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small one near the hinder angle. The thorax is black, and, 

 as well as the base of the fore-wings, is marked with small 

 white and yellowish spots. The hind-wings are red (rarely 

 yellow), with a black border, and the long abdomen is gener- 

 ally yellow, banded with black, and tufted at the extremity. 

 Between the spots on the fore-wings there are usually some 

 indistinct blue marks. 



XANTHOSPILOPTERYX AFRICANA. 



(Plate LXXVII. Fig. 4.) 

 Eusemia africana, Butler, Ann. Nat. Hist. (4) xv. p. 142 



(1875) 

 Eusemia meretrix, Westwood, in Gates, Matabeleland, p. 355 



(1881). 

 Xanthospilopteryx africana^ Kirby, Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond. 



1891, p. 287. 



The general description given above will apply to most of 

 the species of this rather extensive genus. The present 

 species measures from i^ to 2^ inches in expanse. The 

 fore- wings are black, with yellow spots, the arrangement of 

 which can be seen in the figure ; the basal spot forms a short 

 band, and the sub-apical spot is long, deeply indented on the 

 inside towards its lower end. The hind-wings are crimson, 

 with black borders, and the fringes are white at the tips of all 

 the wings. The body is black, the head, thorax, and extreme 

 base of the fore-wings being spotted with white or bluish- 

 white, and the abdomen is belted with yellow. 



This pretty species is found in Natal and Zululand. 



GENUS PAIS. 



Pats, Hiibner, Verz. bek. Schmett. p. 279 (1822); Walker 

 List Lepid. Ins. Brit. Mus, i. p. 61 (1854). 



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