EGTBOLIS. 



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7387. Egybolis vaillantina. 



Bomhyx vaillantina, StoU, Suppl. Cram. p. 142, pi. \\\.. f. 3 (1790); Sauud. 



Trans. Ent. Soc. (2) iv. p. 59, pi. 114. ff. 3 a-c ; Kirby, Oat. Lep, Het. 



p. 393. 

 Cahptera Jormosa, Blanch. Hist. Ins. ii. p. 376, pi. 17. f. 6 (1845). 

 Egyholis natalii, Boisd. Delegorgue Voy. Afr. Austr. ii. p. 595 (1847). 

 Egyholia vaillantiana, Angas, Kaffr. Illiistr. pi. 30. f. 19 (1849). 



Head deep orange, the back of head, thorax and abdomen black 

 shot with brilliant metallic blue ; fore tibife orange in front, the 

 mid and hind tibiae orange at extremities. Fore wing brilliant 

 metallic blue ; a broad deep orange subbasal band edged bj' black 

 lines, its inner edge sinuous, its outer edge excurved and slightly 

 incurved at vein 1 ; an elliptical orange discoidal spot with smaller 



Fig. 37. — Egyholis vaillantina, t^ . 



spot above it from costa, both edged by black ; an indistinct post- 

 medial black line arising below the costa, oblique to below vein 4, 

 then incurved, sometimes with an orange striga at inner margin 

 and rarely one beyond the cell. Hind wing black, the inner 

 margin, veins of terminal half, and the terminal area brilliant 

 metallic blue. Underside of both wings black suffused with 

 brilliant metallic blue. 



Hah. Congo, 1 $; Zanztbak (Trimen), 1 $ ; Br. E, Afrjca, 

 Pemba I. (Burtt), 1 c?, Mombasa (de la Garde), 2 $; Uganda, 

 Wadelai {Emin Pasha), 1 $ ; Gbkm. E. Africa, Dar-es-Salaam, 

 1 c? , Magila, 2 2 , Usagara Distr. (iV'eave), 2 $ ; Br. C. Africa, 

 L, Nyasa, Florence Bay (Neave), 1 c5' , 1 $ , Fort Maguire (JVeave ), 

 1 c? , 4 $ , Fort Johnstone (Neave), 1 § , Karonga Distr. (Weave), 

 1 $ , Fort Songwe {Johnston), 1 $ , Blantyre {Ambruster), 1 ^ , 

 Lr. Shire Valley {Neave), 1 § ; MozAMBiaun, Beira {Marshall), 1 § , 



