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Abdomen blackish-brown with whitish ochreous segmental margins and bands on the 5th and the two last 
segments. Beneath with white and red scales. Anal tuft yellow on the sides and below. Forewing dark brown 
and fiery red. A short red streak below the costal margin, the subcostal and median veins, inner margin fiery 
red to the cell-end. Longitudinal area narrow, wedge-area short. In the distal hyaline area between veins 9 
and 3 the veins are red, like the luna at the cross-vein outside. On the hindwing the margin and veins are brown, 
the fringe at the inner margin and anal angle yellow. g 28 mm. Cape Colony. 
M. chakiphora limps. Body black with a lead-coloured gloss. Thorax behind and abdomen on the chalciphora. 
2nd and 3rd segments with fiery red spots, 4th segment with a yellow band, 5th, 6th, and the end fiery red. 
Palpi and antennae for the most part fiery reel. Tibiae fiery red, only the hind tibiae inside black. Tarsi 
yellow, inside white, hind tarsi inside somewhat orange. Forewing with black veins, costal and inner margins 
golden yellow with red. Cross-vein and distal margin golden yellow, the latter suffused with blackish brown. 
Hindwing hyaline with yellow veins, margin and fringe of both wings blackish brown. Beneath with golden 
yellow marking. $ 25 mm. East Africa. 
8. Genus: Syuaiithetloii Hbn. 
Proboscis normal, palpi slender, on the 1st joint below hairy. Antennae preapically thickened, in the 
^ crenate. Anal tuft in both sexes strong. In the forewing veins 7 + 8 stalked, the others at equal distances. 
In the hindwing veins 3 + 5 shortly stalked, 8 below the upper cell-angle, cross-vein somewhat oblique. 3 inner- 
marginal veins present. Type: vespiformis L. from Europe. 
S. pyrethra Hmps. Body blackish-brown, with a silvery gloss. Head orange-red, frons with a white pyrethra. 
spot. Forelegs orange, middle legs red. $ forewing orange-red, cross-vein red, behind it traces of hyaline spots, 
base and costal margin blackened. Hindwing hyaline, veins, costal and distal margins orange-red, the anterior 
inner-marginal vein with a black streak. Fringe on both wings blackish brown. $ forewing with a reddish- 
brown costal and distal margin. At the inner margin and below the costal margin at the base a red streak. 
Cross-vein broad black, behind it the veins red. On the hindwing the interior area is scaled red, with a black 
streak at the base at the inner margin. 38 mm. Cape Colony. 
S. semirufa Flclr. Body black, head red, patagia with a white margin. Forewing red. In the cell, on semirufa. 
the centre of the distal area and at the distal margin black. Hindwing at the margin broad black, otherwise 
varying between red and hyaline. 25 mm. Cape Colony. 
S. bifenestrata n. sp. (77 b). Body and palpi orange-red, beneath lighter. Antennae black with white bifenestrata. 
tips. Legs orange-red, tibiae black. Anal tuft laterally black. Forewing orange-red, costal and inner margins 
black. At the cell-end a small parted hyaline area and behind it a small one, above and below the latter a hyaline 
dot. Marginal line fine black. Hindwing hyaline, narrowly edged with bluish-black. Fringe on both wings 
blackish-brown. Beneath forewing more narrowly margined with black, hindwing with a reddish-yellow costal 
margin. <+ 19 mm. East Africa. Type in the Berlin Museum. 
S. eryfhromma Hmps. Body black. Frons, neck-ring, segmental margins, and anal tuft (partly) white, erythromma. 
Palpi almost entirely white. Middle and hind tibiae orange with red hairs, the middle tibiae at the end white- 
haired, the others black-haired. Hind tarsi with black and red hairs on the 1st joint, below white. Forewing 
hyaline, the margins and veins black. Cross-vein with a red spot, edged with black. In the marginal area red 
scales. Hindwing on the veins and distal margin narrowly black. Beneath the marking is more intensely 
scaled red. $ 20 mm. East Africa. 
S. rubripicta Hmps. Body black, frons white. Abdomen with yellow margins on the 1st and last rubripida. 
segments, a yellow band on the 4th segment, the latter also beneath. Anal tuft mixed with red, antennae also 
red. Palpi orange. Forelegs yellow, tarsi above somewhat black. Middle and hind tibiae with red hairs in the 
middle and at the end. Hind tarsi with black and red hairs, last joint above white, spurs also white. Forewing 
with black margins and veins. Somewhat red at the base of the inner margin, above vein 1 as far as the cell- 
end and below the centre of the costal margin. Cross-vein black with a red median streak, also on the centre 
of the marginal area red streaks and scales. Hindwing with a narrow margin. At the upper angle of the cross- 
vein a black and red spot. Beneath the costal margin of the forewing more intensely red. 18 mm. Sierra Leone. 
S. mesochoriformis Wh\ Greenish-black. Antennae reddish-yellow, at the tips black. Patagia and mesochori- 
segmental margins of abdomen above pale. Abdomen beneath pale, at the base lateral white hairs. Wings formis. 
hyaline. Forewing at the cross-vein and aj)ex golden violet. 16 mm. Natal. 
S. vassei Le Cerf (77 b). Brownish-black. Frons white, patagia at the end orange, abdomen above vassei. 
laterally white on each segment, so that the ground-colour forms flat triangles. Palpi and forelegs white. 
Middle and hind tibiae below white-haired, above orange with black places. On the forewing the longitudinal 
area very fine to the centre of the wings. Cross-vein as broad black as the margins, inside the hyaline areas 
dusted somewhat yellow. Hindwing narrowly margined with black. <$ 28 mm. Mozambique. 
S. flavipalpis Hmps. (77 b). Brownish-black. Frons and nearly the whole palpi yellow, patagia edged flavipalpis. 
with yellow. Anterior coxae and partly the tibiae yellow, abdomen laterally and the anal tuft spotted yellow. 
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