EorarA. 577 



Subsp. I, rt(/«/rt/:;7.r, We3tw. Gates' Matabeleland, p. 355, pi. G. f. 1 ; Kirby, 

 Cat. Het. p. 29. 



Abdomen with the white sublateral points absent in the Xyasa- 

 land specimeu : fore wing with the orange markings larger, the spot 

 below the cell large and wedge-shaped, especially in the i!^yasaland 

 specimen. 



Hah. Br. C. Afrtc.v, Stevenson lid. {Dewar), 1 cT ; Matabelb- 

 lAND, type t (S ill Mus. Oxon. Exjy. d 60 millim. 



*86. Rotliia xanthopyga. 



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

 Nov. Lep. p. 50, pi. «. f. 1 (1892) ; Kirby, Cat. Het. p. 899. 



6 . Head and thorax black ; 1st and 2nd joints of palpi, sides of 

 frons, back of head, tegular, patagia, pro- meso- and metathorax 

 with yelloAvish-white spots ; fore coxte, femora, and tibice orange, 

 tarsi with whitish bands ; abdomen black with orange bands, the 

 anal tuft orange except at base, the ventral surface with ill-delined 

 yellowish-w^hite bands. Fore wing with small patches of silvery- 

 blue scales near base below costa and above vein 1, before middle 

 below costa, in and below cell and above vein 1, and as a postmedial 

 line represented b}' a discoidal bar and a line from vein 2 to inner 

 margin ; two yellowish subbasal points below costa ; orange ante- 

 medial spots in cell and above vein 1 ; a quadrate spot in end of cell 

 conjoined to a somewhat wedge-shaped spot below base of vein 2, 

 with a spot below it on inner margin ; an oblique postmedial band 

 from below costa to vein 3 and a spot above tornus ; cilia orange at 

 apex. Hind wing crimson, with black terminal band narrowing to 

 a point at tornus ; cilia yellowish at apex. 



Hab. Zaistzibar, type t (J in Coll. Mabille. E.vp. 56 millim. 



87. Rotliia pentelia. (Plate LIII. fig. 1.) 

 Eusemia yentelia, Dmce, P. Z. S. 1887, p. 668 ; Kirby, Cat. Het. p. '30. 



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

 head, tegukc, patagia, and thorax with yellowish-white spots ; gulje 

 yellowisli ; coxa', femora, and tibiie with orange liair ; tarsi ringed 

 wdth white ; abdomen black banded with orange, the extremity 

 orange, the three termiruil segments with the bands reduced to 

 spots on ventral surtaco. Fore wing black ; two ochreous-white 

 points below base of costa ; antemedial ochreous spots in cell and 

 above vein 1 ; a bar across end of cell and a rounded patch on inner 

 area ; a patch beyond the cell between veins S and 2, with rounded 

 extremities and its inner edge concave; a spot above tornus; silvery 

 blue bars in middle of cell and on discocellulars. Hind win<r 

 scarlet, with Idack terminal band, its inner edge sinuous and 

 excised at middle, on costa not extending to middle. 



JIah. Helagoa Bay {Mrs. Monteiro), 1 S • I'^'cp. 54 millim. 



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