586 



AGARISTIDiE. 



with orange-fulvous scales ; the outer half black, its inner edge 

 oblique from costa to below angle of cell 



Hind wing with thr- 



Fig. 251. — Arrothiabicolor, .9- t- 



basal half orange with some black scales at base ; the terminal half 

 black, somewhat diffused basally on the veins. 



Hah. Madagascab, Morondava, type f $ in Coll. Rothschild. Exp. 

 44 millim. 



Genus ARCTIOPAIS. 



Type. 



Arctiopais, Jord. Nov. Zool. iii. p. 46 (1890) ambusta. 



Proboscis fully developed ; palpi with the 2nd joint upturned, fringed with 

 long hair in front, the 3rd very long, naked, porrect ; frons narrowed behind in 

 male, with truncate conical prominence with raised rim at extremity ; antennie 

 almost simple, distinctly dilated towards extremity ; fore tibiae fringed with long 

 hair on outer side ; mid and hind tibi;t fringed with long hair, and in male 

 also the spurs and tai'si of hind legs. Fore wing with vein 3 from close to 

 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 veins 3, 4 

 from angle of cell ; 5 obsolescent from middle of diseocellulars ; 6, 7 horn 

 upper angle. 



107. Arctiopais ambusta. 



Hypsa anibusta, Mab. C. R. Soc. Ent. Beige, xxv. pi. Iv. (1881); Kirbyr 

 Oat. Het. p. 384. 



§ . Orange ; 3rd joint of palpi, antennae, and tarsi black ; abdomen 

 with the terminal segment black. Fore wing with a few silvery scales 



Fig. 252. — Arctiopais ambusta, $ . \. 



below basal part of costa, an irregular obliquely curved interrupted 

 antemedial line with spots beyond it in cell and above vein 1 ; an 



