HELIOPHISMA. 



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vein 1, its outer edge slightly waved ; the terminal area suffused 

 with fulvous below vein 3 ; the underside yellow suffused and 

 irrorated with brown except on inner area, a blackish discoidal 

 point, curved brown postmedial line from costa to vein 2, diffused 

 subterminal shade, and series of blackish points before termcn. 

 Hah. Br. E. Africa, Pemba I., 1 S tjp^- E.rp. 56 millim. 



7589. Heliophisma croceipennis. 



Ophisvia croceipennis, Wlk. xiv. 1377 (1857). 



Ophisma varians, Mab. Ann. Soc. Ent. Fr. 1897, p. 224. 



Head and thorax orange-yellow ; palpi, antennae, fore legs and 

 the tarsi brown ; abdomen yellow, the ventral siirface tinged with 

 brown. Fore wing orange-yellow irrorated with red-brown ; 

 subbasal line red-brown, somewhat oblique, from costa to submedian 

 fold ; antemedial line red-brown, oblique; reniform small, defined 

 by red-brown ; medial line oblique, red-brown ; postmedial line 

 oblique to vein 6, then slightly incurved and minutely waved ; 



Fig. 109. — Heliophisma croceipennis, ^ . \. 



subterminal line red-brown, oblique, slightly sinuous, a series of 

 brown points just before termen ; cilia red-brown, whitish at tips 

 except towards tornus. Hind wing yellow ; a wedge-shaped black 

 postmedial patch between veins 6 and 2 ; blackish points before 

 termen between veins 5 and 2 ; cilia red-brown. Underside 

 yellow, the costa and termen of fore wing and the hind wing 

 tinged with brown, the latter with faint curved medial and tAvo 

 postmedial lines. 



Ab. 1 varians. Fore wing with blackish spots before the 



