XANTHOSPILOPTEEYX. 571 



Ab. 1. Tore wing with the medial spots conjoined; hind wing 

 scarlet. 



Hab. Br. E. Afkica, liuwenzori {Scott- Elliot), 1 S type, Unyoro 

 (Ansorge). Exp. 76 millim. 



77. Xanthospilopteryx hypercompoides. 



Xanthospilojoteryx hypercompoides, Butl. P. Z. S. 1895, p. 739, pi. 43. f. 5. 



$ . Head, thorax, and abdomen black ; sides of palpi and frons, 

 back of head, tegulae, and patagia with ochreous-white spots ; gulee 

 ochreous white ; coxae, tibiae, and tarsi with white spots, the tibiae 

 with orange hair on outer side ; abdomen with lateral and sublateral 

 series of white points, the extremity orange. Pore wing black ; 

 the basal area with small yellow spots below costa and cell and above 

 vein 1 ; an oblique antemedial band from just below costa to sub- 

 median fold, with rounded spot below it; a bar from below costa 

 across end of cell, and a quadrate spot below vein 2 ; a trifid band 

 beyond the cell from below costa to vein 5, with a wedge-shaped 

 patch between veins 5 and 3 extending nearly to termen ; a spot 

 above tornus. Hind wing deep orange ; a little black at base of 

 inner margin ; a terminal band narrow towards tornus, excised at 

 middle, expanding widely on apical area and on costa not extending 

 to middle. 



Hah. Br. E. Africa, Ruwenzori {Scott- Elliot), 1 $ type. Exp. 

 64 millim. 



*78. Xanthospilopteryx melanosoma. (Plate LIII. fig. 11.) 



Xanthospilopteryx melanosoma, Druce, A. M. N. H. (7) vii. p. 433 (1901). 



S . Head, thorax, and abdomen black ; 1st and 2nd joints of palpi, 

 sides of frons, and back of head with white poiuts ; a white rim 

 behind eyes ; tegulae each with two white points, patagia with one ; 

 legs with white points, the tibiae with orange bands ; abdomen with 

 orange dorsal tuft at base and with dorsal, lateral, sublateral, and 

 ventral series of white points. Eore wing black, with white point 

 at base and two below base of costa ; an orange point below base of 

 cell and short streak on vein 1 ; a wedge-shaped orange antemedial 

 patch in cell and elliptical patch below the cell ; a somewhat quad- 

 rate spot in end of cell and elongate patch below vein 2 ; a series of 

 elongate spots beyond the cell between veins 8 atid 2, those below 

 vein 5 longest, the one above vein 2 extending to cell and suffused 

 with black on its basal part ; some blue scales in and below middle 

 of cell and on discocellulars. Hind wing orange-scarlet ; a terminal 

 black band moderately broad at apex, narrowing to a point before 

 toruus, its inner edge angled inwards at vein 2 ; veins 6, 7 streaked 

 with black. 



Hah. E. Africa, type t d" in Coll. Druce. Exp. 70 millim. 



