KHODOGISTRIA. 501 



antennae brown, the 1st joint crimson ; tegulae with pair of black 

 points and edged with crimson ; patagia, pro- meso- and metathorax 

 with paired black spots ; coxae and femora above crimson ; abdomen. 



Fig, 224. — Rhodogastria rubripes, (^ . j. 



orange above, two lateral series of black spots ; wings semihyaline ; 

 fore wing with subbasal black point on median nervure ; hind wing 

 of male with the fringe of hair orango-fulvous. 



Ab. 1. Abdomen with the 1st and last three segments dorsally 

 white. — Thursday I. 



Ilab. Thursday I. (MatJieiu), 1 J ; N. Australia, Pt. Darwin 

 (J. J. Walker), 1 J , 1 $ ; Queensland, C. York {Elsey)^ 2 $ type. 

 E.VJ). 56-60 millim. 



2112. Rhodogastria brunnea, n. sp. (Plate L. fig. 5.) 



c? . Head brownish yellow, with black spots at sides of joints of 

 palpus, above frons, and on vertex of head; thorax brown, the tegulae, 

 shoulders, patagia, pro- meso- and metathorax with black spots ; 

 pectus and base of legs yellowish, the fore coxae with black spots ; 

 abdomen orange, with two lateral series of black spots, the ventral 

 surface yellowish. Pore wing brown ; the disk somewhat hyaline ; 

 the discocellulars darker, with conjoined hyaline white patches 

 beyond them above veins 4, 5, 6. Hind wing brown ; the inner 

 area tinged with orange ; a hyaline fascia in and beyond upper 

 part of cell. 



Ilab. R. Niger, Sapele (F. W. Sampson), 1 (S type. Exjp, 

 56 millim. 



*2113. Rhodogastria roseibarba. (Plate L. fig. 9.) 



Rhodogastria roseibarba, Druce, A. M. N. H. (7) vii. p. 74 (1901). 



S . Head and thorax pale grey-brown ; palpi crimson, with black 

 spots on the joints at sides ; antennae dull crimson ; frons, vertex 

 of head, tegulae, patagia, pro- meso- and metathorax with black 

 spots ; legs crimson and pale brown ; abdomen ochreous whitish, 

 the 1st and last two segments dorsally pale crimson, lateral and 

 sublateral series of black points. Pore wing pale brown, with 

 black point at base of costa and two below median nervure; a 

 hyaline patch in cell ; the interspaces beyond and below the cell 

 hyaline from before middle to towards termen and with sinuous 



