XANXnOSPILOPTERYX. 563 



black band, expanding very widely on apical area, and with an 

 oblique series of elongate white spots between veins 4 nnd 8, 

 expanding again at torniis, and with a white spot and two silvery- 

 blue streaks above tornus ; cilia with series of white spots. Hind 

 wing redder orange, with terminal black band with sinuous inner 

 edge angled inwards on vein 2 ; cilia chequered white and black. 



2 . Abdomen with dorsal bhick bands on the orange area and 

 white band on subterminal segment ; fore wing without the black 

 and silvery mark in cell and on discocellulars. 



Hab. W. Africa, Guinea, Cameroons, 1 (S . Eccjp. 52 millim. 



63. Xanthospilopteryx mozambica. 



Eusemia mozambica, Mab. Bull. See. Ent. Fr. (6) x. p. cxxiii (1890); id 

 Nov. Lep. p. 51, pi. 8. f. 2 ; Kirby, Cat. Het. p. 898. 



S . Head and thorax black ; palpi, sides of frons, back of head, 

 tegulae, patagia, and thorax with white spots ; pectus, coxae, and 

 extremities of femora and tibiae with white spots, the fore and mid 

 tibisB with orange patches ; abdomen black, dorsally banded with 

 orange except at extremity, a lateral series of white spots and 

 ventral spots on terminal segments, sublateral orange streaks on 

 basal half. Fore wing black, with white point below base of costa ; 

 four subbasal points — below costa, in cell, below cell, and above 

 vein 1, the point below the cell nearer base ; an oblique orange 

 antemedial band from below costa to just above inner margin; a bar 

 across end of cell arising just below costa, and a large spot in sub- 

 median interspace ; a broad band with sinuous edges from below 

 costa beyond middle to near termen at vein 3, towards which it is 

 bent outwards ; a spot above tornus ; a silvery-blue spot in middle 

 of eel], a discoidal bar, and postmedial spots on veins 2 and 1 ; cilia 

 white at apex. Hind wing crimson-red ; the base black ; a large 

 black discoidal spot ; a broad black terminal band expanding widely 

 between veins 3 and 2 ; cilia white-tipped at apex ; the underside 

 with a little orange on termen below vein 2. 



Hah. Zanzibar, 1 S ; Mozambique, type f $ in Coll. Mabille. 

 Exjp. 70 millim. 



64. Xanthospilopteryx perdix. (Plate LII. fig. 3.) 



Eusemia perdix, Druce, P. Z. S. 1887, p. 668 ; Kirby, Cat. Het. p. 29. 

 Eusemia eoa, Mab. Bull. See. Ent. Fr. (6) x. p. cxxiii (1890) : Kirby, Cat. 

 Het. p. 898. ^ ^ ^ ^ 



2 . Head and thorax black ; sides of palpi and frons, back of head, 

 tegulae, patagia, and thorax with yellowish-white spots ; guise 

 yellowish white ; pectus, coxae, femora, tibiae, and tarsi marked with 

 white, the tibiae with orange bands ; abdomen black, banded with 

 orange, and with the extremity orange. Fore wing black ; two 

 yellowish-white points below base of costa and a short streak above 

 vein 1 ; an oblique sinuous orange antemedial band from subcostal 



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