■~>i2 PHALJEXOIDID-E. 



*lli b. Pais ansorgei. (Plate LXXT. fig. 20.) 



Pots ansorgei, id. Nov. Zool. xi. p. 445 (1904) ; id. Seitz, Gr.-Schm. 

 xv. Afr. ii. p. 12, pi. 4a. 



3 . Head orange ; palpi with the extremity of 2nd joint, the 3rd 

 joint, frontal prominence, and antennae black; thorax black with 

 yellowish spots on tegulse and shoulders and streaks on patagia and 

 thorax ; pectus orange-yellow, legs orange-yellow and black ; abdo- 

 men orange-yellow with black segmental lines expanding dorsally. 

 Fore wing flesh-red ; the base of costal area black with a pale spot 

 followed by sojne silvery blue scales ; the medial part of costa 

 irrorated with black; vein 1 streaked with black and with two 

 antemedial bars from it to inner margin ; a black bar across middle 

 of cell with silvery blue spots on it in cell and on median nervure ; 

 a black discoidal bar with silvery blue centre, constricted at 

 middle ; postmedial line black, slightly excurved and somewhat 

 angled inwards at discal fold with a silvery blue line just beyond it 

 with black streaks on the veins from it to the terminal black line ; 

 cilia black with brownish tips. Hind wing flesh-red with a blackish 

 streak on basal half of vein 1 ; a small elliptical black discoidal 

 spot ; a curved black subterminal line slightly angled inwards at 

 vein 2 and diffused to termen towards tornus, with black streaks 

 on the veins between it and the terminal black line ; cilia black at 

 base, ochreous white at tips. 



Hob. Angola, Bula Matenga (Ansoiye), type t d in Coll. 

 Rothschild. Exp. 50 millim. 



Genus AP^GOCERA. 



Type. 

 Apsegocera, Hmpsn. A. M. N. H. (7) xv. p. 449 (1905) ... argyrogramma. 



Proboscis fully developed ; palpi upturned, the 2nd joint fringed with long- 

 hair in fvont forming' a pointed tuft at extremity, the 3rd long, porrect, 

 dilated at extremity ; frons -with trnncate conical prominence with raised 

 rim ; eyes smooth ; antennas moderately dilated towards extremity ; tibiae 

 nearly smooth and without spines ; abdomen with dorsal crests on basal 

 segments. Fore wing with vein 3 from towards angle of cell ; 5 from well 

 above angle ; 6 from upper angle ; 9, 10 anastomosing with 8 to form the 

 areole ; 11 from cell. Hind wing with vein 2 from near angle of cell; 

 3, 4 from angle ; 5 obsolescent from middle of discocellulars ; 6, 7 from upper 

 angle ; 8 anastomosing with the cell near base only. 



In key differs from Massaga in the abdomen having crests on basal 



Moments, 



Ill c. Apaegocera argyrogramma. 



Apxgocera argyrogramma, Hmpsn. A.M. N. H. (7) xv. p. 449 (1905); 

 Jord. Seitz, Gr.-Schm. xv. Afr. ii. pi. 4 a. 



S- Head and thorax black; palpi witli some white at extremity 

 of 1st and 2nd joints; sides of Erons white; bark of head, tegulse, 

 patagia, pro-, meso-, and metathorax with paired white spots, 

 patagia fringed with fulvous; abdomen black with white seg- 

 mental lines, the first three segments fulvous with the dorsal crests 



