GATXTATHA. — EGTROGATB \. 285 



Hind wing with vein 3 from well before angle of cell : "> nearly fully deve 

 from just below middle of discocellulars ; 6, 7 shortly BtaLked ; 8 a 

 wiih the cell near base only. 



5428. Cautatha phcenicea, n. pp. 



cJ . Head, thorax, and abdomen ochreous white tinged with fiery 

 red, the palpi, frons, and fore legs in front deep fiery red. Fore 

 wing ochreous white irrorated with fiery or purplish red, the 

 terminal area deep purplish or blood-red except just below apex, 

 the costal edge fiery red; antemedial line fiery red, indistinctly 

 doable and slightly sinuous ; two black discoidal points ; postmedial 

 line fiery rod, indistinctly double with a point at costa. excurved 

 from below costa to vein 5, then slightly incurved, some slight pale 



Fig. 86. — Cautatha phcenicea, tf . IJ. 



points beyond it on costa; subterminal line represented by a series 

 of faint pale points with two slight dark points below costa: a 

 series of faint dark points just before termen slightly defined on 

 outer side by whitish scales; cilia deep fiery rod. Hind wing 

 yellowish irrorated with fiery red; the termen rodder with a series 

 of black points just before it ; cilia deep fiery rod with a fine pale 

 line at base; the underside suffused with bright fiery red. 



Hub. Gold Coast, Kumasi {Whiteside), 3 d type. Exp. 18 

 millim. 



Genus ECTROGATHA, hoy. 



Type, E. himerata. 



Proboscis fully developed ; palpi obliquely upturned, the '2nd joint rear 

 about to middle of frons and fringed with hair in front and behind toward 

 extremity, the 3rd short, porrect ; frons smooth; eyes large; antenni 

 Diale ciliated ; thorax clothed almost entirely wit li scales and without crests; 

 tibiae smoothly scaled; abdomen without crests. Fore wing with the apex 

 produced and acute, the termen excurved at middle, excised toward- apex and 

 oblique towards torn us ; 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 the termen slightly angled at veins 7 and 3; veins 8, 4 from 

 angle of cell; i> nearly fully developed from well above angle; 6, 7 from 

 Upper angle ; 8 anastomosing with the cell near base only. 



5429. Ectrogatha himerata. 



Erosia himerata, W1L xxvi. 17">7 (181 - 



Head pale rufous; thorax and abdomen whitish tinged with 

 rufous and irrorated with brown. wing whitish suffused 



