RHODOGASTRI.V. 503 



patch ia, below, and beyond cell ; the veins tinged with crimson ; 

 a crimson patch on termen between veins 5 and 2. Underside of 

 fore wing with crimson subcostal streak ; hind wing crimson, with 

 the costal area red-brown. 



Jfab. Gambia. {Sir A. Moloney), 1 ^ type t in Coll. Druce ; 

 NwER 11., Sapele(F. W. Sampson)^ 1 c? ; E- Africa, Moshi. Exp. 

 5-i millim. 



2116, Rhodogastria vidua. 



Noctua vidua. Cram. Pap. IJxot. iii. pi. 264, C (1770) ; Kirby, Cat. Ilet. 



p. 195. 

 Noctua mauritia, StoU, Pap. Exot. iw pi. 31-5, B (1731) ; Kirby, Cat. Het. 



p. 195. 

 Noctua piiella, Fabr. Ent. Syst. 3. i. p. 474 (1794).. 



Head and thorax red-brown ; palpi crimson with black spots ; 

 antennae black ; frous and vertex of head with black spots ; tegiiUc, 

 patagia, shoulders, pro- meso- and metathorax with paired black 

 spots, the tegulae crimson below ; legs crimson striped with brown ; 

 abdomen crimson, dorsally tinged with brown, two lateral series of 

 black spots. Fore wing red-brown ; two black points at base ; the 

 cell, area below it, and interspaces between veins 7 and 2 semi- 

 hyaline. Hind wing brownish ochreous, the disk semihyaline. 



Hah. Lagos (Struhan), 1 J' ; Old C\l.\bar (Sconpson), 1 d ; 

 Guinea; Gold Coast (Johmoa), 1 J ; Congo {Curror, Monte'iro), 

 2 d , 1 $ • Exp. 50 millim. 



*2117. Rhodogastria nigroapicalis. 



Telochyta nk/roapicalis, Auriv. Eut. Tidskr. 1899, p. 24-. 



$ . White ; palpi, basal joint of antennte, and back of head 

 pink, the extremities of joints of palpi black ; the vertex, of head, 

 tegulse, patagia in front and behind, raeso- and metathorax with 

 black spots ; pectus yellow ; legs pink, the fore tibia) and tarsi 

 with fuscous streaks above ; abdomen crimson above, yellow below. 

 Fore wing with two subbasal black points ; the terminal area 

 fuscous black, forming a large apical patch with oblique inner edge, 

 narrowing at middle then expanding towards tornus. Hind Aving 

 with apical fuscous patch ; tlio inner area fuscous, expanding on 

 termen to below vein '6. 



llah. Cameroons, Earombi (Preiiss). Exp. 58 millim. Typo in 

 Coll. Staudinger. This species is unknown to me. 



2118. Rhodogastria vitripennis. 



Afjanais vitripennis, Hlancli. fl'Orbigny's Diet. Hist. Nat.. Atlas Zool. ii. Ins. 



■ Lep. pi. 13. C. 3 (1849) ; Kirby, Cut. Hot. p. 194. 

 Amblt/thi/ris radania, Mab. EuU. Soc. riiilom. (7) iii. p. 137 (1879). 

 Felochi/ta vidua, Saalm. Lep. Madag. i. ]i. 150, pi. 5. f. 52 (1884), nee Cram. 



Head and thorax reddi.sh buff ; palpi crimson, with black points 

 above ; upper part of frons, basal joint oi anteiuuo, and vertex of 

 head with black points ; teguhc, shoulders, pro- meso- and meta- 

 thorax with pairs of black spots; legs mostly crimson, with black 



