XANTHOSPILOPTEBTX. 565 



below base of vein 2 ; an oblique band from below costa 

 beyond middle to vein 3 towards tcrmen, with a notch in its 

 inner side at vein 4 ; a spot above tornus ; an oblique silvery-blue 

 spot in middle of cell, with some scales below the cell, and a dis- 

 €oidal lunule ; cilia white at apex. Hind wing crimson-red ; a broad 

 terminal black band with sinuous inner edge, expanding on ajncal 

 area and vein 2 and running inwards on costa to before middle; cilia 

 white at apex. 



Ab. 1. fathna. Fore wing with the antemedial band interrupted 

 at median nervure and in submedian fold. 



Bab. Br. E. Africa, Taita (Wmy), 2 c? type fatima; Br. C. 

 Africa, Zomba (Johnston), 2 2 ; Zululand {Angas)^ 1 c^* ; Natal 

 (Gooch, Gueinzius, Trimen\ 3 d" , 3 $, type. E.vp., 6 68, $ 76 

 millim. Ty^je t $ meretrix in Mus. Oxon. 



67. Xanthospilopteryx geryon. 



Noctua geryon, Fabr. Spec. Ins. ii. p. 216 (1781) ; Kirby, Cat. Het. p. 29. 

 Noctua eitphemia, Stoll, Pap. Exot. iv. pi. 345, A (1782). 

 E'usemia tnigatrix, Westw. Gates' Matabeleland, p. 356 (1881) ; Kirby, 

 Cat. Het. p. 29. 



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

 with white points ; tegulse with two pairs of orange spots ; patagia 

 with white points ; gulae and patches on pectus and coxae, streaks 

 on femora, and rings on tarsi white ; tibiae with orange patches ; 

 abdomen black, with orange dorsal bands and white lateral spots 

 and ventral bands. Fore wing black, with two orange spots below 

 base of costa ; an antemedial triangular spot in cell, often with 

 streaks above and below it and a spot above vein 1, a streak on inner 

 margin ; quadrate patches in end of cell and below base of vein 2, 

 the latter sometimes very large ; an oblique band with irregular 

 €dges from below costa beyond middle to vein 2, with a notch on its 

 inner side at vein 4, this band sometimes connected with the patch 

 below vein 2 ; a spot above tornus ; some silvery blue in and below 

 the cell near base, in and below middle of cell and on discocellulars ; 

 cilia white at apex. Hind wing orange-red to crimson-red ; the 

 costa black ; a broad black terminal band expanding at apex and 

 vein 2 ; cilia white at apex. 



Eah. Liberia, C. Palmas ; Sierra Leone (Mitford, Austen), 3 c? , 

 3 2 ; GruiNEA, 2 (S ; AsHANTi, 1 $ ; S. NiGERiA, Abutshi {Newman)^ 

 1 2 ; Upper Nile (Petherick), 2 d , Wadelai (Emin), 2 c? , 1 $ . 

 Kvp. 70-74 millim. Type t 6 nugatricc in Mus. Oxon. 



68. Xanthospilopteryx pallida. 



Eiisemia pallida, Wlk. 1. 52 (1854) ; Butl. 111. Het. B. M. i. p. 10, pi. 5. 



f. 3 ; Kirby, Cat. Het. p. 30. 

 Eiisemia niveosparsa, Westw. Gates' Matabeleland, p. 355 (1881) ; Kh'by, 



Cat. Het. p. 30. 



{niveosparsa.) Head and thorax black ; sides of palpi and frons, back 

 of head, tegulse, and patagia with white points ; gulae, stripes on coxse 



