TI1TATIIUNA. — EX YEA. ft." 1 



vein 7 ami submedian fold extending to the Bubtermina] ■ 

 white line which is very oblique and defined bj i wn towi 



a, then excurved to mar term en and benl it,-. 

 olive-brown patch to the postmedia] line al Bubmedian I 

 outer edge defined by a very slightly 



the narrow terminal area greyish strongly irctnated with 1 

 Hind wing white, the veins towards termen and the ten 

 tinged with red-brown ; the underside with the apical 

 with a few black sc des. 



$. Hind wing suffused with red-brown, the cilia whitish ; I 

 underside ochreous whitish with slight discoid al poinl and 

 diffused postmedial and Bubterroinal shai 



Halt. Gebm. E. Africa., Victoria Nyanza; N. Rhodesia, K 

 r. (Weave), 1 $; Mashonaiand, Salisbury (Marshall), I 

 Natal, Estcourt (Hutchinson), 1 J, 2 $. Exp. ■'•■I 36 millim. 



Genus EXYRA. 



Exyra, Grotc, Check-List Noct. p. 26 (1875) 



Proboscis fully developed ; palpi obliquely upturned, the 2nd joint r< 

 to about middle of frons and moderately fringed with hair in front, tb 

 moderate; frons with rather beak-like pointed prominei 

 hair of frons ; eyes large, round : antennae of male laminate and ciliated ; tl 

 riot I ied with long rough hair and spatulate scales and with 

 fringed with rather long hair ; abdomen long and with* 

 rather long and narrow, the apex rounded, the termen evenly cu 

 orenulate ; veins ." and 5 from near angle of cell : <> fron 

 ]n anastomosing wiih 8 to form the areola; 11 from cell. Hind v* 

 veins.S. 4 from angle of cell ; 5 nearly fully developed from below n 



■ellulars; G. 7 from upper angle ; Sanastc with the • 



only. 



A. Pore w ing purplish crimson 



B. Fore wing black-brown slightly irroratcd with orange-red 



scales 



0. Fore wing yellow with the terminal area black 

 a. Pore wing with antemedial, medial, and 



black-brown bands 



h. Fore wing without bands, the basal half yellow, the 

 terminal half black-brown 



87. Exyra rolandiana. I LXVU 



E.n, liana, Gr cbe, ii. 



pi. 3. f. 35; Smith, Cat. Noct. V 



c? . Head and thorax crimson up a yellow 



brown, the fore tibiae crimson, the tarei pal 

 the anal tuft tipped with crimson. 



slightly irrorated with brown ; traces of an 'li a 



broad yellow band beyond it from middle of cell to ini 

 elliptical yellow discoidal spot ; traces of nn obliq 

 angle of cell to inner margin, with B yellow bar 



