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surface purplish red. Fore wing purplish red slightly irrorated with 

 white ; orbicular and reniform pale ochreous surrounded by white 

 points, the former round, the latter luuulate ; a double curved post- 

 medial series of white points and a series just before termen. 

 Hind wing white, the cilia tinged with pink at apex ; the underside 

 with the costal area suffused with pink, a fine pinkish terminal 

 line. 



Hah. Mashontaland, Salisbury (Marshall), 1 S type ; Transvaal, 

 White R. {Goolce), 1 6 . Exy, 28 millim. 



4101. Ethiopica cupricolora. (Plate CXXXIII. fig. 5.) 



Caraclrina ctipricolor, Brmpsn. Ann. S. Afr. Mus. ii. p. 299 (1902). 



c? . Head and thorax purplish red, the scales slightly tipped with 

 white, the vertex of head and antennae whitish ; pectus and legs 

 rufous mixed with whitish, the tarsi slightly ringed with white ; 

 abdomen white tinged with rufous. Fore wing rufous with a 

 cupreous tinge, the costal area tinged with purplish pink, the veins 

 brownish, the interspaces of terminal area with slight whitish 

 streaks ; traces of a brown antemedial line, oblique from costa to 

 submedian fold and angled inwards on vein 1 ; orbicular a small 

 round white spot surrounded by four white points ; reniform white 

 surrounded by white points ; an indistinct brown postmedial line 

 excurved from costa to vein 4, then oblique: a terminal series of 

 minute white points. Hind wing white, the veins of terminal area 

 and termen faintly tinged with ochreous ; the underside with the 

 costal area tinged with purplish red. 



Hah. Mozambique, Delagoa I3ay {Mrs. Monteiro), 1 (S type. 

 Ex]). 22 millim. 



4102. Ethiopica polyastra, n. sp. (Plate CXXXIII. fig. 6.) 



Head and thorax cupreous brown slightly mixed with greyish ; 

 abdomen pale grey-brown. Fore wing cupreous brown ; basal 

 whitish points below costa and cell and subbasal points in and 

 below cell with another beyond them in cell; traces of a waved 

 antemedial line, angled inwards on vein 1 and with whitish points 

 on costa, vein 1, and inner margin ; orbicular a round yellowish 

 white spot slightly defined by blackish and with rufous point in 

 centre ; reniform with the upper part rufous, the lower yellowish 

 white defined by rufous, constricted at middle and surrounded by 

 yellowish-white points except above ; traces of a postmedial line 

 with whitish point at costa, bent outwards below costa, then 

 dentate and produced to whitish points on the veins, oblique below 

 vein 4 and with some whitish points beyond it on costa ; some 

 subterminal whitish points between costa and vein 5 and a spot 

 above tornus ; a series of small white spots just before termen. 



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