XANTHOSPILOPTERYX. 569 



■white at apex. Hind wing orange-red, with black terminal hand 

 with sinuous inner edge, broad at costa, narrowing to a jjoiut at 

 tornus ; ciHa white. 



Hah. Cameroons, in ColL 8taudinger. Evp. 90 millim. 



T.'J. Xanthospilopteryx longipennis. 



Eusemia luin/ipeiini% Wlk. i. .")1 (IS54) ; Eiitl. ill. Ifet. U. M. i. p. lU, pi. 5. 



f. 5; Kirby, Cat. Ilet. p. 30. 

 A'anthosjnlopteri/x ahacata, Karscli, Ent. Naclir. xviii. p. 181 (1892). 



S . Head and thorax black ; sides of palpi and frons, hack of head, 

 teguloe, and ])atagia with white j^oints ; guUc, coxsc, streaks on 

 femora, and rings on tarsi white ; tibia) with a few orange liairs on 

 outer side ; abdomen dull orange, blackish towards base and ex- 

 tremity, the hair Idackish. Fore wing with three bluish points below 

 basal part of costa ; an orange antemcdial spot sometimes present in 

 cell and an elongate spot on inner margin ; a bar across end of cell, 

 with streak above it and somewhat quadrate spot below vein 2 ; 

 a series of elongate sjiots beyond the cell between veins 8 and 5, a 

 streak above vein 4 with a more rounded spot below its extremity ; 

 a s]>ot above tornus ; some silvery blue in middle of cell and on dis- 

 cocellulars ; cilia white at apex. Hind wing orange-red, black at 

 base ; a broad terminal black band with sinuous inner edge, angled 

 above vein 4 and running back on costa to base ; cilia white at apex. 



2 . Abdomen pale orange, the l)asc and a series of lateral spots 

 black, the ventral surface tinged with black and white. Hind wing 

 with the cilia mosth'^ Avhite. 



Hah. AsiiANTi, 3 c? , 1 2 > tvpe ; Gerjiax W. Africa, Baliburg ; 

 Congo, Kuilu, 1 ?. E.cp., c? '92-106, $ 82 millim. 



*74, Xanthospilopteryx cirbyi. (Plate LII. fig. 17.) 



XantJio»pllopfcry.v kirhyi, IIoU. A. M. N. IT. xx. p. 292 (1897). 



S . Wack ; 1st and 2nd joints of palpi, sides of frons, and vertex 

 of head with white points ; teguhe with two pairs of pale yellow 

 spots ; ])ntagia and thorax with some white hairs ; legs streaked 

 with white and with some yellow on tibiit ; abdomen brownish 

 orange, the dorsum with some long black hairs, segmental and 

 lateral lines and terminal segment black mixed with yellow hair. 

 Fore wing with tbroe small yellow s])ots on ])asiil area below the 

 costa, one in cell, two l)elo\v the cell, and one above vein 1 ; a medial 

 ochrcous-yellow band composed of a streak below costa conjoined to 

 a quadrate patch in cell, conjoined to a large lunulato patch below 

 the cell and an obli(]ue mark on inner area ; some silvery-blue scales 

 in the cell before tbe band and on discocellulars ; an oblique post- 

 medial band formed by four elongate spots from below costa to vein 

 4, Avith a more rounded spol below vein 4 ; a small s])ot abiwe tornus ; 

 cilia white at apex. Hind wing ochreous yellow, with difl'used black 

 on basal and iinier areas; a broad terminal black band expanding 



