KIIODOGASTRI.V. 503 



pafcoh in, below, and beyond cell ; the veins tinged with crimson ; 

 a crimson patch on termcn between veins 5 and 2. Underside of 

 fore wing with crimson subcostal streak ; hind wing crimson, with 

 the costal area red-brown. 



Ifab. Gambia {Sir A. Moloney), 1 J type t in Coll. Druee ; 

 Nmer 11., Sapele(/< W. Sampson), 1 c? ; E. Africa, Moshi. Kv/). 

 5-i millim. 



2110. Rhodogastria vidua. 



Noclua vidua, Cram. Pap. Exot. iii. p]. 264, C (1779) ; Kirby, Cat. Het. 



p. 195. 

 Noctua mauritia, Stoll, Pap. Exot. \v. pi. 315, B (1731) ; Kirby, Cat. Hct. 



p. 195. 

 Noctua piiella, Fabr. Ent. Syst. 3. i. p. 474 (1794). 



Head and thorax red-brown ; palpi crimson with black spots ; 

 antennse black ; frons and vertex of head with black spots ; tegiiUie, 

 patagia, shoulders, pro- meso- and metathorax with paired black 

 spots, the tegulae crimson below ; legs crimson striped with brown ; 

 abdomen crimson, dorsally tinged with brown, two lateral series of 

 black spots. Fore wing red-brown ; two black points at base ; the 

 cell, area below it, and interspaces between veins 7 and 2 semi- 

 hyaline. Hind wing brownish ochreous, the disk semihyaline. 



Hah. Lagos (Strahan), 1 (5 ; Old Calabar {Sampson), Id"; 

 Guinea; Gold Coast {Johnson), 1 (S ; Congo {Curror, Monteiro), 

 2 d , 1 $ . Kvj>. 50 millim. 



*2117. Rhodogastria nigroapicalis. 



Felochi/ta nigroapicalis, Auriv. Ent. Tidskr. 1899, p. 242. 



5 . White ; palpi, basal joint of antennoB, and back of head 

 pink, the extremities of joints of palpi black ; the vertex of head, 

 teguloe, patagia in front and behind, meso- and metathorax with 

 black spots ; pectus yellow ; legs pink, the fore tibiae and tarsi 

 with fuscous streaks above ; abdomen crimson above, yellow below. 

 Pore wing with two subbasal black points ; the terminal area 

 fuscous black, forming a large apical patch with oblique inner edge, 

 narrowing at middle then expanding towards tornus. Hind wing 

 with apical fuscous patch ; the inner area fuscous, expanding on 

 termen to below vein 3. 



Jlab, Cameroons, Barombi {Preuss). Exp. 58 millim. Type in 

 Coll. Staudinger. This species is unknown to me. 



2118. Rhodogastria vitripennis. 



Aganais vitripennis, Blanch. d'Orbigny'sDict. Hist. Nat.. Atlas Zool. ii. Ins. 



Lep. pi. 13. i". 3 (1849) ; Kirby, Cat. Het. p. 194. 

 Amhlythyris radama, Mab. Bull. Soc. Philom. (7) iii. p. 137 (1879). 

 Pelochyta vidua, Saalm. Lep. Madag. i. p. 150, pi. 5. f. 52 (18S4), nee Cram. 



Head and thorax reddish buff ; palpi crimson, with black points 

 above ; upper part of frons, basal joint of antennae, and vertex of 

 head with black points ; tegulae, shoulders, pro- meso- and meta- 

 thorax with pairs of black spots; legs mostly crimson, with black 



