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wing as a dull blood-red stripe; a similar (but imperfect) 

 oblique subapical purplish-black dash, followed almost imme- 

 diately by an oblique inwardly directed arched stripe of red, 

 which runs to inner margin ; a black discocellular dash : 

 secondaries straw-yellow, with a black spot on upper disco- 

 cellular veinlet and a red dash near anal angle : face ochreous ; 

 vertex of head and broadly pectinated antenna? black ; collar 

 and front of pterygodes stramineous ; remainder of pterygodea 

 and thorax sericeous sordid creamy white ; abdomen greyer, 

 yellowish at sides. Under surface of all the wings ochreous ; 

 primaries with no inner band and the outer band reduced to 

 an oblique dash ; black discocellular dash as above : second- 

 aries with a red spot beyond the cell ; otherwise as above : 

 body below cream-coloured, the legs partly stramineous ; 

 palpi ochreous. 



Expanse of wings' 33 millim. 



< , Kasitu River, foot of Jakwa Mountain, Henga, west 

 ' T <ake Nyasa, June 16th, 1895. 



