342 AECTIAD^. 



just beyond upper angle of cell, reduced to spots towards its base 

 and expanding towards apex. Hind wing orange-yellow. 

 Hah. Sierra Leone (Foxcroft), 1 $ type. Exp, 40 millim. 



1863. Estigmene simnlans. (Plate XLVII. fig. 27.) 



Ejpilacydes simulans, Butl. Cist. Ent. ii. p. 27 (1875) ; Kirby, Cat. Het 

 'p. 241. 



S . Oebreous ; palpi and antennae black ; frons brown ; neck with 

 orange ring ; thorax with black stripe on dorsum ; legs fuscous, 

 the femora orange above ; abdomen orange above, with dorsal and 

 lateral series of black spots. Fore wing with black stripe on median 

 nervure, extending to just beyond angle of cell and somewhat dilated 

 at extremity. Hind wing ochreous white. 



Hah. Peenando Po {L. Fraser), 1 d type. Exp. 40 millim. 



Subsp. 1. Pore wing with the fascia extending to nearer termen 

 and forking on veins 3, 4, a black point at upper angle of cell and a 

 short streak above vein 7. 



Hah. Up. Egypt, White Nile (Dunn), 2 S . 



1864. Estigmene linea. (Plate XLYII. fig. 2.) 



Spilosoma linea, Wlk. iii. 671 (1855) ; Kirby, Cat. Het. p. 910. 

 Binlosama dorsalis, Wlk. iii. 671 (1855). 



Spilosoma truncatum, Wlk. vii. 1781 (1856) ; Kirby, Cat. Het. p. 910. 

 Spilosoma strigatttm, Wllgrn. Wien. ent. Mon. iv. p. 161 (1860). 

 Lacides lineata, Butl. Cist. Ent. ii. p. 27 (1875). 



Head and thorax brownish ochreous ; palpi, antennae, and stripes 

 on patagia and thorax black ; femora orange above ; tibiae and tarsi 

 blackish : abdomen orange above, with dorsal series of black spots 

 and lateral and sublateral series of points, the ventral surface 

 ochreous. Pore wing ochreous, with fuscous black fasciae on median 

 nervure, base of vein 2, on veins 3, 4 to near termen, on middle of 

 vein 6, and on vein 1 from base to near termen, often more or less 

 obsolete except the fascia on median nervure. Hind wing orange- 

 yellow, the terminal half often brownish. 



Ab. 1. truncata. Head, thorax, fore wing, and terminal half of 

 hind wing suffused with fuscous brown. 



Hah. Natal, Estcourt {Hutcliinson')^ 2 S , Karkloof (Marshall)^ 

 1 S , Durban (BoivJcer, Gueinzius), 1 05^ , 1 $ ; C Colony {Drege, 

 Dr. A. Smith), 3 c? , 2 $ , type and types dorsalis and truncatum^ 

 Transkei (Miss F. Barrett), 10 c? , 2 $ . Exp., ^ 42, 2 44 millim. 



Subsp. 1. Pore wing w4th the black streaks very broad; hind 

 wing with the basal half whitish, the terminal half brownish; 

 female with veins 3, 4 streaked with black. 



Hah. Be. E. Afeica, Kikuyu, Nairobi {Crawshay), 1 (^,1 $ . 



1865. Estigmene quadriramosa. (Plate XLYII. fig. 2Q.) 



Euprepia quadriramosa, Koll. Hiigel's Kashmir, iv. (2) p. 468 (1844) ; 

 Hmpsn. Moths Ind. ii. p. 21 ; Kirby, Cat. Het. p. 243. 



White ; palpi, lower part of frons, branches of antennae, spots om 



