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narrow dark brown apical spot. The white spot is very distinct. Hindwing without a white spot. 26(16 ?) mm. 
Seychelle Is. If it were not for the difference of size, meriani might be considered a form of it, because both the 
species exhibit a remarkably pointed forewing. 
R. albisignata Warr. Forewing pale ochreous with fine dark reticulated lines. On the costal margin 5 or albisignata 
6 dark spots from which hardly noticeable bands proceed. Below and behind the cell grey. At the apex a round 
white spot as far as vein 5, with two black dots in it. Hindwing white, at the margin ochreous, with a dark 
basal and median band. 9 26 mm. Niger. 
R. latizonalis Hmps. Pale ochreous brown. Forewing with dense fine brown reticulated lines. A black latizonalis. 
dot at the lower cell-end. Apical spot as in albisignata. Hindwing whitish, at the base and distal margin reddish, 
with a median band of black streaks. 26—30 mm. Sierra Leone. 
R. flavicilia Hmps. Rusty yellow, with a slight silvery gloss, with numerous dark brown streaks, flavicilia. 
Forewing with an interior and median line, an oblique exterior line, and another one right behind it to the 
interior angle, and a subapical line. On the hindwing these lines are less distinct. Both wings with a fine 
marginal line. 9 20 mm. Rhodesia. 
R. squamigera Pag. (76 g). Pale ochreous with fine red-brown lines in the basal half of the forewing, squamigera 
From the costal margin to the median vein and the subapical line slightly huecl with red-brown. Behind the 
centre a band strongly widened at the costal margin, composed of red-brown lines, from which the subapical 
line branches off. In the hindwing the median band is more widely reticulated, in front narrow, at the centre 
of the inner margin broader. 22—28 mm. Natal. 
R. fractifascia Warr. Similar, with narrower wings. On the forewing the red-brown hue extends to the fradifascia 
inner margin and % of the length of the wing, so that the exterior band is not prominent. Subapical line 
stronger. Hindwing more densely striated than in squamigera. Median band still looser. Fringes in both wings 
dark brown. <$ 25 mm. Niger. 
R. obliquifascia Warr. (76 g). Also similar to squamigera. A rather distinct, equally broad band extends obliquifas- 
from % of the costal margin on the forewing to % of the inner margin on the hindwing. Subapical band 
strong. From the anal angle of the hindwing traces of a parallel short band proceed. $ 22—30 mm. Cameroon, 
Angola. 
R. rostrifera Warr. Ochreous. Costal margin of forewing brownish-grey, striated blackish-brown. In rostrifera. 
the cell two dark spots from which indistinct bands extend to below the centre of the wing. The exterior dark 
brown band is oblique. Its interior border is concave, the exterior one bent to the centre of the distal margin. 
Hinclwing with a dark brown band of reticulate lines from the centre of the costal margin to the anal angle. 
(J 28 mm. Natal. 
R. hamatipex Hmps. (76 g). Rusty yellow with fine dark brown reticulations. On the forewing an hamatipex. 
indistinctly defined exterior band, at the costal margin broad, in the submedian fold slightly strangulated. 
Hindwing likewise with a median band. 17 mm. East Africa. 
R. fulvipicta Hmps. Forewing white, finely dotted brown, at the costal margin black dots. Inner and fulvipida. 
distal margins pale brown. An elliptical rusty yellow spot edged with brown in and below the cell, and a 
similar round one below the cell-end. At the apex a white marginal spot. Hindwing similarly coloured with a 
feeble brown median band, excurved behind the cell, turning blackish at the inner margin. £ 20 mm. West Africa. 
R. fuscibasis Hmps. (76 g). Ground-colour white. Forewing at the base with olive brown bands. At fuscibasis. 
the costal margin dark brown short streaks and feeble bands in the median area. At the centre of the distal 
margin olive yellow. Hindwing white, slightly olive brown at the costal margin, with dark fine rings. At the 
apex olive yellow. 9 i n the median and distal areas on the forewing darker. 26—32 mm. Congo. 
R. phoenicophora Hmps. Thorax rusty yellow. Abdomen and wings silvery white. Forewing with fine phoenico- 
rusty red reticulate lines and black streaks. On the rusty brown costal margin red spots with black streaks. phma 
One rusty yellow circle each in the centre of the cell and at the end of it, from the latter a line bifurcating 
at the inner margin. Marginal area with black streaks and red spots. Hindwing with rusty yellow streaks, 
distal margin as on forewing. 22 mm. Niger. 
R. acaciusalis Wkr. (76 g) is distributed from China to West Africa, where it occurs in the form acaciusalis 
sordidula Ploetz. Ground-colour white, centre of abdomen above brown. Forewing from near the base to beyond sordidula. 
the centre brown with dark brown spots, with a slight violet gloss. Hindwing the same. Under surface intensely 
pink, especially the veins. 25 to 28 mm. Eastern and Western Africa. 
R. multipunctata Hmps. (76 h). White. Forewing at the costal margin feebly brownish, uniformly multipunc- 
striated olive brown. At the distal margin black short oblique streaks. Hindwing at the costal margin not 
darkened. Marginal streaks sometimes connected, otherwise as on forewing. 28—35 mm. Delagoa Bay. The 
typical specimens from India exhibit on the forewing 1 or 2 rows of black marginal dots and coarser, paler 
markings, so that it is not sure whether it is the same species. 
R. Opalinula Mab. (= margaritalis Hmps.) (76 h). With a mother-of-pearl gloss, transparent. Forewing opalinula. 
at the costal margin somewhat violettish brown. Both wings with not very dense violettish brown reticulations. 
32—36 mm. Madagascar. 
