^GOCER.V. ASTEROPETES. 005" 



131. JEgocera obrysos. (I'late LIII. fig. 2.) 



Eusemia obri/sos, Mab. UuU. Soc. Zool. Fr. iii. p. 81) (1878) ; Kirby, Cat. 

 Het. p. 37. 



2 . Head black ; palpi at base and extremity of 2nd joint orange ; 

 frons with lateral orange spots below the prominence, a band above 

 it and another on vertex of head ; tegulie black, orange at sides 

 and middle ; thorax chocolate strongly irrorated with Avhite ; pectus 

 and legs orange, the fore and mid libia^ banded with black, the 

 tarsi rufous irrorated with white ; abdomen orange. Fore wing 

 chocolate, strongly irrorated with white and black ; a white band 

 with sinuous edges across end of cell from subcostal nervure to sub- 

 median fold ; a similar band beyond the cell between veins 8 and 'A ; 

 cilia white towards apex and tornus. Hind wing orange, with 

 terminal black band very wide at costa, narrowing to tornus, its 

 inner edge angled inwards on vein 2 ; cilia white at apex and 

 middle. 



Hab. Madagascar, Betsileo {Cowan), 1 2 • Kvp. 52 millim. 



*i32. .ffigocera coryiidoni. (Plate LIII. fig. 14.) 



Mgocera coryndoni, Eotlis. Nov. Zool. iii. p. 96 (1896). 

 Myoceropsis separata, Weymer, Berl. ent. Zeit. 1896, p. 87. 



5 . Head and tegulae yellow, the 1st and 2nd joints of palpi 

 with black spots, the 3rd joint black with a few yellow scales ; 

 black spots on frons, between antenua3, and two on vertex of head ; 

 antenna- black, with white scales above ; tegula-- with seven black 

 spots; patagia wi til whitish and chocolate hair and black spot on 

 shoulders ; mesothorax grey, metathorax orange ; pectus and legs 

 orange, tore coxa) grey behind, the tarsi black and orange ; abdomen 

 orange, with the dorsal crests, anal tuft, and ventral bands on 

 terminal segments black. Fore wing chocolate, the basal and 

 terminal areas tinged with grey, the disk with ochreous ; a medial 

 white band from below costa to submedian fold expanding below, 

 and a similar band beyond the cell between veins 8 and 3, each 

 patch with an olive line round it with silvery scales at its edges ; 

 silvery spots in middle of cell above and below medial band and a 

 discoidal bar ; cilia grey. Hind wing orange, with terminal black 

 band 5 millim. in width at vein l-^-h at vein 2; cilia white mixed 

 with black. 



Hah. (iioKJi. E. Africa, Tanga ; Zambesi, Loangwa II. {Coryndon). 

 Earp. 54 millim. This species is unknown to me, the types are 

 lost; figured from a drawing sent mc Ity Herr Weymer from his 

 type separata. 



Genus ASTEROPETES, nov. 



Type, A. noctuina. 



Proboscis i'lilly developed ; palpi upturned, fringed with long liair, tlio .Srd 

 joint, long, naked, dilated at extremity and i)()i'ret't ; frons wiili beak-like tri- 

 angular i)roniinence; head and thorax clothed with long hair ; anteniite almost 

 Bimple, hardly dilated beyond middle ; tibiaj fringed with long hair ; abilouieu 



