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6900, Aiteta escalerai. (Plate CLXXXVII. fig. 27.) 
Aiteta escalerai, Kheil, Mem. Soc. Espan. i. p. 494 (1909). 
2. Head violaceous grey-brown, the antenne with the outer 
side of basal joint white ; thorax deep sap-green ; pectus and legs 
violaceous brown, the fore coxe fiery red; abdomen violaceous grey 
with whitish segmental lines, dorsally with some fulvous red hair 
and the basal crest grey, ventrally red. Fore wing violaceous grey 
suffused with chocolate-brown especially between lower angle of 
cell and tornus ; the basal inner area deep sap-green ; an indistinct 
curved minutely waved dark antemedial line; a black-brown patch 
on costa beyond middle with an indistinct oblique line from it to 
inner margin ; a slight punctiform dark subterminal line, oblique 
to vein 6, then incurved and ending on termen at vein 3; the 
apical part of termen and cilia black-brown. Hind wing yellow 
tinged with red. Underside of fore wing pale red; hind wing 
yellow, the apical area tinged with red. 
Hab. 8. Nieerta, Lagos, Ebute Meta (Boag), 1 92 ; Seanise 
Guinea, Biafra, Cabo de San Juan. vp. 28 millim., 
6901. Aiteta paralella, n. sp. (Plate CLXXXVII. fig. 28.) 
@. Head and thorax chocolate-red ; pectus and legs with some 
whitish ; abdomen pinkish red. Fore wing pinkish grey irrorated 
with dark brown, the apical area ochreous tinged with reddish 
brown, broad at costa and narrowing to a point at vein 3; an oblique 
pale antemedial line with some chocolate-brown suffusion beyond it ; 
an oblique pale line from costa beyond middle to termen at vein 2, 
some chocolate-brown suffusion before it, widening at middle and 
some beyond it wider at costa and with rather dentate outer edge ; 
an indistinct maculate brown subterminal line, incurved below 
costa and at vein 5 and ending on termen at vein 3; a terminal 
series of brown striz. Hind wing orange-red. Underside orange- 
red, the apical area of fore wing paler. 
Hab. Gorn Coast, Kumasi (Whiteside), 1 Q type. Exp, 
30 millim, 
6902. Aiteta meterythra. (Plate CLXXXVIL. fig. 29.) 
Aiteta meterythra, Hmpsn. A. M. N. H. (7) xvi. p. 593 (1905). 
3. Head and thorax deep rufous; fore tibiz and tarsi and mid 
and hind tibie streaked with rufous, the fringe of very long hair 
on hind tibie tinged with fuscous; abdomen orange-red, the base 
and extremity of dorsum tinged with brown. Fore wing deep 
rufous slightly suffused with grey except on medial area and with 
slight dark irroration; antemedial line defined by grey on inner 
side, outwardly oblique, almost straight; a slight blackish point in 
cell towards extremily and blackish discoidal bar ; postmedial line 
defined by greyish on outer side with some deeper rufous suffusion 
