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70. Xanthospilopteryx pardaliiia. (Plate LII. fig. 18.) 



Eusemia pardalina, Wlk. Proc. Nat. Hist. Soc. Glasg. i. p. 329, pi. 5. f . 1 



(1869) ; Kirby, Cat. Het. p. 29. 

 Eusemia ochracea, Butl. A. M. N. H. (4) xv. p. 142 (1875). 

 Xanthospilopteryx kirhyi, Carpenter, P. Dublin Soc. viii. p. 308 (1893). 



$ . Head and thorax black ; palpi at sides, gulae, coxae, femora 

 and tibiae at extremity, and tarsal joints with white spots ; sides of 

 frons, back of head, tegulse, and patagia with ochreous spots ; tibiae 

 with orange patches ; abdomen black, with dorsal orange bands and 

 the anal tutt orange, sublateral and ventral series of ochreous-white 

 spots. Fore wing black ; three small yellow points below basal part 

 of costa, two below the cell and one above vein 1 ; an antemedial 

 orange-yellow spot extending from just above to just below cell ; a 

 small medial spot above vein 1 and elongate spot below it ; a quad- 

 rate spot in end of cell and another below base of vein 2 ; an oblique 

 band beyond the cell between veins 8 and 3, its extremities rounded 

 and its inner edge indented at vein 5 ; a spot above tornus ; silvery 

 blue marks in and below middle of cell, a discoidii line, and spots 

 on veins 2 and 1 ; cilia yellowish at apex. Hind wing orange ; 

 a little black at base ; a broad terminal black band, angled inwards 

 at vein 2, with a yellow spot below it most prominent on underside, 

 expanding on apical area and on costa running inwards to base ; 

 cilia yellowish at apex. 



Hah. Congo, 2 $ , type and type ocliracea ; Angola, Kinsembo 1 $ . 

 Eocp. 60 millim. 



71. Xanthospilopteryx superha. 



Eusemia superha, Butl. A. M. N. H. (4) xv. p. 141, pi. 13. f. 3 (1875) ; 



Kirby, Cat. Het. p. 29. 

 Eusemia imongruens, Butl. P. Z. S. 1878, p. 381 ; Kirby, Cat. Het. p. 29. 

 Xanthospilopteryx smithii, HoU. Donaldson Smith's Unknown African 



Countries, p. 408, f. 3 (1897). 

 Eusemia interniplaga, Mab. Bull, Soc. Ent. Fr. (6) Ix. p. clxxxiv (1891) ; 



Kirby, Cat. Het. p. 899. 



Fig. 2'^T .—Xanthospilopteryx superha, ^ . \. 



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

 tegulae, and patagia w^ith white spots ; gula) white, fore coxae and 

 extremity of femora white ; tarsal joints with white points ; tibiae 

 with orange patches ; abdomen black, with dorsal orange bands 



