504 ARCTIAD^. 



points on outer side of coxae ; abdomen crimson above, yellowish- 

 white below, with lateral series of black spots and sublateral spots 

 on first three segments. Fore wing reddish buff; two black points 

 at base ; a large discal hyaline patch formed by patches in and 

 below cell and in base of interspaces beyond it between veins 7 and 

 2, between veins 3 and 5 extending rather nearer termen. Hind 

 wing reddish buif, the inner area tinged with crimson; a semi- 

 hyaline patch in and beyond end of cell. 



Hah. Madagascar, Betsileo ( Coivan), 1 J , 1 5 ; Natal, ^.r^., 

 d 66, 2 70 millim. 



2119. Rhodogastria croceri. (Plate L. fig. 14.) 



Eiiprepia croJceri, Macl, King's Sury. Austr. ii. p. 465 (1827) ; Kirby, Oat. 



Het. p 195. 

 Amerila hrachyleuca, Meyr. P. Linn. Soc. N. S. W. (2) i. p. 765 (1886). 



Head and thorax ochreous white; palpi crimson with black spots 

 antennae black, crimson at base ; frous and vertex of head with 

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

 with paired black spots, the tegulse edged with crimson; legs mostly 

 crimson; fore and mid tibiae with black streaks; abdomen crimson, 

 the ventral surface ochreous white, two lateral series of black spots. 

 Fore wing with the basal fourth ochreous white, with .two black spots, 

 the rest of wing fuscous brown ; the end of cell and area below it 

 semihy aline ; a discoidal fuscous band ; hyaline patches beyond the 

 cell between veins 7 and 3 extending to near termen below vein 5. 

 Hind wing semihyaline whitish, the veins and inner area ochreous 

 brown ; a darker apical patch. 



Hah, Queensland {McGillivray, Elsey), 3 cT , 1 $ ; N. Britain, 

 1 $ . Exp. 60-68 millim. 



2120. Rhodogastria astreas. 



Glaucopis asireas, Drury, 111. Exot. Ent. ii. p. 28, f. 4 (1773) ; Hmpsn. 



Moths Ind. ii. p. 38 ; Kirby, Cat. Het. p. 195. 

 Sphinx melanthus. Cram. Pap. Exot. iii. pi. 286, B (1780). 

 NocUm eugenia, Fabr. Syst. Ent. 3. ii. p. 19 (1794). 

 Chelonia madagascariensis, Boisd. Delegorgue, Voy. Afr. Austr, ii. p. 598 



(1847); Kirby, Cat Het. p. 195. 

 Amerila rhodopa, Wlk. xxxi. 305 (1864) ; Kirby, Cat. Het. p. 195. 

 Creatonotus communis, Wlk. xxxi. 283 (1864) ; Kirby, Cat. Het. p. 195. 

 Amerila vitrea, Plotz, Stett. ent. Zeit. xli. p. 84 (1880) ; Kirby, Cat. Het. 



p. 195. 

 'Rhodogastria fraterna, Moore, Trans. Ent. Soc. 1884, p. 356 ; Kirby, Cat. 



Het. p. 195. 

 Amerila bauri, Moschl. Yerh. zool.-bot. Ges. Wien, xxxiii. p. 289, pi. 16. 



f. 2 (1884). 

 Amerila phadra, Weym. Stett. ent. Zeit. liii. p. 106 (1892). 



Head and thorax brownish grey to almost pure white ; palpi 

 crimson with black spots ; frons above, basal joint of antennae, and 

 vertex of head with black spots, the basal joint crimson below ; 

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



