10S 
RHODOGASTRIA. By M. Gaede. 
stellata. 
brunnea. 
bipartita. 
pannosa. 
luteibarba. 
fennia. 
roseomargi- 
nata. 
rotlii. 
metasarca. 
carneola. 
castanea. 
mauritia. 
vidua. 
7 forming an accessory cell. In the hindwing veins 3 + 4 on a short fork, vein 5 rising above the cell-angle. 
The only species looks like an Agaristida. 
A. stellata Guer. (= luctifera Wkr.) (15 h). Head and tegulae red. Thorax black. Abdomen above 
red with black margins. Forewing black with creamy-white spots. Two in the cell, a double spot on the cross¬ 
vein and a curved row of small spots before the margin. Hindwing red. Distal margin and fringes black. 36 mm. 
Madagascar. 
5. Genus: Uli o do ga stria Hbn. 
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Proboscis well developed, palpi erect, antennae of A finely dentate. Hind tibiae with 2 pair of spurs, 
the inside spurs being long. Forewing with a straight costal margin. Vein 6 below the upper cell-angle, veins 
7 + 8 + 9 forked, vein 10 forming with 7 an accessory ceil. In the hindwing veins 3, 4, and 5 are somewhat 
separate, veins 6 and 7 from the upper cell-angle. Vein 8 very far fused with the cell. Nearly all the species 
are somewhat hyaline, either white or brown, and mostly so similar that they are only discernible by the figures. 
Type: astrea Drury from India. -— Cf. Vol. X, p. 260. 
Group. I. Inner angle of hindwing of the A somewhat produced, with a hair- 
pencil in the h i n d marginal f o 1 d. Abdomen above red, unless different! y 
stated. 
R. brunnea limps. (= subvitrea Brtl.) (16 a). Thorax greyish-brown with black dots, abdomen 
above orange. Forewing brown. Cross-vein darker, before it somewhat hyaline and also between veins 3 and 7. 
Apex and distal margin densely scaled. Hindwing brown. In the cell and behind it hyaline. Hind-margin 
orange. 50 mm. Togo, Niger District. 
R. bipartita Rothsch. (16 a) is lighter brown than brunnea. Apex of forewing not dark, subapical area 
thinly scaled. Hindwing not hyaline. In the basal area yellow, otherwise brownish, in the $ almost white. 
48 mm. East Africa, 
R. pannosa Grunb. (= sarconota Hmps.) (16 a). Thorax light brown, abdomen at the end darker red. 
Forewing dark brown, in and behind the cell somewhat hyaline. Hindwing pale brown, behind the cell darker. 
48 mm. Uganda, Niger District. 
R. luteibarba Hmps. (16 b) is similar to pannosa. Abdomen at the base brown, otherwise pink. Both 
wings pale brown, more intensely hyaline. Hindwing only at the hind-margin yet somewhat yellowish. 40 mm. 
Togo, Cameroon, Niger. 
Group II. Hair-pencil of <$ absent, otherwise quite similar to the preceding 
species. 
R. fennia Drc. (16 b). Thorax light red-brown, abdomen pink. Forewing red-brown, between the 
veins 7 and 2 hyaline and also below them yet somewhat diaphanous. Hindwing red-brown. In, below, and 
behind the cell hyaline. Veins and distal margin somewhat pink. 54 mm. East Africa, Niger District. 
R. roseoniarginata Rothsch. (16 b). Body and forewing as in fennia. Hindwing more extensively 
hyaline. Only the distal margin is narrowly pink, the hind-margin is brownish. In the $ the hind-margin is 
somewhat angular. 44 to 48 mm. Togo, Niger District. 
R. rotlii Rothsch. (16 b). Forewing somewhat darker, otherwise similar to roseomarginata. On the 
hindwing also the hind-margin is pink, at the apex somewhat darker. 50 mm. Niger District. 
R. metasarca Hmps. (16 c). Forewing pale red-brown. The diaphanous area behind the cell between 
the veins 7 and 2 distally sharply defined, with red-brown veins. Hindwing flesh-coloured pink, in the cell 
hyaline, at the apex brownish. A form of it is much less hyaline. 50 mm. Niger District, Gold Coast. 
R. carneola Hmps. (16 c) resembles a pale metasarca. On the forewing the hyaline area is somewhat 
retracted above vein 5. Hindwing almost quite hyaline, only at the margin flesh-coloured pink. 52 mm. East 
Africa. 
R. castanea Hmps. (16 c). Thorax and forewing coloured as in metasarca. The hyaline area is bordered 
as in carneola, but a little more intensely scaled. Hindwing diaphanous. Distal margin broad and distinctly 
brown, hind-margin pink. 50 mm. Niger District. 
R. mauritia Stoll. Forewing reddish-brown. In, behind, and below the cell somewhat diaphanous, 
indistinctly defined. Hindwing ochreous brown, in the centre somewhat diaphanous. 50 mm. Lagos, Congo. 
R. vidua Or. (= puella F.) (16 b) is very similar to mauritia. Somewhat darker. The hyaline area 
in the forewing is distally somewhat bent and at vein 5 extending almost to the margin. Besides the 2 black 
basal dots in the cell, as in most of the species, another one at the costal margin. Hindwing pale brown, very 
little hyaline. Range the same as of mauritia. 
