XANxnospiLorxEKYX. 569 



white at apex. Hind wing orange-red, with black terminal band 

 with sinuous inner edge, broad at costa, narrowing to a point at 

 tornus ; cilia white. 



Hah. Cameroons, in Coll. Staudinger. E,v)d. 90 millim. 



73. Xanthospilopteryx longipennis. 



Eusemia lovgijyennis, Wlk. i. 51 (1854) ; Butl. 111. Hct. B. M. i. p. 10, pi. 5. 



f. 5 ; Kirby, Cat. Het. p. 30. 

 XanthoR'piloj)teryx ahacata, Karscb, Ent. Nachr. xviii. p. 181 (1892). 



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

 tegulae, and patagia with white points ; guise, coxae, streaks on 

 femora, and rings on tarsi white ; tibiae with a few orange hairs on 

 outer side ; abdomen dull orange, blackish towards base and ex- 

 tremity, the hair blackish. Fore wing with three bluish points below 

 basal part of costa ; an orange antemedial spot sometimes present in 

 cell and an elongate spot on inner margin ; a bar across end of cell, 

 with streak above it and somewhat quadrate spot below vein 2 ; 

 a series of elongate spots beyond the cell between veins 8 and 5, a 

 streak above vein 4 with a more rounded spot below its extremity ; 

 a spot above tornus ; some silvery blue in middle of cell and on dis- 

 cocellulars ; cilia white at apex. Hind wing orange-red, black at 

 base ; a broad terminal black band with sinuous inner edge, angled 

 above vein 4 and running back on costa to base ; cilia white at apex. 



5 . Abdomen pale orange, the base and a series of lateral spots 

 black, the ventral surface tinged with black and white. Hind wing 

 with the cilia mostly white. 



Hah. AsHANTi, 3 c? , 1 5 , type ; German W. Africa, Baliburg ; 

 Congo, Kuilu, 1 $. Exi^., S 92-106, $ 82 millim. 



*74. Xanthospilopteryx cirbyi. (Plate LII. fig. 17.) 



XanthospUopferyx Tcirhyi, Holl. A. M. N. H. xx. p. 292 (1897). 



(S . Black ; 1st and 2nd joints of palpi, sides of frons, and vertex 

 of head with white points ; tegulse with two pairs of pale yellow 

 spots ; patagia and thorax with some white hairs ; legs streaked 

 with white and with some yellow on tibiae ; abdomen brownish 

 orange, the dorsum with some long black hairs, segmental and 

 lateral lines and terminal segment black mixed with yellow hair. 

 Fore wing with three small yellow spots on basal area below the 

 costa, one in cell, two below the cell, and one above vein 1 ; a medial 

 ochreous-yellow band composed of a streak below costa conjoined to 

 a quadrate patch in cell, conjoined to a large lunulate patch below 

 the cell and an oblique mark on inner area ; some silvery-blue scales 

 in the cell before the band and on discocellulars ; an oblique post- 

 medial band formed by four elongate spots from below costa to vein 

 4, with a more rounded spot below vein 4 ; a small spot above tornus ; 

 cilia white at apex. Hind wing ochreous yellow, with diffused black 

 on basal and inner areas ; a broad terminal black band expanding 



