502 ARCTIAD^. 



outer edge ; a blackish discoidal patch ; the apical area darker. 

 Hind wing pale brown, with the cell and interspaces below and 

 beyond it hyaline to near termen ; the fringe of hair in fold of 

 inner area pink. 



Hob. SuLTJ i Fryer), type t d* in Coll. Druce. Exp. 68 millim. 



2114. Rhodogastria luteibarba, n. sp. (Plate L. fig. 18.) 



Head and thorax brown ; palpi with black bands on the joints ; 

 basal joint of antennae, vertex of head, tegulge, shoulders, patagia 

 at base and extremity, pro- meso- and metathorax with black 

 points, tegulse pink below ; coxse and femora above pink ; abdomen 

 pink, brownish at base ; lateral and sublateral series of black spots. 

 Fore wing fuscous brown ; two black spots at base ; the cell and 

 areas below and beyond it hyaline, the outer edge of hyaline area 

 excurved between veins 5 and 3. Hind wing hyaline, the veins 

 and marginal areas fuscous brown ; the fringe on inner area of 

 male yellowish. 



Hah. !S. Nigeria, Abutshi {Neivmayi), 1 c? ? 2 $ , types. Exp. 

 46 millim. 



h. Hind wing of male without fold and tuft on inner area. 

 a^. Abdomen crimson below. 



a^. Hind wing with the medial terminal area crimson... fennia. 

 b'^. Hind wing with the whole terminal area brownish 



ochreous vidua. 



b\ Abdomen yellow below nigroapicalis. 



c^. Abdomen whitish below. 



a^. Head and thorax reddish buff vitripennis. 



b'^. Head and thorax grey-brown. 



a'K Fore wing with the basal area white followed by 



fuscous croceri. 



P. Fore wing with the basal and medial areas pale 



grey -brown astreas. 



c'^. Head, thorax, and wings white. 



a^. Fore wing greyish serica. 



b^. Fore wing pure white. 



a^. Legs crimson and white, the fore and mid tibife 



streaked with fuscous leucoptera, 



6*. Legs white with very slight crimson streaks ... albivitrea. 



2115. Rhodogastria fennia. (Plate L. fig. 20.) 



Felochyta fennia, Druce, P. Z. S. 1887, p. 669 (1886) ; Kirby, Cat. Het. 

 p. 196. 



S . Head, thorax, and base of abdomen bright red-brown ; palpi 

 red, with black spot on basal joint and bands on the other two : 

 frons and vertex of head with black spots ; antennae black ; tegulae, 

 patagia, pro- meso- and metathorax each with a pair of black spots ; 

 the rest of abdomen, pectus, and base of legs crimson ; two pairs of 

 lateral black points on each abdominal segment; fore coxae with 

 black spots ; tibiae and tarsi mostly black. Fore wing red-brown 

 with two semihyaline streaks in cell ; semihyaline patches beyond 

 the cell between bases of veins 7 to 2 and a streak below medial 

 part of cell and vein 2. Hind wing red-brown, with a hyaline 



