190 Oil Moths in the Joicey Collection. 



from Ceylon and S. India. Antennal ciliation slightly 

 longer. Hind leg formed nearly as in cleoraria, Walk., and 

 its form (?) effrenata^ Walk, (both wrongly sunk by Hampson 

 \\\\i\QX jibulata), i. e., with the tarsus relatively much shorter 

 than in fibulata, less than one-half as long as the tibia. A 

 lar-ic tuft of rather glossy, distaily darkened hair at base of 

 abdomen beneath. Fore wing with the irroration rather 

 less black than in fibulata, median shade not very diffuse, 

 postmedian line rather less sharply angnlated at R\ terminal 

 line not continuous, not running round apex. 



Khasia Hills, type {Xissanj) ; paratype in coll. British 

 ^Iiiseum. 



Smaller than cleoraria and effrenata, antennal joints less 

 projecting, the tuft at base of abdomen distinctive. 



Family .ffigeriidae. 



Subfamily ^gesiixm. 



39. Homogyna spadicicorpus, sp. n. 



S . — 25 mm. 



Face black in middle, white at sides. Palpus with first 

 joint black ; second joint above and beneath mostly white, 

 the fringes of hair on both sides black ; third joint mostly 

 white. Postorbital rim white. Vertex light ochreous- 

 brown. Thorax above glossy black, with slight blue reflec- 

 tions and with a narrow band of light blue in front ; a 

 large red shoulder-spot, in certain lights sliot with violet. 

 Abdomen above bright chestnut (in some lights with slight 

 violet reflections), the segments narrowly ringed with black 

 anteriorly, with whitish posteriorly : underside as far as the 

 third sternite black with blue reflections, fourth sternite 

 white, fifth to seventh white with anterior black border; 

 anal tuft above blue-black, beneath orange-ochreous. Legs 

 black with blue gloss, the fore coxa, hair-tufts, spurs, and 

 narrow rings at ends of tarsal joints predominantly white. 



Fore wing black, in some lights brown-black, in some 

 lights with bluish or greenish gloss, especially along the 

 margins. 



Hind wing vitreous, the veins, cell-mark, costal and distal 

 margins, and fringes concolorous Avith fore wing. 



Source of Karungu River, N.E. Rhodesia, December 1916 

 {S. A. Barns). 



Nearest to sanguicosta and alhicincta, Hmpsn. 



