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abdomen scarlet with dorsal grey bars on two basal segments and 

 blue-grey lines between the other segments. Fore wing grey- 

 brown ; a scarlet streak below costa to beyond middle and fascia at 

 base of inner margin bifurcate at extremity; orange-scarlet spots 

 in end of cell, below base of vein 2, and just beyond the cell above 

 veins 6, 5, 4, and elongate marks in the interspaces of terminal 

 area. Hind wing yellow tinged with scarlet. Underside of fore 

 wing suffused with scarlet except the costa and veins. 



Hub. Gold Coast, Aburi (Armstrong), 1 6 type. Exp. 58 

 millim. 



*29G b. Balacra germana. 



Balacra germana, Roths. Nov. Zool. xix. p. 119, pi. xiv. f. 24 (1912). 



J. Head crimson; antennae (broken) white at base; tegulae 

 crimson, grey-white at base ; patagia crimson; thorax grey-white 

 with crimson patches on meso- and metathorax ; pectus crimson 

 with slight lateral grey-white patches; femora crimson, the tibiae 

 and tarsi pale grey ; abdomen crimson, the 1st two segments grey- 

 white at base, the 4th to terminal segments blue-black at base, the 

 ventral surface crimson, the two basal segments grey-white at base. 

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

 middle ; the basal inner area scarlet ; scarlet spots in end of cell 

 and below base of vein 2 ; the interspaces of terminal half scarlet. 

 Hind wing whitish suffused with scarlet. Underside of fore wing 

 scarlet, the veins and costa pale brownish. 



Hah. Sierra Leone, type f J in Coll. Rothschild. Exp. 52 

 millim. 



297 a. Balacra furva. 



Pseudapiconoma rubricincta, Hmpsn. Cat. Lep. Phal. B.M. i. p. 151 



(part.). 

 Balacra furva, Hmpsn. A. M. N. H. (8) viii. p. 394 (1911) ; Roths. Nov. 



Zool. xix. pi. xiii. f. 3. 



6 • Head and thorax white, the palpi, frons, and edges of tegulae 

 crimson, the patagia with crimson stripes, the pro-, meso-, and meta- 

 thorax with paired dorsal bars ; antennae black below ; pectus and 

 femora crimson, the tibiae and tarsi white; abdomen crimson with 

 white and fuscous segmental lines, the anal tuft white at tips, the 

 ventral surface white with crimson bands. Fore wing with the 

 basal half, inner area, and costal area buff, the last extending 

 beyond the cell down to vein 6 and with a white stripe on costa to 

 beyond middle and antemedial spot on vein 1; the rest of wing 

 hyaline with the veins buff; a hyaline spot in end of cell before tbc 

 buff discoidal patch conjoined to the buff on costal area. Hind 

 wing small with the tornus lobed ; crimson, the cilia white. 



Hub. Gold Coast (W. H. Johnston), 1 J type, Ashanti 

 (McCarthy), 1 S . Exp. 40 millim. 



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