On some new Species of FTeterocera. 465 



llneate fascia), the two outer much waved ; both wings with 

 a distinct paler nuu\i,nnal fringe inwardly darkly delineated. 



? . Anterior wings with three distinct, oblique, lineate, 

 fuscous fascia?, about equally separated ; outer marginal fringe 

 as in male. 



Exp. wings, (^ 34, ? 50 millim. 



Bah. Transvaal, Lydenburg District {Pret. Mas. and coll. 

 Dist.). 



In 1897 I described a new species of Taragama [T. mi- 

 rahilis) in which, having before me then only single male and 

 female specimens, I considered the sexes to widely diverge. 

 I have since been able to examine a male altogether agree in >• 

 with the female described, and it is thus evident there are two 

 distinct species. 



Tara(jaina mirahilis. 



Taragama inirabilis <^ , Dist. Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. ser. 6, vol. xx. 

 p. 208 (1897). 



Transvaal, Lydenburg District {coll. Dist.). 



Taragama cuprea, sp. n. 



Taragama mirahilis $, Dist. Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. ser. 6, vol. xx. 

 p. 208 (1897). 



Male resembling female ; posterior wings a little paler. 



Exp. wings, (J 42 millim. 



Hab. Transvaal, Lydenburg District {Pret. Mus.). 



LXIIL — Descriptions of some new Species of Heterocera from 

 Tropical America^ Africa, India, and the Eastern Islands. 

 By Herbert DrucEj F.L.S. &c. 



Fam. Arctiidae. 

 Metaxanthia vespiformis, sp. n. 



Female. — Head, antennae, thorax, tegulce, the basal half of 

 the abdomen, and the legs all black ; the anal half of the 

 abdomen chrome-yellow. Primaries smoky hyaline black, 

 daikest at the base and on the costal margin ; the veins all 

 black: secondaries whitish hyaline, dusky at the apex and 

 round the outer margin to the anal angle ; the veins black. 



Expanse IfV inch. 



Hah. Amazons, Villa Nova {Bates, in Mus. Oxford). 



