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XANTHOSPILOPTERYX. By Dr. K. Jordan. 
pardalina. X. pardalina Wkr. (= ocliracea Btlr., kirbyi Carp.) (Id). Abdomen ringed with black and yellow 
above, beneath black with three rows of white spots, tipped in C with black, in $ with yellow; femora black 
with long white dash above, middle and hindtibiae distally black with Avhite tips. The spots on the forewings 
and the hindwings yellow, the latter with a yellow subanal spot in a black border nnderneath, more rarely 
also above; costal margin black; fringe at the apex of the forewings yellowish-white, of the hindwings deeper 
yellow. The lower one of the first pair of spots on the foi’ewing is divided by the internal vein into a smaller 
anterior and a longer posterior sj)ot. Angola, Congo. 
fatima. X. fatima Kirhy (1 c) resembles africnna, but has the subbasal band on the forewing dissolved into two 
spots which are much smaller than the antemedian ones; at the inner margin, at or before the middle, frequently 
an indistinct yellow dash. — German and British East-Africa. 
X. geryon F. ( = euphemia Stoll, nugatrix Westw.) (1 d). Collar with large orange spot; abdomen spot¬ 
ted with white beneath, in the C tipped with black, in $ yellow. Forewing with a long dash in the basal area 
at the inner margin, a large spot in the cell and two further ones before it, and 1 or 2 before the internal vein; 
antemedian blotches mostly large, the subapical band not broken up into spots, only notched on the inside at 
Qeryon. the lower radial. Hindwings bordered with black distally and costally, either crimson (f. geryon F.) (Id) or 
ilava. reddish-orange (f. flava /orw. nov.). — From Sierra Leone to the Niger and farther East as far as the White 
Nile, Wadalai and Toro; not known in Cameroon, Gabun and on the Congo. 
pallida. X. pallida Wkr. (— niveosparsa Westiv.) (1 e as niveosparsa). Head and thorax with white dots; abdo¬ 
men ringed with yellow above, the last rings whitish, C with the anterior segments altogether yellow, the poste¬ 
rior ones ringed with white; the first segment of the $ with a yellow transverse band, all others with white 
ones, the abdomen both of C f^^d $ tipped with yellow. On the forewing the spots pale yellow (underneath 
nearly clear white), all well separated from one another; in the basal area a small cell-spot and a long streak 
at the inner margin, the subapical band interrupted, on account of the third spot being absent' or only indica¬ 
ted. Hindwings red. — Goldcoast, Nigeria, Cameroon. The type of niveosparsa has the spots on the forewings 
white with yellowish tinge (faded), and the type of pallida is strongly discoloured. 
X. deficiens Mab. Abdomen both of C ? tipped with black, otherwise like that of pallida, but the 
minerva. anterior segments even in the S entirely yellow underneath. Spots on the forewings white (f. minerva 
deficiens. Weym.) (1 e), or feebly yellowish (f. deficiens Mab.), the dash at the inner margin absent, but one or two 
distinct spots before the internal vein, subapical band contiguous, only the last spot more or less isolated. 
Known to me only from the coast-region of German East-Africa and from the island of Pemba. Mabille’s 
statement that it came from Gabun, is surely an error. 
ierminaiis. X. terminatis Wkr. (1 e, as terniinalis). Abdomen of the C ringed with yellow in front and white 
behind, underneath in front almost wholly yellow, in the $ above as in the (J, beneath all the transverse 
bands Avhite, occasionally also above; abdominal tip yellow in both sexes, the last segment only at the base 
black. Forewings marked as in pallida, with the spots almost clear white, the subapical band interrupted, the 
dash at the inner [iiargin small or absent. Hindwings yellow, the base narrowly black. Marginal border broad, 
with a white spot before the anal angle underneath. — From Sierra Leone to the Niger. 
medeba. X. medeba Druce. 9- Abdomen ringed with white and broadly tipped with yellow. Hindwings white, 
under surface more or less broadly yellow near the base; the black margin sometimes very broad and some¬ 
what blurred. Old Calabar and Clameroon. Possibly only a form of the preceding species. 
airifusa. X. atrifusa Hmps. Like terminatis, but with the marginal border of the hindwings tapering behind, 
and the hindwing itself suffused with black. — Semliki Plains, Unyoro. Most likely also a form of terminatis. 
atriventralis. X. atriventralis Hmps. C • abdomen ringed with yellow and black above, beneath black with a feAv 
yellow spots at the sides, but without any central spots. Forewings with a small basal spot in the cell 
and two small similar spots before the internal vein, the dash at the inner margin absent, the antemedian 
spots united so as to form a narrow band, the subapical band not dissected by black streaks along the veins. 
Hindwings red, with black marginal border; under surface yellow in front, the costal margin dusted with 
black almost to the base. Spines of the foretarsi slender. Northeastern Rhodesia. 
X. superba. Abdomen ringed with black and yellow above, with three rows of white spots, tipped with 
black in the d*, with yellow in the $, femora black, with a white spot at the extremity above, the tibiae of the 
middle and hindlegs broadly black distally, with white tips. The spo'fcs on the forewings yellow, the lower spot of the 
