APIS A. G3 



with lateral scries of slight yellowish spots and a dorsal spot on 

 anal segment, the anal tuft with some yellow, the ventral surface 

 banded with yellow. Fore wing dark reddish brown ; a small 

 yellowish white medial spot above vein 1 and small spot in cell 

 towards extremity ; a small round postmedial spot above vein 6 

 and rather more elongate spots above veins 4 and 3. Hind wing 

 dark reddish brown with a small whitish spot above base of vein '.I. 

 Rab. S. Nigeria, Lagos (La inborn), type f d in Mus. Oxon. 

 Exp. 24 millim. 



271 a. Apisa metarctiodes. (Plate III. fig. 2G.) 

 Apisa metarctiodes, Hmpsn. A. M. N. H. (7) xis. p. 224 (1007). 



8 . Head and thorax reddish fulvous ; palpi, frons, branches 

 of antenna?, and tips of tegula? brown ; pectus and fringes of hair 

 on femora and tibiae brown ; abdomen fulvous, tinged with brown 

 towards extremity, a slight whitish dorsal band at base and 

 subdorsal white spots on 2nd segment, the ventral surface brown 

 with the 1st three segments fringed with whitish. Fore wing 

 reddish fulvous, the medial area suffused with dark brown except 

 at costa, narrowing below the cell and embracing all the spots, 

 the veins of terminal area with dark streaks ; a quadrate semi- 

 hyaline white spot in middle of cell and an irregularly elliptical 

 spot below middle of cell extending to below vein 1 ; a trifid spot 

 beyond upper angle of cell from above vein 7 to below G and a 

 bifid spot above and below vein 4; cilia dark brown. Hind wing 

 whitish, the inner area tinged with flesh-yellow and the inner 

 margin and terminal area suffused with brown ; a small brown 

 spot below end of cell above base of vein 2; cilia yellowish ; the 

 underside flesh-yellow, the disk whitish, a curved brown discoidal 

 band. 



Sab. Uganda, Euwenzori, G000 ft. (JVollaston), 1 8 type. 

 Exp. 34 millim. 



271 b. Apisa parachoria, Holland, trans, from Metarctia no. 2s2. 



271 c. Apisa albimacula, n. sp. (Plate III. fig. 27.) 



$ . Head, thorax, and abdomen rufous ; frons and antenna' 

 whitish; tarsi yellowish tinged with rufous ; abdomen with slight 

 whitish dorsal bands on basal half; subbasal white spots on 

 2nd segment and lateral spots on 3rd, 4th, and 5th segments. Fore 

 wing rufous ; a yellowish subbasal patch below the cell ; a round 

 white spot in the cell towards its extremity and medial spot in 

 submedian interspace; a postmedial spot above vein G with small 

 reddish spot above base of vein 7 and a white spot above and 

 below vein 4 which is tinged with reddish. Hind wing rufous ; 

 the cell and costal area to beyond middle whitish ; an elliptical 

 white postmedial spot from vein 1 to below 3. 



