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bands. Fore wing deep chocolate-brown, thickly irrorated with pale 

 olive-green ; a wedge-shaped white fascia from base of costa to 

 beyond middle in submedian interspace, where it ends in a point, its 

 upper edge in the cell excised ; an elliptical or somewhat triangular 

 band beyond the cell from below costa to vein 3 on an olive-green 

 patch, an oblique silvery striga before middle from the fascia to 

 vein 1, with a red line on an olive band beyond it ; the orbicular and 

 reniform represented by silvery bars on olive patches ; a postmedial 

 silvery line excurved round the postmedial band, then retracted to 

 below angle of cell and oblique to inner margin ; a fine dark ter- 

 minal line ; cilia pale brown. Hind wing pure white, with black 

 terminal band broad at costa, narrowing to tornus and with sinuous 

 inner edge ; cilia pale brown at base, white at tips. 



Ab. 1. trimeni. Abdomen pale or deep orange at sides ; hind wing 

 more or less strongly tinged with pale or deep orange, leaving a 

 white line before the terminal band. 



Ab. 2. tricolor. Abdomen at sides and hind wing deep orange. 



ITab. SiEKKA Leone (Morgan), 1 c? , 2 $ ; Nigee E.., Onitsha, 1 2 ; 

 Senegal; Br. E. Africa, Wadelai (Ehnin), 1 c?, 1 $, Stony K. 

 (Crawshay), 1 $ , Voi (Betton), 1 $ , Sabaki Valley (Gregory), 1 $ ; 

 Natal, Durban, 2 cj" , 1 $ ; C Colony, Annshaw (Miss F. Barrett)^. 

 1 2 J Grrahamstown, 1 2 • ^^W- ^4-54 millini. 



163. Tuerta sabulosa. 



Eusemia sabulosa, Boisd. Eev. Zool. (3) ii. p. 106 (1874) ; Feld. Eeis. Not. 



pi. 107. f. 11 ; Druce, Biol. Centr.-Am., Het, ii. p. 329 ; Kirby, Cat. 



Het. p. 41. 

 Fenaria sevorsa, Grote, Papilio, ii. p. 132 (1882) ; Kirby, Cat. Het. p. 39. 

 Agarista noctuiformis, Moschl. Abh. Senck. Ges. xvi. p. 112 (1890) ; Kirby, 



Oat. Het. p. 41. 



Head white ; palpi at sides of 2nd and 3rd joint and antennse 

 blackish ; thorax clothed with white and dark chocolate-brown 

 scales ; fore tibise and the tarsi banded with black ; abdomen 

 orange, the dorsal crests dark, the ventral surface white. Pore 

 wing white, strongly irrorated with chocolate and silver scales, 

 sometimes leaving almost pure white patches at base and before the 

 costal half of postmedial line ; a dark antemedial line, very oblique 

 from costa to submedian fold where it is obtusely angled ; the 

 orbicular and reniform blackish with silvery scales on them, the 

 reniform produced to points above and below ; the postmedial line 

 slightly angled inwards at vein 5 and strongly incurved below 

 vein 3 ; a dentate subterminal line angled inwards at vein 2 and 

 with patches of silvery scales before it ; cilia chequered white and 

 blackish. Hind wing orange-yellow, with black terminal band 

 wide at costa, narrowing to tornus ; cilia white, blackish above 

 tornus. Underside of fore wing yellow, the orbicular and reniform 

 stigmata black with white patches between and beyond them, the 

 reniform conjoined to the broad black terminal band at its lower 

 extremity. 



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