430 SIR GEORGE P. IIAMPSON on [Mar. 1, 



Speiredonia prunicolora, sp. n. (PI. XXXYII. fig. 7.) 



Femora and tibiae of male with fringes of long hair, the mid 

 tibise greatly dilated and with thick fringes of hair and scales. 



Head and thorax black brown irrorated with grey, the hinder 

 part of thorax with a purplish gloss ; palpi streaked with black 

 and ochreous ; pectus and legs ochreous white mixed with some 

 brown ; abdomen fuscous brown with paler bands on basal 

 segments, the crests with golden metallic scales, the terminal 

 segments tinged with purple. Fore wing black-brown suffused 

 with brilliant purple, slightly on terminal area, and irrorated 

 with some whitish scales ; subbasal line black defined by rufous, 

 waved, from costa to submedian fold ; antemedial line black 

 defined on each side by rufous, waved ; medial area with a rufous 

 streak below costa ; reniform rufous, its centre defined by black, 

 white points at its upper and lower extremities and a rufous 

 streak from it to postmedial line ; a sinuous black medial line 

 closely approximated below the cell to the postmedial line, which 

 is black slightly defined on each side by rufous and at costa by 

 ochreous white, oblique to vein 6, then sinuous, at vein 3 bent 

 upwards to lower edge of reniform, some whitish points beyond 

 it on costa ; subterminal line ochreous white towards costa, then 

 grey defined on each side by black suffusion, slightly angled 

 inwards below costa and excurved below vein 7 and at middle ; a 

 series of black and ochreous white spots just before termen ; a 

 fine ochreous white line at base of cilia. Hind wing dark brown 

 with some purple suffusion from origin of vein 2 to termen and 

 along terminal half of vein 1 ; two sinuous black postmedial 

 lines ; subterminal line grey defined on each side by black 

 suffusion, waved ; a series of black and ochreous white striae just 

 before termen ; a fine ochreous white line at base of cilia ; the 

 underside whitish tinged with brown except on inner area, a 

 slight discoidal bar, two crenulate black postmedial lines, a 

 dentate grey subterminal line defined on each side by fuscous, and 

 a series of black lunules before termen defined on outer side 

 by ochreous white. 



Hob. Sierra Leone (Dudgeon), 1 S type; Ashanti, Obuasi 

 (Bergman), 1 J ; N.E. Rhodesia, Chambezi valley (Weave), 

 1 5 . Exp. 40-44 mm. 



Argadesa materna Linn. Syst. Nat. ed. xii. 2. p. 840 (1766). 

 Congo, Katanga, Kambove ; N.E. Rhodesia, E. Luangwa R., 

 Bangweolo distr ; Portuguese E. Africa, S. Angoniland. 



Halastus divitiosa Wlk. Tr. N. H. Glasg. i. p. 356, pi. vii. 

 f. 11 (1873). 



Congo, Lualaba R. ; N.E. Rhodesia, Chambezi valley, Kalun- 

 gwisi distr. 



Sphingomorpha chlorea Cram. Pap. Exot. ii. pi. 104. f. C. 

 (1779). 



Congo, Katanga, Kambove; N.E. Rhodesia, E. Luangwa 



