ROTHIA; WEYMERIA; ARROTHIA; ARCTIOPAIS. By I)r. K. Jordan. 
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R. eriopis (3 d); very mucli like dayremi\ abdomen with a central row of black spots above, 
in the ^ the last two rings black, the anal tip yellow above. On the forewing the spots larger than in dayrpjid, 
the abdominal margin of the hindwings without the black streak, hindwings yellow (f. eriopis H.-Schiiff.) eriopis. 
or red (f. carminata Roths.) (3 cl), Avith a white blotch beyond the upper apex of the cell, particularly distinct carminuia. 
in f. carminata. Known from Morondawa (Southwest Madagascar) and from Ambre in the northern j)art of the 
island. 
R. westwoodi Btlr. (3 c). Black. Legs, pectus and underside of abdomen largely orange. Forewing vjestwoodi. 
with a short, somewhat bulging, yellowish-white discal band; hindwing with large c|uadrate yellowish-white 
median area. Underneath the base of both wings as well as the costal and inner margins of the hindwing as 
far as the black terminal border orange. — Madagascar: Fianarantsoa and Antananarivo. 
R. powelli Oberth. (5 a) principally differs from ivestwoodi in having on the underside the base of the ■powelti. 
forecving more broadly orange and the pale area of the hindwing altogether orange. — Fianarantsoa; it is 
possibly the $ of westwoodi. 
I here add still a mainland species the position of which is still doubtful, agreeing neither with 
Tuerta or Schausia nor Aegocera. 
R. (?) tricolora B.-BuA:.) (4 a), described as Aegocera. Tibiae devoid of spines; Irons of Rof contracted; tricolora. 
antennae distinctly thickened at the ends, in the A with blunt points; the second segment of the palpi as in 
Aegocera, the 3rd short. Head and upperside of thorax blackish fuscous, with yellowish-white markings. Pec¬ 
tus covered with long yellow hair; abdomen rufous above, with black central streak, beneath yelloAV. Forewing 
blackish fuscous with a red stripe before the inner margin, 3 spots at the anterior margin of the cell, a 
larger one below the cell, and a shortened discal band, all yellowish-white. Hindwings red with black 
border. Cameroon, Congo, Northeast Rhodesia. 
3. Genus: Weymeria Karsch. 
Segments 1 and 2 of palpi covered with shorter hair than in Rothia and XanthospiloiAeryx, particu¬ 
larly in $; 3 long and delicate. Frons with a truncate appendage, with raised edge. Antennae thin, thicker 
at the ends, distinctly in (J, quite feebly in $. Tibiae without any unusually long hair; A with the 1. seg¬ 
ment of the foretarsi only slightly longer, but much thicker than the 2nd, 2—5 naked, middle and hindtarsi 
with the 5th segment naked i. e. only provided with a delicate down; in the $ segment 5 of all the tarsi 
densely covered underneath Avith S-shaped, curved, yelloAvish hair, the spines of the 1. segment of the hind- 
tarsi of A long and bristling. On the forcAving the 1. subcostal nerAmle arises at about the same height as 
the loAver median, the 2nd at the secondary cell, the upper median very close to the loAver angle of the cell; the cell 
itself, measured to the loAver angle, someAAhat shorter than the distance from that corner to the apex of the AA'ing; 
the cell in the liindAAung much shorter than half the length of the Avings. 
W. athene Weym. (3 d). Upperside of thorax and abdomen as AAnll as the base of the palpi orange, the athene. 
rest of the body black AAuth Avhite markings, abdomen spotted or ringed Avith black above, tipped Avith black 
and AA’hite. Wings scarlet to reddish orange, Avith black, Avhite-spotbed border. One $ from Lake Tanganyika 
has the submarginal spots suffused Avith yellow^ both above and beneath: = ab. suffusa ab. nov. The body suffusa. 
varies in the extent of the AA'hite colouring; the tAvo large spots on the foreAvings are in the (J smaller than in $. 
German East-Africa: Tanganyika and Kiloa. 
4. Genus : Arrotliia Jord. 
$ palpi as in Weymeria, but the hair on the 2. segment longer than in $ of Weymeria athene. 
Antennae distinctly thickening distally; frontal appendage long, thin, truncate. Underside of the 5 segment 
of the hindtarsi (the other tarsi are Avanting in the only knoAvn specimen), covered on the sides AA’ith S-shaped 
curved hairs; middle and hindtibiae above covered AAdth moderately long hair. Neuration \^ery much as in 
Weymeria, the 2. subcostal nervule arising, together Avith 3, 4 and 5, from a common, very short stalk, 
or originating at the apex of the secondary cell very close to 3, 4 and 5; the stalk of 3, 4 much longer than 
3, Avhich is free. The cell in the hindAvings short. One species from Madagascar. 
A. bicolor Roths. (5 a). Black, the thorax orange above, abdomen above yelloAV, Avith the exception bicolor. 
of the extremity. Wings yelloAA', broadly bordered AAuth black. — MorondaAA’a (SoutliAA^est Madagascar), 1 ^ in 
the Tring Museum. 
5. Genus: Arctiopais Jord. 
Palpi AAuth segments 1 and 2 covered AAuth long hair, 3 thin and very long, eA^enly scaled and porrect. 
Antennae of distinctly, of $ indistinctly thickened at end. Frons of compressed posteriorly, the appen- 
