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Sect. I. {Canopus) Male with a tuft of hair between antennae rising 

 above vertex of head ; forewing with the base of costa 

 dilated into a large vesicle. 



(1) Ehodogastria lupia, Druce, P.Z.S. 1887, p. 669 (1888). 

 Hab. Delagoa Bay; Natal (Gooch). jEJojjj. 50 mill. 



Sect. II. {Bhodogastria). Head of male without tuft of hair; forewing 

 with the costa not dilated at base. 



(2) Ehodogastria viteipennis, Blanch D'Orbigny, Diet. Hist. 



Nat. Atlas Zool. ii. Ins. Lep. pi. 13, f. 3. (1849). 

 Amblythyris radama, Mab. Bull. See. Philom. (7) iii. p. 137 



(1879). 

 Pelochyta vidua, Saalm. Lep. Mad. i. p. 150, pi. 5, f. 52 (1884), 



nee. Cram. 

 Hab. Madagascar; Natal. Exp, S' 66, ? 70 mill. 



(8) Ehodogastria astreas, Drury. 111. Exot. Ent. ii. p. 28, f. 4 

 (1773). 



Sphinx melanthus, Cram. Pap. Exot. pi. 286 B (1780). 



Chelonia madagascariensis, Boisd. Delegorgue Voy. Afr. Austr. ii. 

 p. 598 (1847). 



Amerila rhodopa, Wlk. xxxi. 305 (1864). 



Greatonotus communis, Wlk. xxxi. 283 (1864). 



Amerila vitrea, Plotz. Stett. Ent. Zeit. xli. p. 84 (1880). 



Bhodogastria fraterna, Moore, Trans. Ent. Soe., 1884, p. 356. 



Amerila bauri, Moschl. Verh. Zool. hot. Ges. Wien. xxxiii. p. 289, 

 pi. 16, f. 2 (1884). 



Hab. West Africa ; Angola ; Natal (Gooeh, Marshall) ; For- 

 mosa ; India ; Ceylon ; Burma ; Bali ; Bourn ; Aru. Exp. 

 46-74 mill. 



Genus UTETHEISA. 



Type. 



Utetheisa, Hiibn. Verz. p. 168 (1827) pulchella. 



Deiopeia, Steph. 111. Brit. Ent. Haust. ii. p. 92 



(1829) ... pulchella. 



Utetheisa pulchella, Linn. Syst. Nat. i. p. 238 (1758). 



Hab. Almost universally distributed in the Old World ; 



Mashonaland, Salisbury (Marshall) ; Transvaal (P. Kirby) ; 



Natal; Colony. ^^^9. 34-46 mill. 



