EOTHIA. 577 



Subsp. 1. adalatrix, Westw. Gates' Matabeleland, p. 355, pi. G. f. 1 ; Kirby, 

 Oat. Het. p. 29. 



Abdomen with the white sublateral points absent in the Nyasa- 

 land specimen ; fore wing with the orange markings larger, the spot 

 below the cell large and wedge-shaped, especially in the Nyasaland 

 specimen. 



Hah. Br. C. Africa, Stevenson Rd. (Dewar), 1 (^ ; Matabele- 

 land, type t (S in Mus. Oxon. Exp. S 60 millim. 



*86. Rothia xanthopyga. 



Eusemia xanthopyga, Mab. Bull. Soc. Ent. Fr. (6) x. p. cxxiv (1890) ; id. 

 Nov. Lep. p. 50, pi. 8. f. 1 (1892) ; Kirby, Cat. Het. p. 899. 



6 . Head and thorax black ; 1st and 2nd joints of palpi, sides of 

 frons, back of head, tegulae, patagia, pro- meso- and metathorax 

 with yellowish-white spots ; fore coxse, femora, and tibiae orange, 

 tarsi with whitish bands ; abdomen black with orange bands, the 

 anal tuft orange except at base, the ventral surface with ill-defined 

 yellowish-white bands. Fore wing with small patches of silvery- 

 blue scales near base below costa and above vein 1, before middle 

 below costa, in and below cell and above vein 1, and as a postmedial 

 line represented by a discoidal bar and a line from vein 2 to inner 

 margin ; two yellowish subbasal points below costa ; orange ante- 

 medial spots in cell and above vein 1 ; a quadrate spot in end of cell 

 conjoined to a somewhat wedge-shaped spot below base of vein 2, 

 with a spot below it on inner margin ; an oblique postmedial band 

 from below costa to vein 3 and a spot above tornus ; cilia orange at 

 apex. Hind wing crimson, with black terminal band narrowing to 

 a point at tornus ; cilia yellowish at apex. 



Hah. Zaitzibar, type f c? in Coll. Mabille. Eocp, bQ millim. 



87. Rothia pentelia. (Plate LIII. fig. 1.) 



Eusemia pentelia, Druee, P. Z. S. 1887, p. 668 ; Kirby, Oat. Het. p. 30. 



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

 head, tegulse, patagia, and thorax with yellowish-white spots ; guise 

 yellowish ; coxae, femora, and tibiae with orange hair ; tarsi ringed 

 with white ; abdomen black banded with orange, the extremity 

 orange, the three terminal segments with the bands reduced to 

 spots on ventral surface. Eore wing black ; two ochreous-white 

 points below base of costa ; antemedial ochreous spots in cell and 

 above vein 1 ; a bar across end of cell and a rounded patch on inner 

 area ; a patch beyond the cell between veins 8 and 2, with rounded 

 extremities and its inner edge concave; a spot above tornus; silvery 

 blue bars in middle of cell and on discocellulars. Hind wing 

 scarlet, with black terminal band, its inner edge sinuous and 

 excised at middle, on costa not extending to middle. 



Hah. Delagoa Bay {Mrs. Monteiro), 1 (S . E.vp. 54 millim. 



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