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the (shortish-moderate) third joint ; green. Vertex white ; occiput 

 narrowly green. Antennal shaft white ; pectinations short. Collar, 

 thorax and base of abdomen above green, otherwise mixed with white ; 

 the abdomen on the first segments with slight ridges. Fore leg 

 reddish on upper and inner side. 



Fore wing slightly narrower than in menadiara, otherwise similar ; 

 of the same yellowish olive-green ; SC 1 free, SC 2 arising much before 

 SC 5 ; costal edge whitish-buff; lines indicated by small white dots on 

 the veins, the antemedian almost obsolete except on SM 2 , the post- 

 median about 2' 5 mm. from termen, with very slight proximal curve 

 behind middle ; cell-dot barely indicated in darker-green ; fringe green 

 with whitish tips. Hind wing with termen slightly more bent in 

 middle than in menadiara ; antemedian line obsolete ; postmedian 

 more incurved in posterior part than on fore wing, dark-green cell-spot 

 less obsolete ; fringe as on fore wing. 



Underside whitish-green, greenest in costal half of fore wing and 

 narrowly at distal margins ; costal edge and fringes nearly as above. 



Tunis : Gafsa, received from Staudinger and Bang-Haas. 



Distinguished from menadiara by the characters noted above and 

 by the shorter antennal pectination (2 against 3). 



Subfamily Sterrhinae. 

 3. Rhodostrophia erythema sp. nov. 

 ? , 32 mm. 



Head whitish-buff, irrorated, especially on sides of face and on vertex, 

 with vinaceous. Palpus browner. Body pale buff, thorax vinaceous 

 above. 



Fore wing less produced apically than in praecisaria Stgr. (shaped 

 more as in badiaria Frr.), termen very straight; fawn colour with a 

 very decided tinge of vinaceous ; cell-spot black, elongate and fairly 

 thick ; lines — as also a very fine irroration which is scarcely visible 

 without the lens — smoky with a slight olivaceous tinge, all (especially 

 the median) strengthened at costa ; antemedian at two-thirds the dis- 

 tance between base and DC, with outward angles at both folds, that at 

 the submedian strong ; median rather near the cell-spot, being a little 

 inclined to curve inwards at costal end, posteriorly nearly as in prae- 

 cisaria, postmedian also less oblique than termen, retracted a little from 

 SC 5 to the costal thickening, otherwise much as in praecisaria ; terminal 

 present but fine and not very strong. Hind wing rounded ; costal area 



