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below base of vein 2 ; an oblique band from below costa 

 beyond middle to vein Jj towards termen, with a notch in its 

 inner side at vein 4 ; a sjjot above tornus ; an oblique silvery-blue 

 spot in middle of cell, with some scales below the cell, and a dis- 

 coidal lunule ; cilia white at apex. Hind wing crimson-red ; a broad 

 terminal black band with sinuous inner edge, expanding on apical 

 area and vein 2 and running inwards on costa to before middle; cilia 

 white at apex. 



Ab. 1, fathna. Fore wing with the antemedial band interrupted 

 at median nervure and in submedian fold. 



Hah. Br. E. Africa, Taita ( Wray), 2 S type fattma ; Be. C. 

 Africa, Zomba {Johnston), 2 § ; Zululand (An<jas), 1 J ; Naxal 

 {Gooch, Gueinziiis, Trimen), 3 cj' , 3 $, type. Exp., S 68, $ 76 

 raillim. Type t $ meretruv in Mus. Oxon. 



G7. Xaiithospilopteryx geryon. 



Noctua genjon, Fabr. Spec. Ins. ii. p. 210 (1781) ; Kirby, Cat. Het. p. 29. 

 Noctua eiiphcmia, StoU, Pap. Exot. iv. pi. 345, A (1782). 

 Euseniia mujatrir, Westw. Gates' Matabeleland, p. 35(5 (1881); Kirby, 

 Cat. Het.' p. 29. 



Head and thorax black ; palpi, sides of frons, and back of head 

 with white points ; tegubc with tvro pairs of orange spots ; patagia 

 with white points ; gulce and patches on pectus and coxa), streaks 

 on femora, and rings on tarsi white ; tibioe with orange patches ; 

 abdomen black, with orange dorsal bauds and white lateral spots 

 and ventral bands. Fore wing black, with tAvo orange spots below 

 base of costa ; an antemedial triangular spot in cell, often with 

 streaks above and below it and a spot above vein 1, a streak on inner 

 margin ; quadrate patches in end of cell and below base of vein 2, 

 the latter sometimes very large ; an oblique band with irregular 

 edges from below costa beyond middle to vein 2, with a notch on its 

 inner side at vein 4, this band sometimes connected with the patch 

 below vein 2 ; a spot above tornus ; some silvery blue in and below 

 the cell near base, in and below middle of cell and on discocellulars ; 

 cilia white at apex. Hind wing orange-red to crimson-red ; the 

 costa black ; a broad black terminal band expanding at apex and 

 vein 2 ; cilia white at apex. 



Hub. Liberia, C. Palmas ; Sierra Leone {Mitford, Austen), 3 S ■, 

 3 5; tiuiNEA, 2 J; AsHANTi, 1 $ ; S. Nigeria, Abutshi (AciyHwu), 

 1 2; UPi'Eft Nn.E (PethericJc), 2 c? , Wadelai (Emia), 2 J , 1 $ . 

 Exp. 70-74 millim. Typo t c? mujatrix in Mus. Oxon. 



68. Xanthospilopteryx pallida. 



Eiisemia paHida. Wlk. i. :>2 (1854) ; Bud. 111. Het. B. M. i. p. 10, pi. 5. 



f. 3 ; Kirby, Cat. Het. p. 30. 

 Eiisemia niveosparm, Westw. Gates' Matabeleland, p. 355 (1881); Kirby. 



Cat. Het. p. 30. 



(niveosjwrm.) Head and lliorn x bhick ; sides of palpi and frons, back 

 of head, tegula), and patagia with wliite points ; guke, stripes on coxae 



