RHODOGASTRIA. 



505 



black spots, the tegulie crimson below ; legs mostly crimson, fore 

 and mid coxae with lateral black spots. Fore wing brownish white; 

 two black points at base ; a large discal hyaline patch in and below 

 end of cell and in the interspaces beyond it, extending to npar 



Fig. 225. — Ehodogastria astrcas, (^ . 



(From Moths lud. vol. ii.) 



termen between veins 5 and 2 ; a more or less broad discoidal band, 

 the costal area Irom middle and an apical patch broad to vein 5, then 

 narrow to vein 2, darker brown. 



Ah. 1. madagascarlemis. Fore wing with the discoidal band re- 

 duced to a line on discocellulars, the colour being almost white iu 

 the form fraterna from Bombay, grey-brown in madagascariensis = 

 rliodopa from S. Africa and S. India, darker brown in vitrea from 

 W. Africa. 



Ab. 2. bauri. Tegulse without spots ; fore wing with the hyaline 

 spots beyond the cell defined by dark edges. — 'C. Colony. 



Hab. E. Africa, Saadani ; Congo, 1 $ ; Angola (ilfrs. Monteh'o), 

 1 J; Natal {Gooch), 2 c^ , 1 $ , (Marshall) 1 $ ; C. Colony, Gra- 

 hamstown, 1 c? ; W. China, Ta-chien-lu, Chia-kou-ho (Pratt), 

 I cT , 1 $ ; Formosa (Ilobson), 1 cj ; Bengal (liusscU), 3 $ ; Bombay 

 (Leith), 2 cj, 1 2 , type fraterna; Shevarot Hills (Morris), 1 J ; 

 CoiMBATORE (WaUiouse), 1 c?, type rhodopa ; Ceylon, 1 c? , 1 $; 

 Burma, Toungoo (Watson), 1 §; Bali (Doherty), 1 §; Bouru, 

 typet S communis in Mus. Oxon. ; Aru ( Wallace), 1 5 . Exp. 

 46-74 millim. 



*2121. Rhodogastria serica. 



Amerila serica, Meyr. P. Linn. Soc. N. S. W. (2) i. p. 7G5 (1886) ; Kirby, 

 Cat. Het. p. 195. 



Head and thorax white ; palpi crimson, white in front, the 

 extremity of the joints black ; antennae blackish, crimson at base, 

 the basal joint crimson with a black spot, vertex of head with black 

 point ; tegula;, patagia, pro- meso- and metathorax with paired 

 black points ; legs brownish white, striped with crimson ; abdomen 

 crimson above, the ventral surface white, with lateral and sublateral 

 series of black points. Fore wing uniform whitisli I'uscous ; the 

 base white, with black points on costa and median uervuro. Hind 

 wing uniform whitish fuscous. 



I/a/>. (iuKKNSLANi), Jiockhampton, Gayndali. A'*'^). 52-5-1 millim. 

 This species is unknown to me. 



