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d . Head, thorax, and abdomen orange-red, the last with traces 

 of segmental black lines and dorsal series of blue-grey spots; 

 antennae fuscous with a blue tinge except at base. Pore wing red 

 suffused with brown ; a crimson streak on subcostal nervure and 

 some crimson at base of inner margin ; crimson spots in and below 

 end of cell, beyond the cell above and below vein 6, varying much 

 in size and often with more or less developed yellow centres ; the 

 interspaces of terminal area red. Hind wing yellow tinged with 

 crimson. 



2 . Abdomen with the segmental black lines and dorsal series of 

 blue-grey spots well developed ; antennae minutely serrate. 



In one specimen veins 4, 5 of fore wing are separate instead of 

 from a point. 



Ab. 1. hcemalea: hind wing crimson. — Cameeoons, Mus. Stock- 

 holm ; W. Africa, Ogove K. and Bule Country, type f in Coll. 

 Holland. 



Hah. A.^^h.^Ti {Wesley an Mission), 1 6 type; R. Nigee, Onitsha 

 ( Wesley an Mission), 1 6 ; Cameroons ; Gaboon, type f teHacea in 

 Mus. Stockholm. E.vj:>., S 46, $ 60 millim. 



*296. Pseudapiconoma ochracea. 



Balacra ochracea, Wlk. Proc. N. H. Soc. Glasgow, i. p. 331 (1869): Kirb.y, 

 Cat. Het. p. 221. 



(S . Ochreous ; head and legs crimson ; antennas black ; tarsi 

 blackish. Fore wing with two divergent crimson fasciae from base. 

 Hah. Congo. Eocp. 50 millim. 

 This species is unknown to me. 



297. Pseudapiconoma rubricincta. (Plate VI. fig. 15.) 



Balacra rubricincta, Holland, Psyche, vi. p. 396 (1893). 



S . Head crimson ; a white band between antennas, which are 

 white above, blackish below ; thorax white with five crimson 

 bands, the patagia striped with crimson ; pectus crimson ; legs 

 striped with white ; abdomen white, with crimson bands on each 

 segment, ventral surface white with paired crimson bars except 

 towards extremity. Eore wing fulvous yellow, the costa white ; 

 a white spot below middle of cell : the area between veins 2 and 6 

 beyond the cell thinly scaled. Hind wing crimson, thinly scaled 

 towards base ; cilia of both wings white. 



Ab. 1. Fore wing pale brown ; a very worn specimen apparently 

 conspecific. — Ashanti. 



Hah. W. Africa, Bule Country, type f in Coll. Holland ; Ashanti. 

 Exp. 44 millim. 



298. Pseudapiconoma glagoessa. (Plate VI. fig. 14.) 



Balacra glagoessa, Holland, Psyche, vi. p, 396 (1893). 

 c^ . Pure white ; antennae blackish ; palpi except at tips, vertex 



