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below apex to submedian fold ; the veius of terminal area streaked 

 with violaceous ; the interspaces of terminal area with subterminal 

 pairs of obliquely placed black points from below apex to submedian 

 fold, the lowest pair not placed obliquely. Hind wing orange- 

 yellow with blue-black terminal baud, broad at cost a and narrowing 

 to a point at vein 1, its inner edge evenly curved, a white patch on it 

 at apex; cilia white at tips from the apical patch to vein 1, Under- 

 side of fore wing orange-yellow to middle, its outer edge excurvtd 

 and sinuous, the costal edge and rest of wing black-brown suffused 

 with blue. 



Hah. iS. Nigeria, Old Calabar {Rutherford), 1 $ ; Camekoons ; 

 Congo ; Angola, Cabinda (Monteiro), 1 $ type yloriosa. Exj_), 

 76 millim. 



Larva Auriv. Ark. f. Zool. ii. 4, p. 36 (1904). 



Uniform bright yellow, almost sulphur-yellow ; upperside of head 

 dark ; warts small with very long whitish hairs ; prokgs all present. 



Fupa bright brown in a thick tough downy cocoon, 



*6634. Eligma malagassica. (Plate CLXXXTII. fig. 25.) 



Eligma malagassica, Koths. Nov. Zool, iii, p, 57 (1896), 



$ . Head and thorax grey-white tinged with brown ; palpi black, 

 the 2nd joint irrorated with white, the 3rd streaked with white; 

 basal joint of antennae and base of shaft ringed with black ; tegulae, 

 pro- and metathorax with paired black spots ; fore tibiae with three 

 black spots, the mid tibiae with one spot ; pectus and hind legs 

 orange ; tarsi grey, black at base ; abdomen orange with dorsal and 

 lateral series of small black spots. Fore wing violaceous white ; 

 the costal area olive-brown from near base to near apex, defined by 

 sulphur-yellow below except towards apex, extending at middle to 

 discal fold and with its lower and outer edges dentate ; the inner and 

 terminal areas suflfused with purplish brown, extending to the cell 

 except at middle ; five black points at base ; subbasal black striae below 

 costa and cell and a small spot in cell ; a waved antemedial black line 

 from cell to inner margin ; a medial whitish line from submedian 

 fold to above inner margin, angled inwards at vein 1 ; postmedial 

 line black, arising at discul fold, interrupted, curved downwards 

 and retracted to lower angle of cell below which it is double for a 

 short distance, then erect and sinuous ; a waved whitish subterminal 

 line from below costa to above inner margin, with small brown spots 

 before it at middle, double from vein 2 to submedian fold ; a dentate 

 black line slightly defined on inner side by white before tcrmen from 

 below costa to vein 1. Hind wing orange ; a terminal brown band 

 tinged with purplish, broad at costa and narrowing to a point at 

 vein 2 where it terminates. Underside of fore wing orange, the 

 costal edge and terminal area brown with a purplish tinge, the 

 brown area ending at vein 1 and with irregular inner edge. 



Hab. Madagascar, Morondava, type t $ in Coll. Eothschild. 

 Exji. 60 millim. 



