On some new Species of Heterocera. 465 



lineate fascia}, the two outer much waved ; both wings with 

 a distinct paler marginal fringe inwardly darkly delineated. 



? . Anterior wings with three distinct, oblique, lineate, 

 fuscous fascia?, about equally separated ; outer marginal fringe 

 as in male. 



Exp. wings, r? 34, ? 50 millim. 



Bab. Transvaal, Lydenburg District (Pret. Mas. and coll. 

 Di'st.). 



In 1897 I described a new species of Taragama (T. mi- 

 rabilis) in which, having before me then only single male and 

 female specimens, I considered the sexes to widely diverge. 

 I have since been able to examine a male altogether agreeing 

 with the female described, and it is thus evident there are two 

 distinct species. 



Ta rag a m a mirab ills . 



Taragama mirabilis c? , Dist. Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. ser. 6, vol. xx. 

 p. 208 (1897). 



Transvaal, Lydenburg District [coll. Dist.). 



Taragama cuprea, sp. n. 



Taragama mirabilis 5, Dist. Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. ser. 6, vol. xx. 

 p. 208 (1897). 



Male resembling female ; posterior wings a little paler. 



Exp. wings, <£ 42 millim. 



Hab. Transvaal, Lydenburg District (Pret. Mas.). 



LXIII. — Descriptions of some new Species of Heterocera from 

 Tropical America, Africa, India, and the Eastern Islands. 

 By Herbert Druce, F.L.S. &c. 



Fam. Arctiidae. 

 Mttaxanthia vespiformis, sp. n. 



Female. — Head, antennas, thorax, tegulse, the basal half of 

 the abdomen, and the legs all black ; the anal half of the 

 abdomen chrome-yellow. Primaries smoky hyaline black, 

 darkest at the base and on the costal margin ; the veins all 

 black : secondaries whitish hyaline, dusky at the apex and 

 round the outer margin to the anal angle ; the veins black. 



Expanse 1^- inch. 



Hab. Amazons, Villa Nova (Bates, in Mas. Oxford). 



