( i»fi ) 



llimhviiig with the coslal black border broader thau above, haviiijr a breadth 

 of about 1 mm. 



Auteunae clubbed, as in Aegocera fercida Wlk.; tiji i)ale ochraceous, njiperside 

 scaled white. Palpi black; first and second joint (except back and sides of the 

 latter) and ventral portion of the base of the third joint tawn}- ochraceous ; second 

 joint with long hairs, as in A./rrvida Wlk. Head black, with two white frontal 

 lines. Thorax black, with four white spots on the collar, one on each tegula, and two 

 in the middle line of the mesotborax ; l)elow, the thorax has a tawnv orange mark 

 near the base of the forewiugs. Abdomen black, sides of base tawny ochraceous. 

 Legs black; anterior coxae and two spots on the middle tiliiae tawnv ochraceous. 



Expanse : forewing AM 24 mm. ; EM 13 mm. ; I'M Ki mm. 



hind wing „ 16 „ ; „ 11 ,, ; „ 1:5 ,. 



1/a/j. Mpeta, Loangwa i{., northern affluent of the Zambesi H.; 16 (C. T. 

 Coryndon fey., November and December 1895). 



In pattern unlike every species hitherto described from Africa. 



11. Aegocera coryndoni Uothsch. s]). nov. 



?. UppCJ-tside: forewing maroon, but this colour much covered by grey (base 

 and outer margin) and maize-yellow (disc) scales ; with two white patches, one of 

 .j — mm. length in the middle of the wing between subcostal and submedian veiu, 

 not reaching this vein, nearly parallel and of about 2 mm. breadth in one specimen 

 ((>/pc), widened behind in the other : the secoml patch stands about li mm. beyond 

 the apex of the cell, is 4 mm. broad and .5 mm. long, and e.\j)auds between veins 3 

 and 10. Each patch is encircled by an olive band on a maroon ground, the edges of 

 which are here aud there marked by silvery scales, which form a conspicuous 

 silvery Hue in the basal third of the wing ; a spot in the middle of the cell, another 

 between median white patch and costa, a third between this patch and vein 1, aud 

 an arch on the discocellulars also composed of silvery scales. Fringe grey. 



Hindwiug orange-ochraceous ; outer border black, narrowing behind, ."i mm. 

 vdde at vein 7 and H mm. at vein 2, running down at costal margin half-way to 

 base. Fringe white, much shaded with black. 



Underside: forewing lilack ; basal sixth yellow ; basal half of inner margin 

 white: white jjatches as aboxe, median one merged together with the white area of 

 inner margin ; fringe white : outer margin somewhat grey. 



Hindwing as above, but l)lack liorder extending farther down the costal 

 margin ; fringe more white. 



Antennae scaled white above, scarcely thickened towards apex ( $ ). I'aljii, 

 head, and collar wax-yellow; first aud second joint of jialpi with a black spot, third 

 joint black with a few wax-yellow scales ; head with four black spots, one in the 

 middle of the front, the second between the antennae, aud the two others on the 

 occi]iut behind the eyes ; collar with seven black spots. Mesotborax grey; tegulae 

 with long whitish and maroon hairs, and a black baso-lateral spot. Metatliorax 

 orange-yellow, like the abdomen. The latter with the extreme ti]), {)art of the 

 underside, especially the underside of the ]>osterior segments, tii)s of the dorsal tufts 

 of hairs, and faint basal spots in the median line above, black. Underside of thorax 

 orange-yellow ; anterior coxae grev behind. Legs orauge-vellow, more or less 



