348 :NocTUin.E. 



Hah. Congo, Katanga, Kambove {Neave), 1 $ ; Germ. E. Africa, 

 SteveiJson lid. (Deivar), 1 (f ; Br. C. Africa, Fwambo (Carson), 

 2 5, Zomba (JoJinston), 3 c? , 1 2 type, BJantyre {Neave), 1 S ; 

 Mashonaland, Salisbury (Marshall), 1 (S ,\ $ , '[^ m\dX\ {Marshall), 

 1 2 • Exp. 54-58 millira. 



7461. Speiredonia griseisigna, n. sp. (Plate CCIII. fig. 17.) 



(S . Head and tegulse chocolate-brown with some ochreous 

 tinged with scarlet on vertex of head ; palpi at base and the 2nd 

 joint in front and behind crimson ; antennae with the shaft white 

 above ; thorax ochreous tinged with rufous ; legs grey-brown, the 

 coxae and femora pale crimson ; abdomen orange tinged with 

 scarlet, the basal segments dorsally irrorated with brown. Fore 

 wing fulvous yellow tinged with flesh-colour and slightly irrorated 

 with brown, the terminal area faintly tinged with olive-brown, the 

 veins paler ; anteinedial dark points on the veins ; a narrow dis- 

 coidal lunule with its upper extremity produced, defined by blackish, 

 its centre irrorated with brown and grey, a similar figure-of-8- 

 shaped spot bL'yond lower angle of cell and a small spot below 

 vein 3; medial line purplish brown, rather diffused, excurved and 

 obsolescent beyond the cell, then oblique ; a curved postmedial 

 series of dark points on the veins ; an indistinct pale waved sub- 

 terminal line, and aeries of dark points before termen ; cilia red- 

 brown. Hind wing fulvous yellow slightly irrorated with brown, 

 the terminal area tinged with olive-brown, the costal area to near 

 apex and the inner margin pale scarlet ; a dark discoidal point, 

 oblique purple-brown medial line, postmedial series of dark points 

 on the veins, pale waved subterminal line and series of dark points 

 before termen ; cilia red-brown. Underside of both wings orange 

 suffused with scarlet ; fore wing with dark point in middle of cell 

 and small discoidal spot ; hind wing with dark discoidal point ; 

 both wings with indistinct curved red medial and postmedial lines 

 and some slight dark points before termen. 



Hah. Mashonalais^d, Umtali {Marshall), 1 S type. Exp. 56 

 mlUim. 



Sect. II. Antennse of male minutely serrate and fasciculate ; hind wing with 

 fold on inner area -on upperside containing an erectile fringe of very 

 long hair. 



Key to the 'males. 



A. Fore wing with tlie discoidal mark not indented on outer 

 side or reduced to spots. 



a. Hind wing with distinct pale subterminal line, the 



waved lines beyond it prominent and black japonica. 



b. Hind wing with the subterminal line and waved lines 



beyond it indistinct. 

 a^. Fore wing with the double waved subterminal line 

 and waved lines before termen prominent and 

 black. 



