XAXTHOSPILOPTERYX. POLACANTHOPODA. 



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and thorax with Avhitc spots ; guhc white : pectus, cox3p, femora, 

 and tarsi with white points ; tibia) with orange patches ; abdomen 

 black, a little orange hair at base, dorsal, lateral, sublateral, and 

 ventral series of white spots, the anal tuft orange. Fore wing black ; 

 a white point below base of costa and yellowish spot on inner 

 margin ; a yellowish-white triangular antemcdial patch from sub- 

 costal nervuro to vein 1 ; a quadrate spot in end of cell, and a some- 

 what wedge-shaped patch below vein 2 ; an oblique band beyond the 

 cell between veins 8 and 3 intersected by a black streak on vein 4 ; a 

 spot above tornus ; a silvery-blue spot in middle of cell, some scales 

 below it, and a line on discocellulars. Hind wing yellowish white; 

 a terminal black band narrowing from costa to tornus, the black on 

 costa extending to base. 



Ab. 1. Fore wing without black between veins 3, 2 running up 

 to the cell. 



Hah. Old Calabar, Isubu, 1 5 ; Cajieroons (JZutherford), 1 § . 

 Eccf). 88 millim. 



Genus POLACANTHOPODA, nov. 



Type, P. tigrina. 



Proboscis fully developed ; palpi upturned, the 2nd joint broadly scaled in 

 front, the ord short with rough scales in front; frons with rounded prominence 

 and narrowed above ; antennaj almost simple, distinctly dilated towards 

 extremity ; mid and hind tibi;\; spined, the tibia? fringed with long hair on outer 

 side ; abdomen with dorsal tuft on basal segment. Fore wing with vein 3 from 

 near angle of cell, 5 from above angle ; 6 from upper angle ; 9 from 10 anasto- 

 mosing with 8 to form the areole; 11 from cell. Hind wing with vein '1 fi'om 

 near angle of cell ; 3, 4 from angle ; 5 obsolescent from middle of discocellulars; 

 6, 7 from upper angle ; male with large lateral tufts of hair at base. 



82. Polacanthopoda tigriiia. 



Hespagarista. iiqrina, Druce, P. Z. S. 1882, p. 778, pi. 60. f. 4 ; Kirby, Cat. 

 Het. p. 41. 



Fig. 248. — Polacanthopoda tigrina, S. \. 



Head and thorax black ; palpi with the 1st joint, extremity of 

 2ud, and base of 3rd white ; sides of frons white ; back of head, 

 tegula), patagia, and thorax with white points; pectus with orange 

 hair; ti))iic and tarsi with white spots, tlie hind tibia) fringed with 

 orange hair; abdomen Avitli the first three segments orange, witli 

 dorsal black line, the terminal segments black with white bands. 



