244 LLOYDS NATURAL HISTORY. 



Moths, p. 224, pi. 30, fig. I (1S41); Walker, List Lepid. 

 Ins. Brit. Mus. xxiv. p. 1147, ^^o- ^ (1862). 

 Argyrophora equestrinaria, Guenee, Spec. Ge'n. L^pid. Uran. 

 et Phal. ii. p. 232 (1S57). 



This Moth is found at the Cape of Good Hope. It expands 

 a little over an inch. 



The head and thorax are pea-green. The fore-wings are also 

 pea-green, with numerous silvery-white, more or less confluent, 

 lines and spots ; three of these are close to the base of the 

 wing, and are succeeded by a deeply angulated line. The 

 central area of the wing is marked with from eight to ten white 

 spots, the middle ones being elongated, and corresponding with 

 the position of the branches of the median nervure ; then 

 follows an oblique white sub-marginal line, strongly angulated 

 in the middle, running from the apex to the inner margin of 

 the wing, and sending out, on its outer side, eight straight 

 branches which reach to the hind margin of the wing. The 

 head, body, and hind-wings are silvery-white, slightly shaded 

 with brown. 



DICHROMA HISTRIONALIS. 

 (Fiate CL.,fig. 2.) 

 Dichroma histrionalis^ Westwood, in Jardine's Nat. Libr. Exot. 

 Moths, p. 227, pi. 30, fig. 2 (1841); Walker, List Lepid. 

 Ins. Brit. Mus. xxiv. p. 1146, no. 8 (1862). 

 Argyrophora htstrwnaria, Guenee, Spec. Gen. Lepid. Uran. 

 et Phal. ii. p. 232 (1857). 

 This species is also found at the Cape of Good tlope. It 

 expands about an inch. 



The head is white, with a fulvous patch on the vertex ; the 

 thorax white, varied with fulvous. The fore-wings are of a 

 beautiful golden fulvous tint, adorned with a number of silvery- 

 white marks, which are strongly relieved by being bordered 



