TERACOTOXA. 471 



2068. Teracotona submacula. 



VirMa submacula, Wlk. ii. 472 (1855) ; Kirby, Cat. Het. p. 244. 



Spilosoma obscuricm, Wlk. vii. 109(J (1856). 



Cyenia natalica, Moschl. Stett. ent. Zeit. xxxiii. p. 356 (1872) ; Kirbj, 



Cat.. Het. p. 908. 

 Estigmcne sirigiosa, Moschl. Stett. ent. Zeit. xxxiii. p. 355 (1872); Kirby, 



Cat. Het. p. 277. 

 Mai-rom/x debilLs Feld. Keis. Nov. pi. 100. f. 22 (1874) ; Kirby, Cat. Het. 



p. 243. 

 , Teracotona roseata, Butl. P. Z. S. 1878, p. 382 ; Kirby, Cat. Het. p. 244. 



d . Head and thorax brown and grey ; palpi scarlet at base, black 

 at tips ; shoulders and patagia with black points ; femora scarlet 

 above ; the tarsi ringed with black ; abdomen orange, tinged with 

 scarlet at base, a subdorsal series of black patches and lateral and 

 sublateral series of points. Fore wing whitish, strongly irrorated 

 with brown ; a more or less developed black discoidal spot. Hind 

 wing white, suffused with brown ; a black discoidal spot ; the inner 

 area suffused with scarlet. Underside of fore wing with scarlet 

 fascia in cell. 



2 . Hind wing wholly suffused with scarlet. 



Ab. 1. ohscura. Fore wing with more or less developed medial and 

 postmedial diffused brown bands. 



Hah. Damakaland ; JSTatal (Gueinzius, GoocJi), 6 c? , 1 ?, type 

 and types obscurum and roseata; C. Colony, Grahamstown. Exp.y 

 c? 48, 2 -58 millim. 



2069. Teracotona subterminata, n. sp. (Plate L. fig. 16.) 



2 . Head and thorax grey-brown ; palpi with band on 2nd joint, 

 and the 3rd joint black ; antennae black ; neck with scarlet ring ; 

 shoulders and patagia with black spots ; femora crimson above and 

 with black bands at extremities ; abdomen orange, scarlet towards 

 base, with subdorsal series of black patches and lateral series of spots. 

 Fore wing reddish brown, thickly striated with dark brown ; 

 traces of a dark postmedial line excurved between veins 5 and 

 3 ; a pale-edged subterminal black spot above vein 5, and points 

 below vein 2 and on each side of vein 1. Hind wing scarlet, more 

 orange towards termen ; a black discoidal lunule, and subterminal 

 spots on each side of veins 5, 2, and 1. Underside with crimson 

 suffusion in cell of fore wing and beyond its upper angle and on 

 costal area of hind wing. 



(S . Head, thorax, and fore wing darker, the last with the subter- 

 minal spots almost obsolete ; hind wing white, the costal area 

 slightly tinged with crimson. 



Hab. Be. E. Africa, Athi-ya-Mawe (Betton), 1 2 type, Eb. Urru, 

 2 (S . Eojj). 14 millim. 



