41 G NocxriD-i:. 



apex, narrowiug to tonius, its inner ed,2;e curved, some whitish 

 marks on tenuen from vein 7 to tornus ; hind wing with the termen 

 narrowly dark to before middle. 



i/ff6. Mashonaland (Dohbie), 1 J , 1 ?, Salisbury (Marshall), 



I 5 type. Exp. 44-52 millim. 



*488o. Parataerta laminifera. 



Euscirrkojjff-rits laminifer, Saabii. Lep. Madag. p. 140, f. 133 (1884) ; 

 Kirby, Cat. Lep. He't. p. 40. 



Head and thorax red-brown mixed witli grey ; abdomen orange. 

 Fore wing red-brown, the inner area and streaks on the veins 

 darker, the terminal area grey ; a black discoidal poir>t ; a white 

 fascia in submedian interspace from near base to postmedial line, 

 very narrow to before middle, where it is interrupted, then broader, 

 its lower edge produced to a point beyond middle, ending as a 

 narrow streak from upper edge : postmedial line obliquely curved 

 from costa towards apex to extremity of the white fascia ; a slight 

 pale subterminal line, acutely angled inwards in submedian fold ; a 

 tine dark terminal line. Hind wing orange-yellow with rather 

 diffused brown terminal band from apex to just above tornus, its 

 inner edge angled inwards in submedian fold. 



Hob. Madagascar, Xossi-be. Exp. 50 millim. This species is 

 unknown to me. 



Genus GERRA. 



Type. 



Gerra, Wlk. xxxi. 141 (1854) radicalis. 



Fenaria, Grote, Papilio, ii. p. 132 (1882) sevor.'^a. 



Proboscis fully developed ; palpi obliquely porrect to just beyond fVoiis, the 

 2nd joint fringed with long hair below, tlie 3rd short ; f'rons with large rounded 

 prominence with truncate conical process at centi'e, with raised edges and 

 corneous plate below it; eyes large, round ; aiitennjB of male bipectinate with 

 moderate branches to apex, of female serrate; thorax clothed with hair and 

 hair-hke scales and without crests; tibi;c fringed with long hair; abdomen 

 with dorsal crests on basal segments. Fore wing with the apex rounded, the 

 termen evenly curved and hardly crenulate ; veins 3 and ft from near angle of 

 cell; () from upper angle; ',) from It) anastomosing with 8 to form the areola; 



II from cell. Hind wing with veins 3.4 from angle of cell; ;> obsolescent 

 from middle of discocelhilars ; (>, 7 from upper angle; 8 anastomosing with 

 the cell near base only. 



A. Fore wing with yellow band beyond the cell on underside. 



a. Shoulders with orange patches rndicalis. 



h. Shoulders without orange patclies sevorsa. 



B. Fore wing with white band beyond the cell on underside telia. 



4886. Gerra radicalis. 



Gen-a radwa/>\ Wlk. xsxi. 141 (18r)4); Kirby, Cat. Lep. Het. p. 40C,. 

 DianiKiia adrusfa, Druce, Biol. Centr.-Am.,' Het. i. p. 334, pi. 30. f. 20 

 (1889). 



Head and thorax ehocolate-brown wiih a few metallic blue scales; 



