II. EM A. 



489 



at tips ; antennae brownish ; pectus, legs, and ventral surface of 

 abdomen ochreous white. Wings uniform chalky white. Under- 

 side of fore wing suffused wirh brown. 



$ . Nearly pure white. 



Hab. Formosa, Arizan (Wileman), 3 $. Exp. 40 millim. 

 Type t 6 , $ in Coll. Wileman. 



*285 b. Ilema pulverosa. (Plate XLI. fig. 37.) 

 Eilema pulverosa, Auriv. Ark. f. Zool. ii. 4, p. 34 (1904). 



Fore wing of male entirely clothed on upper side with rough 

 hairy scales. 



6 ■ Head and thorax orange tinged with brown ; pectus and 

 legs brownish ; abdomen brown, the extremity and ventral surface 

 yellow. Fore wing fulvous orange, the apical area slightly paler. 

 Hind wing pale orange-yellow. Underside of fore wing with 

 fuscous suffusion on basal area except at costa. 



Hab. W. Africa, Cameroons, type f J in Mus. Stockholm. 

 Exp. 22 millim. 



*285 c. Ilema triplaiola. 



Ilema triplaiola, Beth. -Baker, A. M. N. H. (8) vii. p. 535 (1911). 

 Ilema malanga, Beth.-Baker, A. M.N. H. (8) vii. p. 535 (1911). 

 Ilema vmistrigata, Beth.-Baker, A. M. N. H. (S) vii. p. 535 (1911). 

 Ilema bisticta, Beth.-Baker, A. M. N. H. (8) vii. p. 5(3G (1911). 



Fore wing of male with the medial area obliquely clothed with 

 rough androconia. 



6 ■ Head and thorax fulvous yellow; tibia? and tarsi brown in 

 front ; abdomen fulvous yellow, greyish towards base of dorsum. 



Fig. 107. — Ilema triplaiola, $ , \. 



Fore wing fulvous yellow, the androconia on medial area more rufous; 

 a blackish diseoidal spot and medial spot in submedian fold with 

 traces of a line from below costa to the upper spot and from the 

 lower spot to inner margin. Hind wing pale yellow ; the under- 

 side with the costal area tinged witli rufous. 



2 . bore wing yellower with faint rufous tinge ; the medial line 

 fuscous, entire from costa to inner margin, oblique between the 

 two spots. 



