^28 KOCTUIDiE. 



bluish wliite, retracted to lower angle of cell, then sinuous to inner 

 margin, some violaceous white suffusion with small brown spots on 

 it beyond the postmedial line from costa to submedian fold ; a sub- 

 termmal series of pairs of obliquely-placed black spots in the inter- 

 spaces from below costa to vein 2, then single spots. Hind wing 

 orange-yellow; a black terminal band, broad at costa and narrowing 

 to a point at vein 1, its inner edge evenly curved ; a white apical 

 patch. Underside of fore wing with the basal half orange-yellow, 

 the costa and terminal half black tinged with violaceous grey, a 

 short white streak in discal fold beyond the cell. 



Bab. Cameroons, 2 5 , liibundi ; Uganda {Scoit-EU'wi), 1 $ ; 

 J3k. C. Afetca, Nyasa {Sharpe), 1 J • ^>P- 70-80 millim. 



Larva. Auriv. Ark. f. Zool. ii. 4, p. 38. f. 29 (1904). 



Eright yellow with black bands at middle of segments, the 

 thoracic somites with the bands confined to dorsal area and with 

 black spots above the legs ; head black ; the warts with long 

 blackish hair. 



Ftuxi bright brown in a thick tough downy cocoon. 



6633. Eligma hypsoides. (Plate CLXXXIII. fig. 5.) 



Surhia hi/psoides, Wlk. Proe. N. II. Soc. Glasgow, i. p. 333 (1869) ; Kirby, 



Celt. Lep. Het. pp. 383, 917. 

 Panglimagloriosa, Eiitl. Trans. Eut. Sue. 1875, p. 325 ; Auriv. Ent. Tidskr. 



xii. p. 228, pi. 1. f. 2. 



$ . Head and thorax grey-brown wilh a purplish tinge ; palpi 



black, the 1st joint with white ring at extremity, the 2nd with 



white irroration and point at tips, the 3rd with white streak and 



tip ; lower part of frons with black spot ; black spots at base of 



antennae ; tegulse with pair of dorsal spots near base and spots ou 



outer edge ; the patagia with black spots at middle and extremities ; 



the mesothorax with pair of black spots and the metathorax. with 



small lateral tufts of black hair and edged with black behind ; pectus 



orange-yellow ; fore legs grey, the tibiae with two black spots, the 



tarsi with black bands at base and near extremity, the mid and 



hind tibiae grey streaked with yellow, the mid tibiae with black spot, 



the tarsi grey-brown ; abdomen orange-yellow, the basal crest 



grey-brown and the 2nd black, the following segments with small 



dorsal and lateral black spots. Fore wing with the costal area 



slate-brown extending at middle to median nervure and narrowing 



to points at base and apex, defined below by sulphur-yellow to 



below apex, angled at lower angle of cell and produced to short 



streaks on the veins beyond the cell, with a violaceous white fascia 



below it on median area, the rest of wing violaceous brown ; three 



black point.s at base followed by a curved series of three points ; an 



oblique black streak from costa defining the upper edge of the base of 



the yellow fascia ; a waved subbasal black line from median nervure 



to inner margin and a waved line from near extremity of median 



nervure to inner margin ; two obliquely placed black points beyond 



lower angle of cell ; some violaceous white reticulated marks beyond 



the yellow fascia and before and beyond an oblique line extending from 



