. Catalogue of Lepidoptera Phalaenae in the British Museum. Moths. XANTH08PIL0PTBRYX. 567 70. Xanthospilopteryx pardaliua. (Plate LII. fig. 18.) Eitsoniti pardcdnia, Wlk. Proc. Nut. Hist. Soc. Glasg. i. p. 32'J, pi. 5. f. 1 (); Kii-by, Cat. Ilet. p. 2'J. Eusemia ochracca, Butl. A. M. N. IT. (4) xv. p. 142 (1875). Xanthoapilopferi/x kirhjji, Carpenter, P. Dublin Soe. viii. p. 308 (1893). 5 . Head and thorax black ; palpi at sides, gula3, coxaj, femora and tibiic at extremit}-, and tarsal joints with white spots ; sides of irons, back of head, teguUe, and patagia with ochreous spots ; tibi
. Catalogue of Lepidoptera Phalaenae in the British Museum. Moths. XANTH08PIL0PTBRYX. 567 70. Xanthospilopteryx pardaliua. (Plate LII. fig. 18.) Eitsoniti pardcdnia, Wlk. Proc. Nut. Hist. Soc. Glasg. i. p. 32'J, pi. 5. f. 1 (); Kii-by, Cat. Ilet. p. 2'J. Eusemia ochracca, Butl. A. M. N. IT. (4) xv. p. 142 (1875). Xanthoapilopferi/x kirhjji, Carpenter, P. Dublin Soe. viii. p. 308 (1893). 5 . Head and thorax black ; palpi at sides, gula3, coxaj, femora and tibiic at extremit}-, and tarsal joints with white spots ; sides of irons, back of head, teguUe, and patagia with ochreous spots ; tibia) with orange patches : abdomen black, with dorsal orange bands and the anal tiUt orange, sublateral and ventral series of ochreous-white spots. Fore wing black ; three small yellow points below basal part of costa, two below the cell and one above vein 1; an antemedial orange-yellow spot extending from just above to just below cell; a small medial spot above vein 1 and elongate spot below it; a quad- rate spot in end of cell and another below base of vein 2 ; an oblique band beyond the cell between veins S and 3, its extremities rounded and its inner edge indented at vein 5 ; a spot above tornus; silvery blue marks in and below middle of cell, a discoidal line, and spots on veins "2 and 1 ; cilia yellowish at apex. Hind wing orange ; a little black at base : a broad terminal black band, angled inwards at vein 2, with a yellow spot below it most prominent on underside, expanding on apical area and on costa running inwards to base; cilia yellowish at apex. Hub. Congo, 2 § , type and type ochracea ; Angola, Kinsembo 1 $ . Exp. 60 millim. 71. Xanthospilopteryx superba. Eusemia siiperha, Butl. A. M. N. H. (4) xv. p. 141, pi. 13. f. 3 (1875) ; Kiiby, Cat. Het. p. 29. Eusemia im'ongruens, Butl. P. Z. S. 1878, p. 381 ; Kirbj, Cat. Het. p. 29. Xanthoapilnpteryx smithil, HoU. Donaldson Smith's Unknown African Countries, p. 408, f. 3 (1897). Eusemia interniplaga, Mab. Bull. Soc. E
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