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AGABISTID^. 



si)ots in cell, one below the cell and a streak on vein 1, a discoidal 

 bar and spots on outer edge of the postmedial spots ; cilia blackish, 

 with a pale line through them. Hind wing orange, with black 

 discoidal spot and terminal baud angled inwards at veins 5 and 2. 



Ab. 1. Pore wing with the basal yellow area conjoined at costa 

 to the medial spot. — Abyssinia. 



Ab. 2, Fore wing with the black markings on basal half almost 

 obsolete. — Nyasa. 



Ab. 3. Fore wing with all the black markings obsolete. — Accra. 



Ab. 4. intercisa. Larger ; fore wing with the black markings more 

 strongly developed. — Erithrea : Br. E. Africa. 



Mab. SiEREA, Leone (Fo-vcroft), 1 § ; Gold Coast, Accra (Carter), 

 Id, 1 $ ; Sudan, White Nile, Gebt el Meghadid (Dunn), 3 $ ; 

 Eritheea, Bogos ; Abyssinia, Atbara, 1 J ; Br. E. Africa, N'Gatana 

 (Gregory), 3 S , Kampala (Scott-ElUot), 1 6 , Uganda (Ansorge), 1 ? , 

 Machakos ( Graivshay), 1 d ; Nyasaland, Deep Bay (Crawsliay), 2 S •, 

 Zomba (Johnston), 2 S ; Natal, Manini R. (Marshall), 1 $ . Exp. 

 30-46 millim. 



Genus PAIDA. 



Type. 



Paida, Jord. Nov. Zool. iii. p. 47 (1896) j)ulchra. 



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

 Lair, the 3rd long and nearly naked ; frons with long corneous spine and 

 flattened plate below it excised in front ; antennre almost simple, distinctly 

 dilated towards extremity ; hind tibiae fringed with long hair ; abdomen of male 

 with long lateral tufts ol hair on terminal segments. Fore wing with vein 3 

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

 anastomosing with 8 to form the areole; 11 from cell. Hind wing with veins 

 3, 4 from angle of cell ; 6 obsolescent from middle of discocellulars ; 6, 7 from 

 upper angle ; male with the inner margin and toruus fringed with very long 

 hair and some long hairs on the veins of underside of both wings. 



*109. Paida pulchra. 



Paispiilchra, Trimeu, Trans. Ent. Soc. (3) i. p. 524 (1863), $ ; Kirby, Cat. 



Het. p. 41. 

 Pais gordoni, Butl. Ent. Mo. Mag. xvi. p. 10 (1879), d ; Kirby. Cat. Het. 



p. 41. 



Fig. 254. — Paida ptdchra, d • t- 



d . Head whitish ; palpi above and 3rd joint, frons at sides, a 

 stripe on frons, and vertex of head and antennaj black ; tegulse with 

 black stripes at middle and sides ; patagia edged with black and 

 with orange hair on upper edge ; thorax black and white ; 2)cctus 



