J3G0CERA. 



597 



extremity of 3rcl and antennae black ; tegulas with rufous and black 

 stripes ; edges of patagia and subdorsal stripes on thorax blue-black 

 and orange ; tibitc and tarsi orange, banded with black and white; 

 abdomen orange Avith dorsal series of black spots, the ventral 

 surface whitish. Fore wing dark brown, very thickly irrorated with 

 ochreous ; a metallic bluish spot below costa near base ; a creamy- 

 white fascia edged with ferruginous red from base along median 

 nervure and below vein G ending in a point just before termen, its 

 upper edge indented by the silvery and blue orbicular and reniform 

 spots and its lower edge bj' a spot before the triangular expansion 

 at end of cell, which extends to submedian fold ; an orange-red 

 terminal line; cilia blackish at base, whitish at tips. Hind wing 

 orange, ■svith red discoidal spot and terminal band, the latter expand- 

 ing widely on apical area and below vein 2 ; a terminal orange 

 line ; the cilia fuscous at base, whitish at tips. Underside of fore 

 Avang orange, the terminal area fuscous, indented by the wedge- 

 shaped spot which is orange. 



2 • Hind wing with the markings black. 



Bab. Abyssinia, Atbara, 2 cj" ; Br. E. Africa, Wadelai (Emin), 

 5 cJ , Port Ogowe (Johnston), 1 $ ; Ashanti, 1 J ; Niger E.., 

 Onitsha, 1 d , 1 $ , Sapele (Sampson), 1 S ; Lagos (Strahan), 1 S , 

 1 $ ; CoxGO, 2 c? , 2 $ ; Angola, Kinsembo, 1 $ . Exp. 38-44 

 millira. 



Ill), .ffigocera venulia. 



Noctua mnulia. Cram. Pap. Exot. ii. pi. 16'), D (1777); Boisd. Mon. Zyg. 

 p. 13, pi. 1. f . 3 ; Moore, Lep. Ceyl. ii. p. 32, pi. 94. f. 1 ; Hinpsn. 

 Moths Ind. ii. p. 158 ; Kirby, Cat. Het. p. 36. 



Head white ; palpi with patch of brown and black at side of 

 2nd joint, the extremity of i^rd joint black ; sides of frons and 

 antennas black ; thorax white, with brown stripes on tegulaB, the 

 edges of patagia and subdorsal stripes on thorax blackish and orange; 



Fig. 2()1. — J<lgocera venulia, <^. j. 

 (From Moths Ind. vol. ii.) 



tibiie and tarsi orange, liandcd with black and white; abdomen 

 orange, with dorsal series of black spots, the ventral surface whitish. 

 Fore wing dark brown thickly irrorated with ochrcous ; a creamy- 

 white fascia from base throngh the cell to near termen below vein 6, 



