576 • phal^xoididj;. 



legs orange, the tibia? with black bands, the tarsi black ringed with 

 white ; abdomen orange with dorsal series of black spots towards 

 base and bands towards extremity. Fore wing dark chocolate- 

 brown ; a creamy white maculate stripe from base of costa to 

 submedian fold just before termen, formed by four spots, the 1st 

 spot elongate, its upper edge indented near base and angled in the 

 cell, the 2nd oblong, the 3rd bar-shaped, the 4th wedge-shaped ; 

 a rounded spot in end of cell; a broad oblique postmedial band 

 from costa to below vein 3, more or less narrowing at costa, its 

 lower extremity rounded on outer side and angled inwards on inner 

 side ; a patch of silvery scales below costa near base, a bar at middle 

 of cell and another below the extremity of the 1st spot of the fascia, 

 a curved striga on discocellulars, a few scales beyond the post- 

 medial band, a bar beyond the 3rd spot of the fascia, and some 

 irroration on termen ; cilia creamy white. Hind wing orange ; a 

 chocolate-brown discoidal bar and broad terminal band, its inner 

 edge excurved at middle and incurved at vein 2 ; cilia pale yellow. 

 Underside of fore wing with the base, costa, and inner area to 

 beyond middle orange. 



Hab. Congo, Katanga, Kambove (JSTeave), 1 c? , 1 $ ; Angola, 

 Kibokolo do Zombo (Lfwis), 1 J, Bihe, Pedreira (Ansorge), 1 6 , 

 co-type. Exp. 54 millim. 



128. iEgocera obliquisigna, insert (syn.) : — 



Mgocem kibvcesensis, Strand, Arch. Naturg. lxxv. i. 3, p. 367 (1909) 

 JEqocera lilncesensis, ab. sequipartita, Strand, Arch. Naturg. lxxv. i. 3, 

 p. 367 (1909). 



9 . Thorax and fore wing deep chocolate-brown, the latter with a 

 small creamy white bar in the cell, conjoined to the extremity of 

 the wedge-shaped patch below it ; hind wing orange, some blackish 

 above base of inner margin, a large black discoidal lunule, tin' 

 terminal area black; its inner edge sinuous and excurxed at middle, 

 cilia yellow; underside of fore wing dark brown, the basal area, 

 costal area to end of cell, a fascia below the cell to well beyond 

 middle, the spot in cell and oblique band orange ; hind wing 

 without the black above base of inner margin. 



ab. 1. (squipartita. Fore wing with the maculate fascia broader 

 and its medial spits equal in size. 



128a. iEgocera mesia. (Plate LXXI. fig. 18.) 



Metrophrys mesia, Jord. Soitz, Gr.-Schm. xv. Afr. ii. p. 19, pi. 4c (1911). 



'. Head white with some chocolate-brown at back; antennas 

 black, palpi dark brown fringed with yellow hair in front, the 3rd 

 joint white at base, black at tip; thorax dark chocolate-brown 

 with a white dorsal stripe ; pectus and legs orange-yellow, the fore 

 and mill tibia' black-brown above, the hind tibiae with blackish 

 band near extremity, the tarsi black ringed with white: abdomen 

 orange-yellow with dorsal series of slight black bars. Fore wing 



