7S AMATIDJE. 



inner margin ; a scarlet streak below eosta to beyond middle ; a 

 scarlet spot in end of cell and a spot below base of vein 2 with small 

 yellow centre ; a scarlet postmedial spot with yellow centre in discal 

 fold and small scarlet spots above vein G and below 5. Hind wing- 

 pale scarlet. 



Ab. 1. Fore wing with the spots smaller and without yellow 

 centres. 



Hah. Gold Coast, Kumasi (Whiteside), 1 <^; S. Nigeria, 

 Lagos (Dudgeon), 1 tf,Elmte Meta (Boat/), 1 3, Yorubaland, 

 Ogbomoso (Garter), 1 3 , Old Calabar (Grompton), 1 3 , Onitsha, 

 1 3 ; GrAROON, type f in Mns. Stockholm ; Uganda, Entebbe 

 (Wollaston), 1 3. Exp. 42-46 millim. 



295 b. Balacra cseruleifascia, Wlk. trans, from Mefarctia no. 277. 

 Roths. Nov. Zool. xix. pi. xiii. ff. 8, 9. 



3 . Head, thorax, and abdomen scarlet ; antenna? brown ; tarsi 

 brownish white; abdomen with slight dorsal segmental blackish 

 bands with whitish dorsal points on them. Fore wing red-brown ; 

 small scarlet spots at base on costa and inner margin and below the 

 cell, followed by a spot in the cell; a triangular patch below base 

 of vein 2 and small spots in and below end of cell; postmedial 

 spots above and below vein G. Hind wing scarlet. 



*295 c. Balacra hsemalea. 



Balacra htemalea, Holl. Psyche, vi. p. 397 (1893) ; Roths. Nov. Zool. xix. 

 pi. xiii. ff. 17, 18. 



3 . Head, thorax, and abdomen crimson ; antenna? except to- 

 wards base brown with a bluish tinge, the extreme tips white. 

 Fore wing grey-brown ; a crimson streak below costa to beyond 

 middle ; the basal inner area crimson ; a crimson spot in end of cell 

 and a spot with yellow centre below base of vein 2 ; crimson spots 

 above and below base of vein G and a slight spot below vein 5, the 

 spot below vein 6 with yellowish centre ; the interspaces of terminal 

 area suffused with crimson, rather narrowly towards apex, below 

 vein 3 extending almost to the cell. Hind wing pale crimson. 



Hali. Cameboons; G-aeoox, Ogove R., type t in Coll. Holland, 

 Bale Co. ; Congo, Yakusu. Exp. 52 millim. 



29o (1. Balacra intermedia. 



Balacra intermedia, Rcths. Nov. Zool. xix. p. 120, pi. xiv. f. 23 (1912). 



cT . Head scarlet, the vertex flesh-yellow; palpi at tips and 

 antennse bluish black; thorax reddish yellow; pectus and legs 

 scarlet, streaks on tibia? and the tarsi grey-brown suffused with 

 bluish; abdomen reddish yellow with a small V-shaped black mark 

 at base of anal segment. Fore wing grey-brown ; a subbasal 

 scarlet spot below eosta and some reddish yellow at base of inner 



