ILEMA. 499 



Fore wing uniform glossy white with a faint yellowish tinge. Hind 

 wing ochreous white. Underside of fore wing pale reddish ochreous. 

 Hah. Seychelles, Mane {Fryer), 7 6 , 3 $ type. Exp. 30 

 millim. 



322 a. Ilema proleuca, n. sp. (Plate XXVII. fig. 15.) 



<$ . Head and tegular fulvous yellow ; antenna?, thorax, and 

 abdomen reddish brown tinged with grey ; pectus, legs, ventral 

 surface of abdomen, and anal tuft fulvous yellow. Fore wing grey- 

 brown with broad whitish fascia on costal area, the costal edge 

 brownish. Hind wing yellow. Underside of fore wing with the 

 costal and inner areas yellow. 



Sab. Gold Coast, Aburi {Armstrong), 1 $ type. Exp. 24 

 millim. 



322 b. Ilema sanguicosta. (Plate XXVII. fig. 16.) 



Ilema sanguicosta, Hmpsn. A. M. N. H. (7) viii. p. 181 (1901). 

 Eilema sanguicosta, var. nyassana, Strand, Arch. Naturg-. lxxviii. 7, 

 p. ISO (1912). 



6 . Head and teguhe scarlet ; palpi with the 3rd joint fuscous ; 

 antenna' ochreous, black at extremity; thorax brown with scarlet 

 patch on metathorax ; legs scarlet with brown stripes above and the 

 tarsi brown ; abdomen brown with the last two segments and 

 ventral surface orange. Fore wing fuscous brown ; the costal edge 

 scarlet with a yellowish fascia below it expanding on apical area ; 

 cilia yellow. Hind wing pale yellow, the costal half fuscous brown 

 leaving the termen yellow. 



$ . Abdomen pale brownish instead of fuscous brown ; hind wing 

 wholly yellow. 



Fore wing with vein G from angle of cell, 9 from 10 anasto- 

 mosing with S to form the areole, 11 anastomosing with 12. 



Hab. Be. F. Afkica, Uganda Ry., Mile 478 {Betton), 2 <5 

 type; G-eem. F. Africa, L. Nvasa ; Masiiojsalaisd, Salisbury 

 (Marshall), 1 $ . Exp. <S 40, $ 36 millim. 



*324a. Ilema taivana. (Plate XXVII. fig. 17.) 



Ilema tain-ana, Wileman, Entom. xliii. p. 222 (1910). 



c? . Head and teguhe orange, the latter witli fuscous brown tips ; 

 antennae brown; thorax fuscous brown; pectus, and legs brown; 

 abdomen grey-brown. Fore wing fuscous brown ; the costal rd^- 

 orange, black towards base, with a creamy white fascia below it. 

 Hind wing pale brown, the inner half whitish brown. 



Sab. Foemosa, Rantaizan {Wileman), type f 6 in Coll. 

 Wileman. l£xp. 34 millim. 



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