during the Cruise of the * Valhalla.' 481 



sccoiifl joints, at tips of liair on second joint, and on maxillary 

 palpi ; frons above, tegul^, .shoulders, base of patagia, meso- 

 and inetathorax with crimson spots ; pectus and legs white, 

 the fore femora and tibiae yellow in front, the tarsus with 

 black bands at base and near tips ; abdomen wMth crimson 

 subdorsal spots, the extremity tinged with crimson and with 

 white line on penultimate segment, the ventral siufacf! white. 

 Fore wing with subbasal crimson points on costa and inner 

 margin; a slightly sinuous crimson antemedial line; a slight 

 silvery discoidal lunule edged with rather diffused crimson ; 

 ])ostmedial line fine, crimson, sinuous, excurved from costa to 

 vein 2, then retracted to lower angle of cell and again some- 

 what excurved ; a crimson subterminal band with silvery 

 line on it and minutely waved edges, angled inwards at 

 discal and submedian folds; a fine crimson terminal line; 

 cilia yellow at base, with crimson medial line and white tips. 

 Hind wing with fine crimson postmedial line, oblique from 

 below costa to vein 2, then retracted to lower angle of cell 

 and oblique to inner margin; a crimson terminal band with 

 minutely waved silver line on it, its inner edge curved 

 inwards below apex and at submedian fold ; cilia yellow at 

 base, with crimson medial line and white tips. 

 Mayotta, 1 c? type. Exp. 20 mm. 



Pachyzancla hipunctalis, Fabr. Ent. Syst. iii. (2) p. 227 

 (1798). 



Mayotta, 1 ? . 



Pionra holo.vuthalis, sp. n. {vide Aldabra). 

 Mayotta, 1 ? . 



Pyrausta inco^oralis^ Guen. Delt. & Pyr. p. 333 (1854). 

 Mayotta, 1 (J ,' 2 ? . 



Aldabra Is., Assumption, and Gloriosa. 

 Arctiadae. 



AliCTIAX^. 



Utethrisa laciea, Butl. Rep. Zool. Coll. 'Alert,' p. 577 (1884). 



Subsp. 1. — DltFt-rs from the ty|)ical form from the Fur- 

 qiihar Is. in having the scarlet spots of fore wing strongly 

 developed, the black spots more or less obsolete. 



Gloriosa, 2 c^, 2 ? ; Assumption, 1 (^ . 



