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hoary grey, witli a yellow patch between them ; in tlie ? the ochrcons is suffused 

 with tawny brown : hindwing with base ochreons and outer half tawny brown 

 with dark striations ; the margin as in forewing ; ? wholly suffused with tawny ; 

 fringe in both wings dark brown with pale tips. 



Face blackish green ; head and thorax dark grey, the vertex paler ; abdomen 

 pinkish grey, darker towards base ; in ? all the parts are darker, more suffused 

 with reddish grey ; palpi, pectus, and legs bright fulvous. 



Expanse of wings : c? 28 mm. ; ? 32 — 35 mm. 



5 c?c?, 4 ? ¥. 



TWO NEW AGABISTIDAE. 



By KARL JORDAN. 



1. Aegocera leighi spec. nov. 



<?. Side of palpus and the forecoxa chocolate ; head grey, a dot between antennae 

 brown, centre of frons and the crest of hairs at eye chocolate ; thora.x chocolate 

 .above, densely irrorated with grey and pale yellow scales ; abdomen orange above, 

 with central row of black spots, grey washed with chocolate on underside; tibiae 

 orange on upperside, fore- and midtibiae with two black dots each ; tarsi black, tips 

 of segments white ; bases of abdominal side-tufts chocolate beneath. 



Wings, upperside. Forewing chocolate, densely irrorated with huffish grey 



scales ; an irregular streak on median vein somewhat as in rectiUrica Boisd. (1S36), 

 irregularly sinuose, creamy white, not ijuite reaching a short costal creamy white 

 band which extends from lower angle of cell obliipiely to costa ; submarginal 

 area with an indistinct flexuose creamy line ; a row of minute admarginal chocolate 



dots. Hindwing orange ; a small dot on cross-veins and a row of submarginal 



spots black, the middle spots of the row minute. 



Underside orange, apices of both wings somewhat washed with chocolate ; 

 forewing with a black dot in cell near apex and another on cross-veins ; hindwing 

 with a black spot on cross-veins and three or four submarginal spots, which are much 

 smaller than above, situated from anal angle forwards. 



R- of forewing from apex of areole, as iu ^1. rectilinea ; areole longer than in 

 that species. 



Length of forewing : 15 mm. 



Ilab. Durban, Natal, October 1904 (G. F. Leigh) ; three specimens. 



2. Argyrolepidia pamphila ombiranus. 



?. y^'mgs, upperside ; blue tcaling reduced to a few dots on forewing and a 



minute spot in centre of hindwing. Forewing white, cell-spot minute ; white 



discal band very much broader than in p. pamphila, widening behind, stopping short 

 at M", measuring 3 mm. in width at M^ 



Underside: blue scaling also reduced, but not so much as above; central sjJot 

 of hindwing isolated. 



Ilab. Ubi, Moluccas (J. WaterstradtJ ; one ?. 



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