68 Lloyd's natural history 



Southern Africa is peculiarly rich in curious and interesting 

 forms of Agaristidce, several of which we have already men- 

 tioned. Pais is a small genus, having considerable resem- 

 blance to ^gocera, but is very differently coloured, having the 

 fore-wings edged with a black line, and the centre filled up 

 with red and yellow, black-bordered spots and markings ; the 

 hind-wings are reddish, with indistinct yellowish markings; 

 the fringes are yellow, spotted or tipped with black. 



PAIS GORDONL 

 {Plate LXX VII. Fig. t,.) 

 Pais gordoni, Butler, Entomologist's Monthly Magazine, xvi. 

 p. lo (1879). 



This species was taken by Miss J. K. Lorimer at the Gor- 

 don Mission, on the Tugela River, South Africa. The fore- 

 wings are yellow, with numerous transverse and interlacing 

 black lines and loops, some of which enclose yellow spaces 

 centred with black. A red transverse stripe runs from the 

 base below the middle of the wing for half its length, and 

 there is a transverse red stripe, curved inwards, at about three- 

 quarters of the length of the wing, beyond which the broadly- 

 black nervures and terminal line enclose long yellow spots ; 

 fringes yellow, tipped with black. Hind-wings brick-red, with 

 indistinct yellow markings in the centre, and a more distinct 

 row of round yellow spots within the black terminal line. 

 The basal half of the fringes is black, and the terminal half 

 yellow. Head and thorax black, spotted and striped with 

 yellow ; abdomen yellow, broadly belted with black ; legs 

 black, banded with yellow. 



GENUS BURGENA. 

 Burgejia, Walker, List Lepid. Ins. Brit. Mus. xxxi. p. 55 

 (1864). 



