102 Mr. E. E. Austen on new 



smoke-grey, dark greyisli brown towards tip, hind margins 

 of segments lighter. IVinys : usual three rosettes each 

 consisting of about three concentric series of light marks, 

 generally alternately expanding and contracting ; rosette 

 round fork of third longitudinal vein with an upward 

 prolongation to costa, resulting in an elongate light mark 

 below latter at distal end of stigma; rosette round distal 

 extremities of basal cells abruptly truncated above by second 

 longitudinal vein, beyond which it does not extend, though 

 there is a subquadrate light mark at proximal end of stigma, 

 on and below first longitudinal vein ; light marks across 

 bases of basal, anal, and axillary cells similar to those 

 forming half of rosette round distal extremities of basal 

 cells, supposing this rosette to be bisected by a line at right 

 angles to longitudinal axis of wing ; inner ramus of broad 

 light cross-band at apex of wing much narrower than cross- 

 band itself, and really consisting of the usual sinuous apical 

 streak; it is continiious below with a -series of large light 

 blotches along hind margin of wing, at distal extremities of 

 posterior and axdlary cells ; a light mark at tip of anal cell ; 

 two proximal series of marks forming rosette round distal 

 extremities of basal cells with an extension across anal and 

 axillary cells down to hind margin ; discal cell with three 

 more or less complete light streaks across each extremity, 

 the two proximal streaks usually more or less confluent ; 

 stigma dark seal-brown, rather short but conspicuous ; alula 

 infuscated, but with a pale edge. Halter es : knob clove- 

 brown, or clove-brown above and below, stalk cream-buft'. 

 Legs : hind as well as front tibiae incrassate, hind tibiae with 

 fringe of black hair on outer side of dark portion ; narrow 

 pale band on distal half of hind tibia3 sometimes well 

 marked, sometimes scarcely visible, faiut traces of a similar 

 S{;cond band in some cases flistinguishable on front tibiaj 

 also ; ])ale "band at base of middle libite very narrow, though 

 broader than seal-brown baud following it. 



Somaliland, June 1905 (Dr. R. E. Drake-Brockmmi) : 

 three females of this species, taken in the Ogadeu country, 

 Somaliland, between the Webi Shebeli and the Web, in 

 Septendjcr 1901 (D)\ E. Brunipt), are in the Museum 

 d^Histoire Naturelle, Paris. 



Hidmatopota coronata cannot well be confused with any of 

 its African congeners at present kuown to me. While in 

 the presence of a bifurcate light mark at the tip of the wing 

 it agrees with H. decora, Walk., and H. bullutifrons, Austen, 

 the sharply defined and very complete compound rosettes 

 (not to mention other characters) are sufficient to distinguish 



