436 Colonel C. Svvinhoe's Revision of the 



PiRGA MAGNA, nOV. 



$, 5- Palpi, frons, antennae, head, "and body deep black, collar 

 golden-orange ; all the markings on the body of the same colour ; a 

 tuft on each side of the thorax, a band behind, and segmental bands 

 on the abdomen ending on each side in bright orange-red spots, 

 joined together on the abdomen below by thin orange-red lines ; 

 wings nearly hyaline, the veins dark brown ; fore-wings pale blackish ; 

 a sordid white sub-costal streak from the base ; the interior third of 

 the interno-median space of the same colour ; hind-wings sordid 

 white, with the outer third pale blackish narrowing hindwards ; 

 under-side of body and legs black ; wings as above. 



Expanse of wings ^ 2-/^, $ 3 inches. 



Hah. KiKUYU, British E. Africa {Crmvshay). 



Genus Marbla, nov. 



Antennte bipectinated to the tips, branches of male long, of female 

 a little less than half the length of the male, minutely ciliated, each 

 branch with two long and one short spine at its end ; palpi long and 

 porrect, last joint very short and blunt; fore-wings with the costa 

 bent at the base, otherwise nearly straight ; apex rather produced but 

 rounded ; outer margin slightly curved, two-thirds length of costa ; 

 hinder margin of the male much rounded, of the female nearly 

 •straight ; discoidal bent inwards in its centre, vein 2 from one-third 

 before end of cell, 3 from before end, 4 and 5 from end, 6 from a 

 little below upper end, 7 and 8 on a long stalk from upper end of 

 cell, 9 and 10 also on a long stalk arising from a little before the end, 

 11 from one-third before end ; hind- wings with the lower end of the 

 discoidal square and slightly projected, vein 2 from a little beyond 

 middle of cell, 3 from before end, 4 from the end, 5 from a little 

 above, 6 and 7 from the upper end. 



Type M. divisa, Walker {Eloria). 



Marbla divisa. 



Moria divisa, Walker, iv, 815 (1855). 

 Hylemera tencra, Holland, Ent. News Phil., iv, p. Gl, pi. 3, 

 f. 7 (1893). 



Walker's type, a male, has no locality ; but there are 

 two male and seven female examples, the same as type, 

 from Sierra Leone and Lagos : Holland's description and 

 iigure fits this species very v^^ell. 



