ATTATUA. — COLBUSA. 11 



Hah. CoXGO, Katanga, Kambove {Neave), 1 2 \ Geum. E. 

 Africa, Usagara Distr. Kilossa {Neave), 1 $ ; Br. C. Africa, 

 Lr. Shire Valley, Chikawa {Neave), 1 $ ; N.E. Khodesia, E. 

 Luaugwa Distr., Mterize R. {Neave), 1 J, 1 $ tyj^e ; Mozam- 

 RiQiE, Gorongoza. Edy. 44 millim. 



777-4. Attatha metaleuca, ."^p. n. (Plate CCXXII. fig. 4.) 



d ■ Head and thorax creamy yellow ; palpi at tips, fi'ons. and 

 anteiuiae blacki.sh ; tegulaj black, white at base ; streaks on shoulders, 

 a band across patagia and mesothorax, and a patch on metathorax 

 black ; fore and hind legs in front and the hind tarsi blacki.sli ; 

 abdomen white tinged Avith ochreous, the basal ci-est black. Fore 

 wing ochreous yellow ; a subbasal wedge-shaped black mark in sub- 

 median interspace ; a black fascia on antemedial part of inner 

 margin ; an oblique quadrate black patch from costa to lower end of 

 cell with its lower extremities produced to points ; an oblique black 

 streak in jwstmedial part of submedian fold ; a wedge-shaped black 

 patch from a]>ical part of costa to below vein 3 near termen, its 

 inner edge indented above vein G and incurved with a fine black Ime 

 before it below vein 6 ; a brownish line on medial part of termen, a 

 small black spot at vein 3 and larger rounded spot at vein 2 ; the 

 terminal area tinged with scarlet towards tornus, a subteiTninal 

 black striga above vein 1. Hind wing creamy-white ; a wedge- 

 .shaped fuscous band from apical' j^art of costa to below A'ein 5 ; 

 cilia fuscous at apex, then tinged with scarlet. Underside of both 

 Avings creamv white with the marking's shewincj faintlv. 



Hah. N. Nigeria, Zungera {Simpson), 1 (S type. Exp. 

 36 millim. 



Genus COLBUSA. 



Tvpe. 



CWi2<sa, Wlk. xxxiii. 978 (18G5) euclidica. 



Proboscis fully developed ; palpi upturned, the 2iid joint reaching to about 

 vertex of head and moderately scaled, the 3rd short or moderate ; frons 

 smooth; eyes large, round; antennae of male ciliated; thorax clothed with 

 l)air and scales mixed, tlie metathorax with spreading crest; tibia? slightly 

 fringed with hair, the fore and liind tibiae not spined ; abdomen with dorsal 

 crest at base only. Fore wing with the apex rounded, the termen evenly curved 

 and nut crenulate; veins 3 and b from near angle of cell ; 6 from upper angle; 

 y from 10 anastomosing with 8 to form the areole; 11 from cell. Hind wing 

 with the cell about half the length of wing; veins 3, 4 from angle; 5 fully 

 developed from well above angle; G, 7 from upper angle ; 8 anastomosing with 

 the cell near base only. 



7775. Colbusa euclidica. 



Culbusa euclidica, Wlk. xxxiii. 978 (1865). 



Head and thorax white ; paljji, frons, antennae, tegula.', shoulders, 

 a band across patagia and mesothorax and a j^atch on metathorax 

 black-brown ; pectus scarlet ; fore and mid legs blackish brown, 



