Moths from East Africa. 377 



5 a. JEgocera triplagiata^ var. (?) n. clispar. 



Exp. 62 millim. 



Body smoky brown ; abdomen lighter ; front orbits and 

 several spots on the thorax white ; palpi porrect, the second 

 joint densely clotlied with hair beneath, the hairs black at the 

 base and orange below ; proboscis rufous ; front legs with 

 the tibiae densely clothed with orange hairs, except at the 

 base and tip ; middle tibia3 marked with orange above near 

 the base and at the middle; hind legs grey; all the tarsi 

 reddish beneath and the hind tibiaa with a pair of very strong 

 terminal spurs, and another long spine about the middle. 



Fore wings black, with three transverse white bands, the 

 first near the base, ampulliform, truncated above and rounded 

 below, running obliquely from above the subcostal nearly to 

 the submedian nervure ; the second stripe is shorter, truncated 

 above and below, and running between the subcostal nervure 

 and the point where the median nervure forks ; the third with 

 nearly parallel sides and extending obliquely from below the 

 costa nearly to the hinder angle ; there are some blue lines 

 between and beyond the white bands, more or less continued 

 towards the submedian nervure, especially that between the 

 two outer bands. Hind wings black, the base white to beyond 

 the middle and the fringes whitish. Underside nearly as 

 above; the freimlum reddish, very large, its apex lying below 

 a tuft of buff scales near the base of the inner margin of the 

 fore wings. 



There are more scattered blue and white scales on the 

 wings, but the specimens are not in perfect condition. 



Four specimens of this insect were taken at the same time 

 and place as j3^. tnplcigiata, which it resembles greatly, 

 except in colour, and of which it is in all probability a 

 dimorphic form. 



6. Protocercea Geraldi^ sp. n. (PI. XIX. fig. 3.) 



Exp. 33 millim. 



Male. — Head ar 

 and middle of thorax crested with white ; abdomen and 

 under surface orange-tawny ; abdomen with a raised crest at 

 the base above, and with tufts on the sides and at the extre- 

 mity ; antennae wanting ; front legs with black tarsi (the four 

 hind legs wanting). 



Fore wings deep red, costa blackish, fringes brown ; five 

 white spots, the first oblong, oblique, at the base of the costa ; 

 the second small, triangular, subcostal ; the third below it, 



