PAR.EGOCEEA. MIMEUSEMIA. 007 



i'34. Paraegocera confliiens. 



Mgoccm conflaens, Weyni. Stett. ent. Zeit. liii. p. lOU (1892). 

 Mgocera darocana, Druce, A. M. N. H. (0) xv. p. 42 (1895). 



Head and thorax deep chocolate-brown mi.Kcd with ochreous 

 white ; mid and hind tibia? mostly orange ; abdomen orange, the 

 dorsal tufts at base chocolate-brown and white, the anal tuft and 

 ventral surface towards extremity blackish. Fore wing deep 

 chocolate-brown : conjoined irregular ochreous-white patches at 

 base of costa, antemedial from middle of cell to vein ] , in and below 

 middle of cell and from below end of cell to inner margin ; a spot 

 in upper end of cell; two conjoined quadrate spots beyond the cell 

 on costa and between veins 3 and 5, and a terminal band narrowing 



Fig. 205. — Fartegocera confluens, (^ . \. 



to apex and tornus and with irregular inner edge ; a silvery-blue 

 antemedial line from costa to the patch in cell, bent outwards 

 from the cell to inner margin ; a discoidal liar and a diffused 

 subterminal line exeurved from costa to vein 2, then incurved and 

 expanding into a patch ; a fine black terminal line ; cilia pure 

 white, chequered with black. Hind wing orange, with black 

 terminal band narrowing from costa to a point at vein 1 and with 

 a slightly sinuous inner edge. Underside of fore wing orange except 

 the a])ical half. 



Hah. Zanzibar, type t $ in Coll. Weymer ; German E. Africa, 

 Lindi, 1 cT . Exp. 8(j millim. Type t darocana in Coll. Druce. 



Genus MIMEUSEMIA. 



Type. 

 Mimeiisemia, Butl. A. M. N. H. (4) xv. p. .'{97 (1875) ;w,sv'//;///.s. 



Proboscis fully developed ; palpi obliquely upturned, the 2iul joint fringed 

 with long hair in front, the ;3rd long, naked, porrect ; frons with truncate 

 conical prominence with raised rim at extrenn"ty ; antenna' almost sinii)lc, 

 distinctly dilated towards extremity; tibia nearly smoothly scaled: abdnmen 

 with dorsal crests on basal segments ; male with the claspcrs lar^e, and witii 

 lat(!ral tul'is of long hair from base, bore wing with vein ."5 from close to au'deot 

 cell; 5 I'rom above angle : (> from upper angle; 9 from 10 annstoniosing^vith 

 8 to loriu the areole, 7 IVoni the areole, rarely from beyond it: 11 from coll. 

 Hind wing with vein 2 from long before angle of cell ; 3, 4 from ainde • .'i 

 obsolescent from middle of discocellulars : (i, 7 from u]3per angle. 



