778 CATALOGUE OF 



Female, Yellow. Body white beneath. Head white. Palpi 

 smooth, obliquely ascending", hardly rising higher than the vertex, 

 mostly fawn-colour above ; third joint lanceolate^ shorter than the 

 second. Antenna? fawn-colour. Thorax white in front. Abdomen 

 white; sutures of the segments and tip fawn-colour. Tips of the 

 femora, tibiae above and tarsi of the fore legs fawn-colour. Fore 

 wings with a diffuse brown streak extending from the middle of the 

 disk to the exterior border, which with the fringe is dark brown. 

 Hind wings white, iridescent, diffusedly gilded about the exterior 

 border. Length of the body 7—8 lines; of the wings 16 — 18 

 lines. 



a. Sierra Leone. Presented by the Eev. D. F. Morgan. 

 6, Sierra Leone. From Mr. Foxcroft's collection. 



Xanthodes duplicata. 



Foem. Pallide aurato-fiava ; caput album, lateribus cervinis ; 

 palpi albi, extus fusci ; thorax antice albus ; alee antica vitta 

 apicem versus dilatata, linea marginali, fimbria punctisque 

 paucis subcostalibus rufescentibus, punctis duobus nigris sub- 

 apicalibus minimis ; postica? saturatiores. 



Female. Pale gilded yellow, white beneath. Head and fore 

 part, of the thorax silvery white, the former fawn-colour on each 

 side. Palpi white, brown on the outer side. Fore wings with a 

 reddish gilded stripe which widens from near the base to the ex- 

 terior border; marginal line and fringe reddish; a few reddish sub- 

 costal points, and two black very small subapical points. Hind 

 wings deeper yellow. Length of the body 10 lines ; of the wings 

 24 lines. 



It is closely allied to 4KT. latescens, and may be a local variety 

 of it. There are no markings near the interior border of the fore 

 wings. 



Siam. In Mr. Saunders' collection. 



Xanthodes amata. 



Foem. Pallide flava; caput album, subtus cervinum ; palpi 

 porrecti, compressi, extus cervini, articulo 3o longi- 

 conico ; thorax antice albus ; abdomen album, segment- 

 orum marginibus posticis apiceque cervinis; alee anticce 



