7G AMATID.E. 



darker brown. Fore wing umber-brown, the inner area greyer 

 brown ; some reddish hair at base of inner margin ; small hyaline 

 spots in upper part of cell towards extremity and below base of 

 vein 2 ; rive rounded hyaline postmedial spots between veins 7 

 and 2, tbe spot below vein 3 small. Hind wing grey-brown with 

 some reddish hair at base ; small elliptical hyaline spots below 

 bases of veins 4, 3. Underside of fore wing with the inner area 

 pale reddish to beyond middle. 



Hab. Cameroons, Ja R., Bitje (Bates), type f $ in Coll. Joicey. 

 Exp. G4 millim. 



294 e. Balacra preussi. 



Metarctia preussi, Auriv. Ark. f. Zool. ii. 4, p. 31 (1904), J; Roths. Nov. 



Zool. xix. pi. xiv. ff. 38, 39. 

 Pseudapiconoma preussi, brunnea, Griinb. Deutsch. Ent. Zeit. 1907, p. 434, 



pi. iv. f . 4, J ; Roths. Nov. Zool. xix. pi. xiv. f. 40. 

 Pseudapiconoma speculigera, Griinb. Deutsch. Ent. Zeit. 1907, p. 434, 



pi. iv. f. 5, 2 . 

 Pseudapiconoma laureola, Druce, A. M. N. H. (8) v. p. 393 (1910). 

 Pseudapiconoma guilliemi, Oberth. Ann. Soc. Ent. Fr. lxxix. p. 469, 



pi. 17. f. 11 (19il). 



cJ . Head and thorax pale brown, tbe sides of frons, base of 

 antennae, and tips of teguhe scarlet, tips of patagia and spots on 

 thorax orange; abdomen pale brown with orange-red segmental 

 bands, the anal tuft orange; pectus scarlet in front, the legs 

 streaked with crimson. Fore wing yellow-brown ; three crimson 

 points near base ; a hyaline spot edged with scarlet in end of cell 

 and another below base of vein 2 ; live hyaline spots slightly edged 

 with scarlet beyond the cell. Hind wing pale yellowish, the cell 

 hyaline, the inner area tinged with scarlet. 



Ab. 1. laureola. Fore wing with the postmedial hyaline spots 

 larger and without red edges. 



Ab. 2. brunnea. Head, thorax, and fore wing browner, the last 

 without red edges to the spots. 



$ . Head and thorax brown tinged with grey ; palpi at base, 

 sides of frons, and gulae crimson ; tips of teguhe, upper edge of 

 patagia, and metathorax dull crimson ; coxa}, femora, and tibiie on 

 inner side crimson ; abdomen dull crimson banded with brown 

 tinged with grey, the ventral surface with the crimson bands 

 narrow. Fore wing dark reddish brown, the base of inner margin 

 tinged with crimson ; a small triangular hyaline spot in cell above 

 origin of vein 2 ; a small elliptical hyaline spot edged with crimson 

 below origin of vein 2 ; four rounded hyaline postmedial spots 

 between veins 7 and 3 denned by dark brown, the uppermost spot 

 smaller, and a slight dark spot below vein 3. Hind wing crimson 

 red, the veins and cilia brownish ; the underside with the costal 

 half suffused with brown. 



Hab. S. Nigeria, Yorubaland, Ogbomoso (Carter), 1 d ; 

 Cameroons, Ja R,, Bitje; Germ. E. Africa, Tanganyika, 

 M'pala. Exp. 6 46, $ 5(3 millim. 



