BALACRA. 



7-'? 



except at extremity. Fore wing pale yellow ; the costa and 

 inner margin except towards base black ; the veins mostly streaked 

 with black ; a black streak in cell forked on discocellulars, and a 



Fig-. 14. — Balacra rubwstriata, $ . {. 



diffused oblique fascia below vein 2. Hind wing entirely white. 

 Underside of fore wing with diffused fuscous subapical spots between 

 veins 8 and 5. 



Hab. Togoland (R. Biittiier), type f in Mus. Stockholm. 

 Exp. 58 millim. 



293 b. Balacra nigripennis. 



Merjapisa nigripennis, Auriv. Ark. f. Zool. ii. 4, p. 30 (1904), June. 

 Pseudapiccmoma gloriosa, Jord. Nov. Zool. xi. p. 441 (1904), Sept. ; 



Roths. Nov. Zool. xix. pi. xiv. f. 31. 

 Ptseudapiconoma specuUgera, oblit erata, Griinb. Deutsch. Ent. Zeit. 1907, 



p. 435. 



2 . Head and thorax blue-black ; irons with crimson lateral 

 stripes ; basal joint of antennas with crimson spots ; patagia with 

 crimson stripes ; thorax with crimson stripes followed by spots on 

 metathorax; fore coxae crimson on inner side; pectus with some 

 crimson ; abdomen black shot with blue and with series of crimson 

 bands except on terminal segment, dorsally incomplete at base, a 

 sublateral series of crimson spots. Fore wing black-brown slightly 

 tinged with blue at base ; two crimson points at base of median 

 nervure ; hyaline spots in upper end of cell and below base of 

 vein 2; a series of spots beyond the cell between veins 8 and :!, 

 the spot above vein 5 largest. Hind wing black-brown slightly 

 shot with blue, the base of inner margin crimson. 



Hab. Cextr. Africa, type t $ hi Mus. Stockholm ; < ' \ \i i: i;< m >\ s ; 

 Congo, Katanga, Kanibove (Neave), 2 $ ; Angola, Pungo 

 Andongo (Hofmeyer), type f $ gloriosa in Coll. Rothschild. 

 Ex j). 72 millim. 



