AMATA. -i) 



hyaline antemedial spot below the cell and a small round spot 

 beyond lower angle. 



Hob. Ugaxd A, Entebbe (Neave), 1 2 .Nsadzi I. (E.A.Minchin), 

 1 $ type. Exp. 32 millini. 



115 h. Amata rubritincta. (Plate IT. fig. IS.) 



Syntomis rulritinda, Hmr?n. A. M. N. H. (7) xi. p. 338 (1903). 



Head, thorax, and abdomen black shot with bine-green ; antenna* 

 white at tips : patagia with some reddish-brown hair ; pectus with 

 cuprous red patches ; frons, coxa* of male, and parts of tibiae and 

 tarsi ochreous white; abdomen with dorsal scarlet band on 1st 

 segment and dorsal and lateral bands on 3rd, 4th, and 5th ; wings 

 shot with purple, the costal area of fore wing with green, the patches 

 reddish hyaline. Fore wing with the inner area cupreous red to 

 beyond middle ; a patch below base of cell ; a wedge-shaped patch 

 in end of cell; an oblique patch below vein 2 extending nearly 

 to termen ; an e^ngate patch above vein 6 and patches above 

 veins 3,4. Hind wing with the basal half reddish hyaline, on inner 

 area extending nearly to tornus ; a rounded postmedial patch above 

 veins 2 and 3 ; cilia brownish towards tornus. 



Hah. Br. E. Africa, Londiani (Betton),4> r? , 4 $ type, L. 

 Nairasha (Weave), 1 S ; Uganda, W. Antrole (Neave), 1 $ ; 

 (Term. E. Africa, Usangu Distr. (Neave), 1 d\ 1 $• Exp. 

 36 millim. 



124 a. Amata tigrina, Wlk. trans, from Trichoefa no. 53. 



*124 h. Amata elvesi. 



Amita elwesi, Roths. Nov. Zool. xvii. p. 432 (1910), & xix. p. 375. pi. iii. 



f. 34. 

 Syntomis tigrina, Hmpsn. Moths 1ml. i. p. 218 (nee Wlk.). 



S . Head, thorax, and abdomen orange-yellow ; antenna? blackish ; 

 tibiae and tarsi suffused with brown ; abdomen with narrow black 

 bands on each segment. Fore wing yellow, the veins and margins 

 narrowly blackish ; traces of a blackish line across middle of sub- 

 median interspace. Hind wing yellow, the termen very narrowly 

 blackish ; the underside with the costa narrowly blackish. 



Hah. Burma (Adamson), type f d in Coll. Rothschild. This 

 is very possibly the male of A. tigrina. 



*12S a. Amata snelleni. 



Amata snelleni, Roths. Nov. Zool. xvii. p. 132 (1910), & xix. p. 375. pi. iii. 

 f. 35. 



9 . Head orange-yellow, the vertex of head, antenna? and palpi 

 black-brown, the antennae white at tips; tegulae orange-yellow; 

 thorax black-brown mixed with orange-yellow; fore coxa 1 and hind 

 leas on inner side yellowish white; abdomen black-brown with 



