ELIGMA. 329 
below apex to submedian fold ; the veins of terminal area streaked 
with violaceous ; the interspaces of terminal area with subterminal 
pairs of obliquely placed black points from below apex to submedian 
fold, the lowest pair not placed obliquely. Hind wing orange- 
yellow with blue-black terminal band, broad at costa and narrowing 
to a point at vein 1, its inner edge cyenly curved, a white patch on it 
at apex; cilia white at tips from the apical patch to vein]. Under- 
side of fore wing orange-yellow to middle, its outer edge excurved 
and sinuous, the costal edge and rest of wing black-brown suffused 
with blue. 
Hab. 8. Niewria, Old Calabar (Rutherford), 1 9 ; Camuroons ; 
Congo; Ancona, Cabiuda (Monteiro), 1 Q type gloriosa. Kup. 
76 millim. 
Larva Auriv. Ark. f. Zool. ii. 4, p. 36 (1904). 
Uniform bright yellow, almost sulphur-yellow ; upperside of head 
dark ; warts small with very long whitish hairs ; prolegs all present. 
Pupa bright brown in a thick tough downy cocoon. 
*6634. Eligma malagassica. (Plate CLXXXIILI. fig. 25.) 
Eligma malagassica, Roths. Noy. Zool. ui. p. 67 (1896). 
Q@. Head and thorax grey-white tinged with brown; palpi black, 
the 2nd joint irrorated with white, the 5rd streaked with white ; 
basal joint of antenne and base of shaft ringed with black; tegule, 
pro- and metathorax with paired black spots; fore tibiee with three 
black spots, the mid tibie with one spot; pectus and hind legs 
orange; tarsi grey, black at base; abdomen orange with dorsal and 
lateral series of small black spots. Fore wing violaceous white ; 
the costal area olive-brown from near base to near apex, defined by 
sulphur-yellow below except towards apex, extending at middle to 
discal fold and with its lower and outer edges dentate; the inner and 
terminal areas suffused with purplish brown, extending to the cell 
except at middle; five black points at base; subbasal black strie below 
costa and cell and a small spet in cell; a waved antemedial black line 
from cell to inner margin; a medial whitish line from submedian 
fold to above inner margin, angled inwards at vein | ; postmedial 
line black, arising at discal fold, interrupted, curved downwards 
and retracted to lower angle of cell below which it is double for a 
short distance, then erect and sinuous; a waved whitish subterminal 
line from below costa to above inner margin, with small brown spots 
before it at middle, double from vein 2 to submedian fold ; a dentate 
black line slightly defined on inner side by white before termen from 
below costa to vein 1. Hind wing orange; a terminal brown band 
tinged with purplish, broad at costa and narrowing to a point at 
vein 2 where it terminates. Underside of fore wing orange, the 
costal edge and terminal area brown with a purplish tinge, the 
brown area ending at vein 1 and with irregular inner edge. 
Hab. Mapacascar, Morondava, type fT 2 in Coll. Rothschild. 
Exp. 60 millim, 
