BALACRA. 77 



291 /'. Balacra batesi. 



Pseudapiconoma batesi, Druce, A. M. N. H. (S) v. p. 393 (1910) ; Roths. 



Nov. Zool. xix. pi. xiv. ff. 25, 26. 

 Pseudapiconoma congoensis, Roths. Nov. Zool. xvii. p. 443 (1910), & xix. 



pi. xiv. f. 27. 

 Pseudapiconoma batesi, ugandse, Roths. Nov. Zool. xvii. p. 433 (1910), 



& xix. pi. xiv. f. 34. 



5 . Head, thorax, and abdomen orange-yellow, the dorsum of 

 thorax brownish ; palpi and legs crimson, the fore tibia' streaked 

 with blackish ; antennae black, the basal joint crimson; abdomen 

 with greyish black dorsal and lateral bands, the ventral surface 

 with slight segmental black lines on terminal segments, the 

 extremity crimson. Fore wing deep chocolate-brown with some 

 pale crimson at base of costa and inner margin ; a crimson streak 

 on subcostal nervure to beyond middle ; a quadrate yellow spot in 

 middle of cell, pear-shaped spot below base of vein 2 and small 

 oblique spot above base of vein 2, all edged with crimson ; small 

 yellow postmedial spots edged with crimson above and below vein 6. 

 Hind wing uniform orange-yellow. Underside of fore wing yellow 

 to the medial spots, a small postmedial yellow spot edged with 

 crimson in discal fold. 



<S . Thorax yellower ; abdomen with hardly any crimson at 

 extremity, the bands reduced to narrow black lines. 



Ab. 1. congoensis. Fore wing with hardly any trace of the 

 crimson streak below costa, the spots smaller and obsolete between 

 veins 4 and 3, 



Ab. 2. XKjandce. Similar to the type, but fore wing yellower 

 brown with the crimson streak below costa obsolescent. 



Hab. Gold Coast; S. NrGERiA, Ilesha (Humfrey), 1 S ; 

 Cameroons, Ja II., Bitje (Bates), type f § in Coll. Joicey ; 

 Congo, Bonoto, Kassai, Luebo (Landbeclc), type 2 congoensis 

 in Coll. Rothschild ; Uganda, Entebbe (Jackson), typef $ ugan&ee 

 in Coll. Rothschild, Boddo (Neave), 1 $ . Exp. 46 millim. 



295. Balacra flavimacula del. P. testacea and S. hcemalea and 



insert : — 



Pseudapiconoma "flavimacula var. decora. Oberth. Ann. Soc. Ent. 

 Fr. lxxix. p. 470, pi. 17. f. 10 (1911), which is the typical form, 

 whilst f. 8 is a form with the hind wings redder. 



Cameroons. 



295 a. Balacra testacea. 



Pseudapiconoma testacea, Auriv. Ent. Tidskr. ii. p. 46, f. 1 (1881) ; Roths. 

 Nov. Zool. xix. pi. xiii. if. 21, 22. 



d . Head, thorax, and abdomen scarlet ; antennae brownish except 

 towards base. Fore wing scarlet suffused with greyish brown, the 

 interspaces of terminal area less suffused ; some scarlet at base of 



