644 AGAEISTID^. 



J . With the lateral aual tufts orange ; fore wing with the band 

 less bent inwards towards costa ; hind wing with the band rather 

 broader and not angled. , r. ■,, -o ^, ti. 



Hah. Old Calabar, type f $ anyushfasem m Coll. Rothschild, 

 Cape Coast : 1 $ without locality. Exp., 6 54, $ 60 millim. 



192. Massaga monteirona. (Plate LIV. fig. 6.) 



Massaga monteirona, Eutl. Cist. Ent. i. p. 216 (1874) ; Kirby, Cat. Het. 



Eusemia metalUca, Slab. Bull. Soc. Zool. Fr. iii. p. 88 (1878j ; Kirby, Cat. 

 Het. p. 33. 



J. Black shot with blue; head, tegultp, pectus in front, fore 

 coxee, and femora crimson; 3rd joint of palpi, frontal prominence, 

 and antennfe black ; abdomen with ventral yellow band on terraimil 

 .segment and oblique bauds on underside of claspers. Fore wing 

 with the veins streaked with metallic blue-green ; a diffused 

 obsolescent metallic greenish band just beyond the cell. Hind wing 

 more distinctly shot with blue, and with a postmedial series of short 

 streaks on the veins ; underside with the streaks on the veins 

 o-reenish yellow and extending more towards both base and termen, 

 on inner area becoming a large patch extending to near tornus. 



Hah. Congo ; Angola, Ambriz, Cabinda {Mrs. Monteiro), 2 S 

 type. Exp. 60 millim. 



Genus MASSAGIDIA, nov. 



Type, M. hesparia. 



Proboscis fully developed ; palpi with the 2nd joint obliquely upturned and 

 frin'^ed with hair, the ord porrect, short in male, long in female ; frons witii 

 truncate conical prominence with raised rim at extremity; antennae nearly 

 simple, distinctly dilated towards extremity ; hind tibia} fringed with hair above; 

 abdomen smoothly scaled. Fore wing with vein 3 from close to angle of cell ; 

 5 from well above angle, the discocellulars incurved above it ; 6 from upper 

 an^le; 9 from 10 anastomosing with 8 to form the areole, 7 from beyond the 

 areole'; 11 from cell. Hind wing with vein 2 from well before angle of cell; 

 3, 4 from angle ; 5 obsolescent from middle of discocellulars ; 6, 7 from upper 

 angle. 



193. Massagidia hesparia. 



Geometra hesparia. Cram. Pap. Exot. i. pi. .56, C (1775); Kirby, Cat. Het. 



p. 33. 

 Massaga delicia, Butl. P. Z. S. 1868, p. 224, pi. 17. f. 2, c? ; Kirby, Cat. 



Het. p. 33. 

 Massaga demena, Druce, A. M. N. H. (6) xiv. p. 23 (1894), 2 . 



S . Head, tegulte, fore coxae, and femora crimson; 3rd joint of palpi, 

 frontal prominence, and antennae black ; abdomen with a segmental 

 band on terminal segment and the anal tuft crimson ; wings shot 

 with brilliant blue. Fore wing with the veins streaked with 

 metallic blue ; a medial white band not quite reaching costa, its 

 inner edge slightly curved, its outer strongly dilated and angled 

 outwards beyond lower angle of cell ; cilia white at apex. Hind 



