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and legs white and orange, the latter banded with black ; abdomen 

 orange and white, with dorsal black bands and lateral and sublateral 

 series of points. Eorc wing yellowish white ; the costal and inner 

 margins irrorated with black ; a deep red stripe in submedian fold 

 from near base to postmedial line ; a subbasal black line from costa 

 to median nervure ; a double antemedial oblique line interrupted at 

 the red stripe, then sinuous ; black-edged and centred ocelli in and 

 below middle of cell, with a few blue scales on their middles ; a 

 similar large reniform discoidal spot ; the postmedial line angled 

 inwards at vein 5, below vein 3 retracted to the reniform spot, then 

 sinuous, a waved deep red line beyond if, and black streaks in the 

 interspaces of terminal area ; cilia black, the tips whitish. Hind 

 wing orange suffused with red ; a diffused discoidal lunule, the ter- 

 minal area red with orange spots on termen ; cilia black at base, 

 yellowish at tips ; the long hair on inner margin yellowish. 



2 . Hind wing bright orange, with black discoidal bar ; a waved 

 black subterminal line connected with termen by streaks in the inter- 

 spaces ; cilia black, orange at tips. 



Hab. Germaist S.W. Africa, Damaraland; Transvaal, Pretoria 

 (Distant) ; Natal, Tugela R. (Lorimer), 3 (S , type gonloni^ Estcourt 

 {Hutchinson), 2 cS , (Leigh) 1 $ . E.vj^. 42 millim. 



Genus PSEUDOSPIRIS. 



Pseudospiris, Butl. P. Z. S. 1 895, p. 267 paidiformis. 



Type. 



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Proboscis fully developed ; palpi porrect, clothed with rough scales and not 

 reaching as far as irons, which has a truncate conical prominence excised in 

 front and with a flat corneous plate below it with rounded outer edge ; antennai 

 of male simple, distinctly dilated towards extremity ; fore tibia; with a curved 

 spine at extremity on outer side ; the spurs moderate ; abdomen with slight 

 lateral tufts of hair on terrninal segments, the claspers of male large and 

 covered by the large anal tuft. Fore wing narrow, produced at apex ; vein 3 from 

 well before angle of cell ; 4,-5 from angle ; 6, 7, 8, 9 stalked ; 10 from cell rarely 

 anastomosing or stalked with 6, 7, 8, 9 ; 11 from cell. Hind wing with veins 

 3, 4 from angle of cell ; 5 obsolescent from middle of discocellulars ; 6, 7 stalked; 

 8 free at base, then anastomosing with the cell to near extremity; the inner 

 area clothed above with long hair, in male being extremely long. 



110. Pseudospiris paidiformis. 



Pseudospiris paidiformis, Butl. P.Z.S. 1895, p. 267, pi. xv. ff. 8 9. 



c^* . Head and tborax ochreous ; palpi at tips, frontal prominence, a 

 spot on vertex of head, edges of tegulse and patagia, and spots on meso- 

 and raetathorax black ; legs banded with black ; abdomen orange- 

 yellow with black segmental lines. Fore wing ochreous; the costal 

 edge black at base ; a subcostal streak from antemedial line to apex ; 

 an oblique subbasal black line from costa to vein 1 on which there is a 

 short streak; a small black spot in base of cell ; elliptical deep red spots 

 below costa and cell, the latter with au oblique line from its outer edge 

 to vein 1 ; an oblique sinuous antemedial black line ; a large oblique 

 elliptical black-edged annulus in middle of cell, with a similar one 



