570 



AGAEISTIDiE. 



on apical area and running along costa to middle ; cilia white at 

 tips. 



Ab. 1, Small ; fore wing with elongate spot on middle of inner 

 margin, widely separate from the well separated medial spots ; hind 

 wing crimson-red with the costal area orange : 60 millim. — Kampala, 

 Coll. Rothschild, 



Ab. 2. As last, but hind wing crimson in male, scarlet in female : 

 82-90 millim.— Unyora, Pt. Alice, Coll. Rothschild. 



Hah. " Tropical Africa," type t d" in Coll. Holland ; Be. E. Africa, 

 Kampala, Unyora, Pt. Alice (Ansorge). Exp. 94 millim. 



75. Xanthospilopteryx semulatrix. 



Eusemia cemulatrix, Westw. Gates' Matabeleland, p. 355 (1881) ; Mab. Nov. 



Lep. pi. ix. f. 3 ; Kirby, Cat. Het. p. 30. 

 Xanthospilopteryx lomata, Karscb, Ent. Nacbr. xviii. p. 182 (1892). 



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

 head, tegula}, and patagia with white points ; gulte, coxae, streaks on 

 femora, and rings on tarsi white ; tibise tinged with dull orange ; 

 abdomen dull orange. Fore wing black ; the basal area with three 

 bluish-white points below costa and two below the cell ; a small 

 ochreous triangular antemedial spot in cell, a slight streak above 

 vein 1, and a prominent streak on inner margin ; a bar across end 

 of cell and a quadrate spot below base of vein 2 ; a series of con- 

 joined oblong spots beyond the cell between veins 8 and 5 ; a longer 

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

 spot above tornus ; some silvery blue in and below middle of cell 

 and on discoceliulars ; cilia white at apex. Hind wing orange-red ; 

 a terminal black band expanding on apical area and at vein 2 and 

 running along costa to before middle ; cilia white at apex. 



S . Fore wing with the orange spots smaller, especially the post- 

 medial spots which are not conjoined. 



Hab. Gold Coast ; German^ W. Africa, Baliburg; Congo, 1 $. 

 Exp. 74 millim. Type f d" in Mus. Oxon. 



76. Xanthospilopteryx mons-luneiisis,n. sp. (Plate LIII. fig. 10.) 



Head and thorax black ; sides of palpi and frons with white spots ; 

 back of head, tegula?, and patagia with yellow spots ; guige, coxae, 

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

 abdomen dull orange, the hair on dorsum blackish, a lateral series 

 of black spots. Fore wing black, the basal area with three ochreous- 

 yellow spots below costa, one in cell, two below the cell, and two 

 above vein 1 ; a rather bar-shaped spot across end of cell, and an 

 oblique elliptical spot below base of vein 2 ; a series of elongate 

 conjoined spots beyond the cell between veins 8 and 4, with a 

 rounded spot below vein 4 ; a spot above tornus : some silvery-blue 

 scales in middle of cell and on discoceliulars ; cilia ochreous-yellow 

 at apex. Hind wing ochreous-yellow, with a very slight reddish 

 tinge on inner area ; the base black ; a terminal black band expand- 

 ing widely on apical area and at vein 2 ; cilia ochreous at apex. 



