418 



K0CXU1DJ2. 



before the fine dark terminal line ; cilia dark red-brown. Hind 

 wing wbite, the inner area with some pale brown hair; cilia mixed 

 with reddish, the underside with the costal area irrorated with red. 



Fig. 110. — Amefrontia purpurea, J. I. 



Hal). Sokotra, Hadibu Plain (O.-Grant), 1 r? type ; Be. E. 

 Africa, Taveta (St. A. Rogers), 1 6 . Exp. 26 millim. 



Genus ETHIOPICA, riov. 



Type, E. ritiosa. 



Proboscis aborted, not functional ; palpi upturned, the 2nd joint reaching 

 about to middle of irons and moderately fringed with hair, the 3rd joint 

 short ; frons smooth ; eyes large, rounded ; thorax clothed chiefly with scales, 

 the pro- and metathorax with spreading crests ; tibia; smoothly sealed ; 

 abdomen without crests. Fore wing with the apex rounded, the terraen 

 evenly curved and not crenulate ; veins 3 and 5 from near angle of cell ; 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 ; 5 obsolescent from just 

 below middle of discocellulars; 6, 7 from upper angle: 8 anastomosing with 

 the cell near base only. 



Sect. I. Antennae of male bipectinate with short branches. 



A. Fore wing with the reniform filled in with whitish and 



defined by small white spots. 

 a. Hind wing pure white. 



a 1 . Fore wing purplish red vinosa. 



b l . Fore wing cupreous brown cupricolora. 



h. Hind wing suffused with brown polyatira. 



B. Fore wing with the reniform defined by slight white points 



and not filled in with whitish , Aefperonota, 



0. Fore wing with the reniform represented by a black and 



white point micra. 



4100. Ethiopica vinosa. 



Charidea vhosa, Hmpsn. Ann. S. Afr. Mas. ii. p. 292 (1902). 

 J . Head and thorax purplish red, the scales slightly tipped 



Fig. 111. — Ethiopica vinosa, <j\ |. 

 with white ; tarsi ringed with whitish ; abdomen white, the ventral 



