HEUOPHISMA. 465 



7591. Heliophisina clugi. (Plate CCXVI. fig. 4.) 



Ophiusa. Mugii, Boisd. Faun. Ent.. Madag., Lep. p. 103 (1833). 

 Ophisma rimdaris, Btitl. A. M. N. H. (4) xvi. p. 407 (1875). 



Head and thorax orange ; palpi, tibiae, and tarsi brown irrorated 

 with white ; abdomen orange-yellow, the ventral surface rufous 

 irrorated with white. Pore wing orange suffused and irrorated 

 with rufous, the subterminal area with a slight silvery purple 

 gloss ; subbasal line rufous, curved, from eosta to submedian fold ; 

 antemedial line rufous, double, oblique, waved, the inner line 

 obsolete on costal half ; a rufous point in middle of cell ; reniform 

 rather small, defined by rufous ; medial line rufous, double, dentate, 

 excurved to beyond lower angle of cell, then incurved ; post- 

 medial line double, the outer line indistinct, dentate, oblique to 

 vein 6, then inwardly oblique ; an indistinct, double, waved 

 diffused subterminal line ; a series of dark points just before 

 termen ; cilia rufous at base, white at tips except at apex and 

 towards tornus. Hind wing orange-yellow ; a wedge-shaped 

 black postmedial patch between veins 6 and 2 continued as a faint 

 oblique line to vein 1 ; the termen rufous at middle with a series of 

 black points before it ; cilia at middle rufous with white tips. 

 Underside with the costal and terminal areas of fore wing and the 

 hind wing except inner area tinged with purple-brown and irrorated 

 with white ; fore wing with discoidal spot, minutely waved post- 

 medial line except on inner area, and series of points before termen 

 towards apex ; hind wing with discoidal point, two minutely 

 waved curved postmedial lines except on inner area, and series 

 of points before termen. 



Ab. 1. Fore wing with the lines maculate and blackish, tho 

 reniform filled in with black, an obli(j[ue maculate black streak 

 from apex to the subterminal line. 



Ab. 2, rivularis. Similar, but head, thorax, and fore wing 

 yellower; hind wing with slightly waved edges to the postmedial 

 patch. 



fTah. Sierra Leone {Morgan), 1 c5" , 2 $ , Bishop's Court {Smith), 

 1 cJ ; Gold Coast, Ashanti, Kumasi ( Whiteside), 1 c? , 1 2 , Obuassi 

 {Graham), 1 9 ; S. Nigeria, Lagos, Ebute Meta {Boag), 1 $ , Old 

 Calabar {Cochburn, Crompton), 2$, Uesha {ffumfrei/), 4 cf , 1$; 

 Congo {Curro7-), 1 c^ ty^e rivularis; Angola, Ambriz {Monteiro), 

 Ig ; Madagascae, Foret d'Ambre {Meade- Waldo), 1$; Bourbon. 

 Exp. 60-70 millim. 



7592. HeliopMsma xanthoptera. 



Ophiusa xanthoptera, Hmpsn. P. Z. S. 1910, p. 418, pi. xxxvi. f. 22. 



Head and thorax orange ; palpi and fore and mid tibiae brown 

 irrorated with white ; tarsi brownish ; abdomen pale yellow. 

 Fore wing orange, the costal edge reddish brown ; subbasal line 

 represented by a red-brown point below costa and fuscous spot 

 in cell ; antemedial line red-brown, minutely waved, oblique to 



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