﻿()enus 
  Xanthospiiopteryx. 
  283 
  

  

  Mr. 
  Butler 
  considers 
  this 
  species 
  to 
  be 
  allied 
  to 
  

   Eusemia 
  contigua, 
  Walk., 
  but 
  it 
  appears 
  to 
  me 
  to 
  have 
  

   more 
  relationship 
  to 
  Metagarista 
  or 
  Mgocera. 
  The 
  

   peculiar 
  dull 
  red 
  submarginal 
  band 
  on 
  the 
  front 
  wings 
  is 
  

   found 
  in 
  no 
  other 
  species 
  likely 
  to 
  be 
  referred 
  to 
  Xantho- 
  

   spilopteryx. 
  

  

  3. 
  Xanthospilopteryx 
  (?) 
  Poggei, 
  Dew. 
  

  

  Eusemia 
  Poggei, 
  Dewitz, 
  Mitth. 
  Miinch. 
  Ent. 
  Ver., 
  

   iii., 
  p. 
  31, 
  pi. 
  ii., 
  f. 
  3 
  (1879). 
  

  

  Exp. 
  2f 
  in. 
  

  

  Eed, 
  with 
  broad 
  black 
  borders. 
  Fore 
  wings 
  with 
  a 
  long 
  black 
  

   spot 
  filled 
  up 
  with 
  leaden, 
  closing 
  the 
  cell 
  ; 
  costa 
  and 
  inner 
  margin 
  

   narrowly 
  bordered 
  with 
  black 
  ; 
  hind 
  margin 
  with 
  4 
  or 
  6 
  white 
  

   spots 
  on 
  the 
  upper 
  part, 
  and 
  one 
  at 
  the 
  hinder 
  angle, 
  above 
  which 
  

   the 
  border 
  is 
  deeply 
  indented 
  by 
  the 
  ground 
  colour, 
  and 
  then 
  runs 
  

   up 
  into 
  it 
  still 
  more 
  sharply. 
  Hind 
  wings 
  with 
  the 
  fringes 
  spotted 
  

   with 
  white 
  (inner 
  margin 
  yellow 
  in 
  the 
  figure) 
  ; 
  body 
  black, 
  spotted 
  

   with 
  white 
  ; 
  abdomen 
  with 
  the 
  basal 
  two 
  -thirds 
  yellow 
  in 
  the 
  

   middle 
  above. 
  

  

  Hab. 
  Guinea. 
  

  

  Eecognisable 
  at 
  once 
  from 
  the 
  red 
  colour 
  extending 
  

   over 
  the 
  greater 
  part 
  of 
  the 
  wings, 
  as 
  in 
  the 
  similarly- 
  

   coloured 
  African 
  genera 
  Phc^gorista, 
  Aletis, 
  &c. 
  The 
  

   colour 
  of 
  the 
  body 
  may 
  indicate 
  some 
  affinity 
  to 
  X. 
  (.^) 
  

   tigrina. 
  (While 
  actually 
  passing 
  these 
  pages 
  for 
  press, 
  

  

  1 
  have 
  seen 
  a 
  specimen 
  of 
  a 
  new 
  species 
  from 
  East 
  

   Africa, 
  allied 
  to 
  X. 
  Poggei). 
  

  

  4. 
  Xantliospilopteryx 
  pallida, 
  Walk. 
  

  

  Eusemia 
  pallida. 
  Walk., 
  Cat. 
  Lep. 
  Het. 
  B. 
  M., 
  i., 
  p. 
  51, 
  

   n. 
  9 
  (1854) 
  ; 
  Butl., 
  111. 
  Lep. 
  Het. 
  B. 
  M., 
  i., 
  p. 
  10, 
  

  

  pi. 
  v., 
  f. 
  3 
  (1877). 
  

  

  Exp. 
  2A— 
  2i 
  in. 
  

  

  Fore 
  wings 
  black, 
  with 
  markings 
  of 
  a 
  somewhat 
  yellowish 
  white. 
  

   Hind 
  wings 
  red, 
  with 
  black 
  borders. 
  Apices 
  pure 
  white. 
  Spots 
  1, 
  

   2, 
  3, 
  4, 
  6 
  placed 
  as 
  usual 
  ; 
  spot 
  5 
  broken 
  into 
  4 
  small 
  spots, 
  placed 
  

  

  2 
  together 
  near 
  the 
  costa, 
  and 
  2 
  together 
  opposite 
  the 
  middle 
  of 
  

   the 
  hind 
  margin 
  ; 
  body 
  black, 
  abdomen 
  ringed 
  with 
  yellow. 
  

  

  Hah. 
  Old 
  Calabar 
  ; 
  Cameroons. 
  B. 
  M. 
  

  

  In 
  the 
  type 
  the 
  white 
  and 
  red 
  markings 
  have 
  faded 
  to 
  

   buff, 
  but 
  the 
  former 
  are 
  still 
  distinctly 
  white 
  on 
  the 
  

   under 
  surface. 
  

  

  