268 [May. 



me." No. 2 evidently replied, " No, I shall not, what have you to do 

 with me ?" No. 1 : " You will have to come." No. 2 : " If I must 

 come, you will have to carry me." A very slight resistance would 

 follow, when No. 2 would turn over on its back, be immediately seized 

 by No. 1, who would at once return towards the large formicarium ; this 

 was repeated almost every minute in the path which led through the 

 wood, whicb No. 2 had to cross to get to its home, the struggle was 

 carried on for many yards in the wood among the undergrowth, where- 

 ever the worker of No. 2 could be found. How long the battle lasted 

 I know not, I watched them about an hour, but before my departure 

 I boxed about a dozen of the amazons and their prisoners, and sent 

 half of them to the late Mr. F. Smith, who pronounced them all to be 

 without doubt Formica riifa. 



7, Clarence Place, Stonehouse, Plymouth : 

 8th April, 1880. 



DESCRIPTIONS OF NEW SPECIES OF HETEROCERA FROM WEST 



AFRICA. 



BY HEEBEET DEUCE, F.L.S. 



SPHINGIDiE. 

 Basiana Hoenimani. 



Pale ochraoeous. Palpi, head, thorax, and abdomen brown. Fore-wings crossed 

 by numerous indistinct waved brown bands. A broad silver-greyish band crossing 

 from the costal margin beyond the middle to near the anal angle. Hind-wings red- 

 dish-brown. Under-side pale yellow : both wings crossed by two reddish-brown 

 waved bands speckled with whitish scales. Exp. 6.^ in. 



Hab. : Mongo-ma Lobah (G. Thomson). 

 In colls. F. J. Horniman and H. Druce. 



AGAEISTID^. 



EUSEMIA GEANDIS. 



Black. Head, thorax, and abdomen black. Fore-wings with a minute white 

 spot at the base and crossed by two bands of pale yellow ; the first from the end of 

 the cell, but not i-eaching the costal margin, the second beyond, nearer the apex, both 

 bands are intersected by the black nervules dividing the first band into two, and the 

 second into four spots. The fringe at the apex white. Under-side the same as 

 above. Hind-wings black, tlie fringe white. Under-side bright red, with the 

 margins broadly black. Exp. 4 in. 



Hab. : Mongo-ma Lobah (Gr. Thomson). 



In colls. F. J. Horniman and H. Druce. 



Allied to Eusemia ^_^/7'ws, Her.-ISchiiff., differing from it in having 

 a double band on the fore-wing, and wanting the white bands on the 

 hind-wing. 



