28 Lord Walsingham's monogra'ph of the genera 



" Dark purplish cupreous. Head beneath and sides of the 

 thorax pale gilded yellow. Abdomen gilded red, with a purplish 

 cupreous spot near the base, which is gilded ; a purplish cupreous 

 subapical band ; tip and under side gilded. Hind wings gilded ; 

 costa and fringe red, the latter blackish cupreous towards the tip. 

 Length of the body, 2f lines ; of the wings, 5^ lines (= 12 mm.). 



" E. divisella, var. ? 



" a. Port Natal. From M. Gueinzius' collection, 

 b. South Africa. From Mr. Argent's collection." 



Type, <y ? , B. M. 



[PL vi., fig. 11.] 

 carteri, n. s. 



Alae anticae unicolores, subnitidae, viride-purpuriae, ciliis fuscis. 

 Alae posticse cupreae, ciliis ante medium coccineis, post medium 

 fuscis. Abdomine coccineo, macula basali purpureo, apicali nigro. 

 Capite, antennis, thorace, et tibiis purpureo-fuscis. 



AntenncB purplish fuscous. Palpi purplish fuscous, yellowish 

 at the base externally. Head purplish fuscous. Thorax greenish, 

 or purplish fuscous above, bright ochreous beneath. Fore wings 

 glossy green, or purplish; cilia fuscous. Under side brownish 

 fuscous, tinged with purplish, a slight ochreous streak from the 

 base reachmg nearly half-way along the costal margin. Hind 

 wings coppery brown ; cilia before the middle carniine, beyond it 

 dark fuscous. Under side carmine ; cilia fuscous, excej)t at the 

 base of the abdominal margin. Abdomen brilliant carmine, tinged 

 with ochreous about the basal portion, a patch at the base rich 

 purple, and the anal segments black fringed with carmine. Under 

 side ochreous. Legs dark purplish fuscous. Exp. al. 12 mm. 



Hah. Bathurst {Mr. G. T. Carter). 



Type, (? , Mus. Wlsm. 



One of my three specimens from Bathurst, collected 

 by Mr. G. T. Carter, has the anal segments entirely 

 carmine, without any black whatever. 



[PI. vi., fig. 12.] 



derogatella, Wlk., Cat. Lp. Ins. B. M., XXIX., 834 



(1864).* 

 " (^ . Cuprea ; caput subtus pectorisque latera aurato-flava ; 

 abdomen aui'ato-flavum, apice nigrum ; alae posticae auratae. 



* ^fuscipennis, Z., var. b. {ante, pp. 2G — 7). 



