504 ABCTIAD^. 



points on outer side of coxae ; abdomen crimson above, yellowish- 

 white below, with lateral series of black spots and sublateral spots 

 on first three segments. Fore wing reddish buff; two black points 

 at base : a large discal hyaline patch formed by patches in and 

 below cell and in base of interspaces beyond it between veins 7 and 

 2, between veins 3 and 5 extending rather nearer termen. Hind 

 wing reddish buff, the inner area tinged with crimson ; a semi- 

 hyaline patch in and beyond end of cell. 



Hab. Madagascar, Betsileo {Cowan), 1 c? , 1 $ ; Natal. Ea-p., 

 6 QQ, 2 70 millim. 



2119. Rhodogastria croceri. (Plate L. fig. 14.) 



Euprepia croJceri, Macl. King's Surv. Austr. ii. p. 465 (1827) ; Kirby, Cat. 



Het. p. 19o. 

 Amerila bra^ki/letica, Meyr. P. Linn. Soc. N. S. W. (2) i. p. 765 (1886). 



Head and thorax ochreous white ; palpi crimson with black spots 

 antennae black, crimson at base ; frous and vertex of head with 

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

 with paired black spots, the tegulae edged with crimson; legs mostly 

 crimson; fore and mid tibiae with black streaks; abdomen crimson, 

 the ventral surface ochreous white, two lateral series of black spots. 

 Fore wing with the basal fourth ochreous white, with two black spots, 

 the rest of wing fuscous brown ; the end of cell and area below it 

 semihyaline ; a discoidal fuscous band ; hyaline patches beyond the 

 cell between veins 7 and 3 extending to near termen below vein 5. 

 Hind wing semihyaline whitish, the veins and inner area ochreous 

 brown ; a darker apical patch. 



Hab. Qd-eensland (McGilUvray, Elsey), 3 c? , 1 $ ; N. Britain, 

 1 2 . Ex^}. 60-68 millim. 



2120. Eliodogastria astreas. 



Glaucopis oKireas, Drury, 111. Exot. Ent ii. p. 28, f. 4 (1773); Huipsn. 



Moths LkI. ii. p. 38 ; Kirby, Cat. Het. p. 195. 

 Sphinx melanthus. Cram. Pap. Exot. iii. pi. 286, B (1780). 

 Koctua etigenia, Fabr. Syst. Ent. 3. ii. p. 19 (1794). 

 Chelonia madagasc'arieims, Boisd. Delegorgue, Voy. Afr. Austr. ii. p. 598 



(1847) ; Kirby, Cat Het. p. 195. 

 Amerila rhodopa, Wlk. xxxi. 305 (1864) ; Kirby, Cat. Het. p. 195. 

 Creatonohts communis, Wlk. xxxi. 283 (1864) ; Kirby, Cat. Het. p. 195. 

 Amerila vitrea, Plotz, Stett. ent. Zeit. xli. p. 84 (1880) ; Kirby, Cat. Het. 



p. 19.5. 

 iBhodogastria fraferna, Moore, Trans. Ent. Soc. 1884, p. 356; Kirby, Cat. 



Het. p. 195. 

 Amerila hauri, MoscLI. Verb, zool.-bot. Ges. Wien, xxxiii. p. 289, pi. 16. 



f. 2 (1884). 

 Amerila phcsdra, Weym. Stett. ent. Zeit. liii. p. 106 (1892). 



Head and thorax brownish grey to almost pure white ; palpi 

 crimson with black spots ; frons above, basal joint of antennae, and 

 vertex of head with black spots, the basal joint crimson below ; 

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



