572 AGAEISTIDJE. 



*79. Xanthospilopteryx nigridorsa. 



Eusemia nigridorsa, Mab. Bull. Soc. Ent. Fr. (6) x. p. cxxiii (1890) ; id. 



Nov. Lep. pi. 9. f. 4 ; Kirby, Cat. Het. p. 898. 

 Xanthospilopteryx karschii, HoU. A. M. N. H. (6) xx. p. 292 (1897). 



Black : sides of palpi and frons, back of head, teguloo, and patagia 

 with white points ; gulne, coxie, and streaks on femora white ; tibiae 

 with a few orange scales above ; abdomen with slight orange lateral 

 streaks on basal segments and white points on last four segments, a 

 few orange hairs in anal tuft. Fore wing with three bluish-white 

 spots below base of costa ; an oblique orange bar from below costa 

 across end of cell, with a somewhat wedge-shaped spot below it and 

 vein 2 ; an elongate spot ou middle of inner margin ; elongate con- 

 joined spots beyond the cell between veins 8 and 5, a longer spot 

 above vein 4, witli a somewhat triangular spot below it ; cilia tipped 

 with white, wholly white at apex. Hind wing Avith crimson-red 

 patch extending from costal nervure to inner margin and trom before 

 middle to beyond middle, its outer edge slightly waved and angled 

 above vein 4. 



Ab. 1. Jcarschi. Hind wing with the patch orange-yellow ; fore 

 wing with the orange spots larger, an elongate spot above vein 1 

 before middle, and a small spot above tornus. 



Bab. Cameeoons, Barombi, in Coll. 8taudinger. E.vp. 96 millim. 



*80. Xanthospilopteryx grandis. 



Eusemia c/ranclis, Druce, Ent. Mo. Mag. xvi. p. 268 (1880) ; Waterh. Aid, 



ii. pi. 15.5. ff. 3, 4 ; Kii-bv, Cat. Het. p. 25. 

 Eusemia huchhoti, Plotz, Stett. ent. Zeit. xli. p. 81 (1880). 

 Euseinia mela.nchiton,'Mab. Bull. Soc. Ent. Fr. (6) x. p. clxxxiv (1891); 



Kirby, Cat. Het. p. 899. 



Black ; sides of palpi aud frons, back of head, tegula^, and patagia 

 with white points ; gula3, coxa?, and streaks on femora white ; tibiae 

 with a few orange scales above ; abdomen with some orange in anal 

 tuft. Fore wing with three bluish-white spots below base of costa ; 

 an oblique ochreous bar from below costa across end of cell, with a 

 somewhat wedge-shaped spot below it and vein 2 ; elongate conjoined 

 spots beyond the cell between veins 8 and 5, a longer spot above 

 vein 4, with a somewhat triangular spot below it ; a spot above 

 tornus : some silvery blue in middle of cell and on discocellulars ; cilia 

 white at apex. Hind wing Avith the cilia tipped with white, wholly 

 white at apex ; the underside Avith crimson-red patch from near base 

 to beyond middle, ending in streaks on the veins and extending from 

 c-ostal nervure to vein 1. 



Hah. Cameroons, Barombi, type t melancliiton in Coll. Staudinger. 

 Exp. 96 millim. 



81. Xanthospilopteryx hornimani. 



Eusemia liornimani, Druce. Ent. Mo. Mag. xvi. p. 269 (1880) ; Waterh. 

 Aid, ii. pi. 55. f. 15 ; Kirby, Cat. Het. p. 30. 



§ . Black ; sides of palpi and frons, back of head, tegulse, patagia, 



