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surface purplish red. Fore w Lng purplish red slightly irrorated with 

 white ; orbicular and reniform pale ochreous surrounded by white 

 points, the former round, the latter luuulate ; a double curved post- 

 medial series of white points and a series just before termen. 

 Hind wing white, the cilia tinged with pink at apex ; the underside 

 with the costal area suffused with pink, a hue pinkish terminal 

 line. 



Hah. ATashoxaland, Salisbury (Marshall), 1 tf type ; Transvaal, 

 White R. (Cooke), 1 tf . Exp. 28 millim. 



4101. Ethiopica cupricolora. (Plate CXXXIII. fig. 5.) 

 Caradrina cupricolor, Fmpsn. Ann. S. Air. Mus. ii. p. 29'.) (1902). 



c?. Head and thorax purplish red, the scales slightly tipped with 

 white, the vertex of head and antenna? whitish ; pectus and h'u r > 

 rufous mixed with whitish, the tarsi slightly ringed with white; 

 abdomen white tinged with rufous. Fore wing rufous with a 

 cupreous tinge, the costal area tinged with purplish pink, the veins 

 brownish, the interspaces of terminal area with slight whitish 

 streaks; traces of a brown antemedial line, oblique from costa to 

 submedian fold and angled inwards on vein 1 ; orbicular a small 

 round white spot surrounded by four white points; reniform white 

 surrounded by white points ; an indistinct brown postmedial line 

 excurved from costa to vein 4, then oblique : a terminal series of 

 minute white points. Hind wing white, the veins of terminal area 

 and termen faintly tinged with ochreous ; the underside with the 

 costal area tinged with purplish red. 



Hah. Mozambique, Delagoa Hay (Mrs. Monleiro), 1 <3 type. 

 Exp. 22 millim. 



4102. Ethiopica polyastra, n. sp. (Plate CXXXIII. fig. 0.) 



Head and thorax cupreous brown slightlv mixed with greyish ; 

 abdomen pale grey-brown. Fore wing cupreous brown ; basal 

 whitish points below costa and cell and suhbasal points in and 

 below cell with another beyond them in cell; traces of a waved 

 antemedial line, angled inwards on vein 1 and with whitish points 

 on costa, vein 1, and inner margin ; orbicular a round yellowish 

 white spot slightly defined by blackish and with rufous point in 

 centre; reniform with the upper part rufous, the lower yellowish 

 white defined by rufous, constricted at middle and surrounded by 

 yellowish-white points except above ; traces of a postmedial line 

 with whitish point at costa, bent outwards below costa, then 

 dentate and produced to whitish points on the veins, oblique below 

 vein 4 and with some whitish points beyond it on costa ; some 

 subterminal whitish points between costa and vein 5 and a spot 

 above tornus ; a series of small white spots just before termen. 



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