdomen orange, with two lateral series of black spots, the ventral 

 surface yellow^ish. Pore wing brown ; the disk somewhat hyaline ; 

 the discocellulars darker, with conjoined hyaline white patches 

 beyond them above veins 4, 5, 6. Hind wing brown ; the inner 

 area tinged with orange ; a hyaline fascia in and be30ud upper 

 part of cell. 



Hab. R. Niger, Sapele (F. W. Sampson), 1 c5' type. Exp. 

 56 millim. 



*2113. Rhodogastria roseibarba. (Plate L. fig. 9.) 



Ehodogastria roseibarba, Druce, A. M. N. H. (7) vii. p. 74 (1901). 



d . Head and thorax pale grey-brown ; palpi crimson, with black 

 spots on the joints at sides ; antennte dull crimson ; frons, vertex 

 of head, tegulae, patagia, pro- meso- and metathorax with black 

 spots ; legs crimson and pale brown ; abdomen ochreous whitish, 

 the 1st and last two segments dorsally pale crimson, lateral and 

 sublatcral scries of black points. Pore wing pale brown, witli 

 black point at base of oosta and tv\ o below median nervure ; a 

 hyaline patch in cell ; the interspaces beyond and below the cell 

 hyaline from before middle to towards tormen and with sinuous 



