74 



AMATID.L'. 



*293 c. Balacra compsa. 



Pseudapiconoma compm, Jord. Nov. Zool. xi. p. 441 (1904) ; Roths. Nov. 



Zool. xix. pi. xiv. f. 42. 

 Pseudapiconoma stigmatica, Griinb. Deutsch. Ent. Zeit. 1907, p. 435, 



pi. iv. fig. 6. 



c? . Head and thorax dark brown ; basal part of antennae crimson 

 at sides ; tegulse edged with orange behind ; thorax with pair of 

 orange streaks ; fore coxa? at sides and femora above crimson ; 

 abdomen with the basal segments crimson at sides, dark brown on 

 dorsum and the 3rd segment, the terminal segments grey dorsally 

 indenting the dark brown on 3rd segment, the anal segment with 

 some dark brown and orange hair, dark lateral stripes with fringes 

 of orange hair, the ventral surface grey with some crimson hair at 

 base and dark pair of spots on 2nd segment. Fore wing dark 

 brown ; two small orange spots at base of inner margin ; obliquely 

 placed hyaline spots below base of vein 2 and on vein 1, a quadrate 

 patch in end of cell, a small spot above base of vein 6 and spots 

 above and below vein 7 nearer apex, a series of large patches 

 between vein 6 and inner margin, below vein 4 extending almost 

 to termen and above veins 3, 2 to cell. Hind wing greyish fuscous, 

 the cell and interspaces just below and beyond it hyaline. 



5 . Tegulse and thorax without yellow ; fore legs without crim- 

 son ; abdomen wholly brown with paired subdorsal and lateral 

 series of black points and a slight lateral tuft of orange hair at 

 extremity ; fore wing without the orange or hyaline spots on basal 

 brown area ; hind wing dark brown with the interspaces below and 

 be} r ond the cell clear hyaline. 



Hab. Angola, Pungo Andongo (Hofmcyer), type f <5 in Coll. 

 Rothschild; Uganda. Exjp. 6 44, $ 62 millirn. 



*29i a. Balacra affinis. 



Pseudapiconoma affinis, Roths. Nov. Zool. xvii. p. 442 (1910), & xix. 

 pi. xiii. f. 20. 



<S . Head and tegulse yellow, frons brown ; palpi, antennse, and a 

 line round the eyes crimson ; thorax brown with some crimson at 

 base of patagia and sides of metathorax ; femora streaked with 

 crimson, the tibise and tarsi brownish white ; abdomen brown with 

 crimson bands edged with whitish, rather broadly on 2nd and 3rd 

 segments, the ventral surface crimson, the segments edged with 

 whitish. Fore wing red-brown with crimson streak below costa to 

 beyond middle and diffused crimson streaks in the interspaces of 

 terminal half. Hind wing with the basal half whitish, the 

 terminal half reddish brown. 



Hab. Congo, Kassai (Taymaiis), t}-pe f S in Coll. Rothschild. 

 Exp. 36 millirn. 



