492 AKCTIAD^. 



orange-yellow to fulvous orange, the discocellulars often darker, and 

 often with a darker terminal band. 



Hah. Br. E. Africa, Athi, Thika-Shika, Karaluki {Gregory), 2 c? , 

 1 2, Machakos {Grawshay), 1 c?, 5 $, Moani (Betton), 1 cJ , 

 Kilimanjaro (Hannington), 2 2 j N^atal (Gueinzius), 1 $ type, 

 Malvern (Marshall), 1 (S ; Aden (Chevalier), 1 (S ; Nilgieis 

 {Lindsay), 1 $ type parvipuncta ; Coimbatore ( ]^aZ7ioi*s^), 1 <S , 

 1 $ . Exp. 32-40 millim. 



Genus HAPLOA. 



Type. 

 Haploa, Hiibn. Yerz. p. 182 (1827) clymene. 



Proboscis fully developed; palpi porrect to well beyond frons, which is 

 rounded ; antennee of male with cilia and bristles ; build slender ; scaling 

 smooth ; tibice with the spurs moderate. Fore wing with vein 3 from near 

 angle of cell ; 5 from above angle ; 6 from upper angle or shortly stalked with 

 7 ; 9 from 10 anastomosing with 8 to form the areole ; 11 free. Hind wing 

 with veins 3, 4 from angle of cell ; 5 from above angle ; 6, 7 stalked ; 8 from 

 before middle of cell. 



A. Hind wing orange. 



a. Tegulse white clymene, 



b. Tegulae orange colona. 



B. Hind wing white. 



a. Fore wing with dark markings. 



a^. Fore wing with the oblique band from below apex 



not angled inwards below end of cell lecontei. 



h^. Fore wing with the oblique band from below apex 

 angled inwards below end of cell. 

 a^. Fore wing without antemedial band. 



a^. Fore wing with the discoidal band only joining 



the angled band contigua. 



W. Fore wing with more or less complete oblique 



band from middle of costal to the angled band \Tever8a. 



as well as the discoidal band fulvicosta, ab. 



h"^. Fore wing with more or less developed antemedial 



band , confusa, 



b. Foi'e wing wholly white. 



d^. Wings thickly scaled ; size about 60 millim lecontei ab. & 



fulvicosta. 

 b^. Wings thinly scaled ; size about 35 millim vestalis. 



2099. Haploa clymene. 



Phalana clymene, Browu, 111. Zool. p. 96, pi. 38 (1776) ; Kirby, Oat. Het. 



p. 252. 

 Bombyx interrwptomarqinata, Beauv. Ins. Afr. Amer. p. 263, pi. 25. ff. 5, 



6 (1824) ; Stretch, Zjg. & Bomb. N. Am. p. 66, pi. 2. f 19 ; Smith, Proc. 



U.S. Nat. Mus. X. p. 342, pi. 14. f. 1. 

 Hypercompa comma, Wlk. iii. 652 (1855). 



Head and thorax yellowish white ; palpi black, the 1st joint 

 orange ; lower part of frons and vertex of head orange ; antennae 

 black ; tegulae and vertex of thorax with a broad black -brown 

 stripe; pectus, legs, and abdomen orange, fore and mid tibiae 

 and tarsi striped with black-brown ; abdomen with dorsal black- 



