1910.] MOTHS PROM NORTHERN RHODESIA. 461 



Argina Amanda Boisd. Delegorgue's Voy. Afr. Austr. ii< p. 597 

 (1847). 



Congo, Lualaba R. ; N.E. Rhodesia, E. Luangwa distr., upper 

 Luangwa valley, Ohambezi distr., Chinsali distr., Petauke distr., 

 Fort Jameson; Portuguese E. Africa, Makanga distr. 



Callioratis bellatrix Dalm. Anal. Ent. p. 50 (1823). 

 N.E. Rhodesia, Kalungwisi valley. 



Ph^bgorista similis Wlk. Proc. Nat. Hist. Soc. Glasg. i. p 332 

 pi. 2. f. 4 (1879). 



Congo, Katanga, Kambove. 



Ph^egorista xanthosoma, sp. n. (PI. XXXIX. fig. 12.) 



5 . Palpi with the 2nd joint long, oblique, and dilated above 

 at middle, the 3rd joint upturned and very long. 



Head and thorax black-brown mixed with yellow and white ; 

 palpi yellow below towards base : fore and mid legs with the tibia? 

 and tarsi brown, hind legs with the spurs and extremities of tarsi 

 brown ; abdomen yellow with some white hair at base, a dorsal 

 black patch at base followed by a series of fuscous dorsal bars, 

 sublateral series of black bars. Fore wing black-brown with large 

 triangular white patch between subcostal nervure and vein 1 

 from base to beyond middle, its outer edge oblique ; a large 

 oblique white patch beyond the cell from vein 7 to submedian 

 fold near termen, its extremities rounded. Hind wing white 

 with terminal black band. Underside of both wings with some 

 yellowish at base. 



Sab. N.E. Rhodesia, E. Luangwa distr., Petauke (Xeave), 

 1 § type. Exp. 52 mm. 



S p h i n g i d m. 



Acherontian^e. 

 Herse convolvuli Linn. Syst. Nat. ed. x. p. 490 (1758). 

 N.E. Rhodesia, Fort Jameson. 



Acherontia atropos Linn. Syst. Nat. ed. x. p. 490 (1758). 

 N.E. Rhodesia, E. Luangwa distr. 



Ambulicin^e. 



Platysphinx stigmatica Mab. Bull. Soc. Zool. Fr. ii p 491 

 (1878). 



N.E. Rhodesia, E. Luangwa distr. 



Leucophlebia xanthopis, sp. n. (PI. XXXIX. fig. 15.) 

 S . Palpi and frons crimson-red ; head and thorax greyish 

 ochreous tinged with pink, and with the dorsum of thorax red- 

 brown in front with a slight yellow tuft on prothorax and some 



