11)10.] MOTHS FROM NORTHERN RHODESIA. 397 



Fore wing black ; whitish points at base below costa and cell ; a large 

 triangular antemeclial yellow patch extending from below costa 

 to vein 1 ; an oblique band from below middle of costa to above 

 tornus, constricted just below the cell and rather pointed at lower 

 extremity ; a broad band from below costa beyond middle to near 

 termen below vein 3. where its extremity is pointed and somewhat 

 recurved ; three obliquely placed small yellow spots across apical 

 area and a subterminal spot in submedian fold ; oblique silvery 

 blue lines in and below middle of cell and on discocellulars ; cilia 

 with a series of white spots. Hind wing scarlet with black 

 discoidal striga and terminal band slightly angled inwards at 

 vein 2 ; the cilia with series of white spots. Underside of fore 

 wing with the yellow markings tinged with scarlet ; hind wing 

 with small subapical patch of yellow scales. 



Hob. N.W. Rhodesia, Alala plateau (Weave), 1 <S type. Exp. 

 64 mm. 



Xanthospilopteryx neavi, sp. n. (PI. XXXVI. fig. 14.) 



2 . Head and thorax black ; 1st and 2nd joints of palpi, frons, 

 and back of head with white points ; guise white : tegulae, shoulders, 

 and patagia with white points; tibiae banded with orange, the 

 tibiae at base and extremity and the tarsi ringed with white ; 

 abdomen orange-yellow tinged with fuscous the extremity blackish 

 above, a lateral series of black points. Fore wing black ; some 

 small whitish spots below base of costa and two subbasal spots 

 below the cell : a triangular yellow antemedial spot in cell, 

 slight mark below the cell, and wedge-shaped mark above vein 1 ; 

 a broad oblique bar across end of cell, expanding at lower 

 extremity, and oblique patch below end of cell ; an oblique band 

 from below costa beyond middle to near termen at vein 3, 

 somewhat constricted at vein 5 and its inner edge excised at 

 vein 4 ; a subterminal spot above tornus ; a silvery blue striga 

 in middle of cell and some scales below the cell and on discocellulars ; 

 cilia white at apex. Hind wing crimson with black terminal 

 band somewhat angled inwards at vein 2 ; the cilia white at 

 apex ; the underside with the black extending on costa to middle. 



Hob. N.E. Rhodesia, Chinsali distr. (Weave), 1 6 type. Uxjj. 

 72 mm. 



Xanthospilopteryx jemulatrix "Westw. Oates' ' Matabeleland,' 

 p. 355 (1881). 



Congo, Katanga, Kambove. 



Xanthospilopteryx flavipennis Bartel. Verh. Ges. Wien, liii. 

 p. 121 (1903). 



Congo, Katanga, Kambove. 



Xanthospilopteryx hornimanni Druce, Ent. Mo. Mag. xvi. 

 p. 269 (1880). 



Coxgo, Katanga, Kambove. 



