258 Mr. G. T. Bethune-Baker on 



Lasiocampidse. 

 Taragama rufaria^ sp. n. 



$ . Palpi rufous below, with the extremities ot hairs tipped 

 with deep yellow, grey above ; head and collar grey ; an- 

 tennae rufous ; thorax rufous, with patagise deep rusty red. 

 edged finely with grey ; abdomen rufous on the dorsum . 

 ventral surface grey. Primaries dark rufous grey, with , 

 small white basal spot, followed by an oblong spot or broa 

 dash of orange rusty red, intersected near its outer edge b 

 the fine white antemedian line, which line is nearly erect t 

 the cell, where it is interrupted, and is continued at the em 

 of the cell upwards in a slight curve to the costa. In th 

 male this line might be construed into an antemedian ant 

 median line on account of the difference of the position of the 

 two parts, but the female insect shows it to be one, ven 

 strongly angled outwards. Postmedian line fine, white 

 strongly angled outwards in the fold to above vein 3, fron 

 where it is angled and waved to the costa not far from tin 

 apex ; a small rusty orange-red patch at the end of the cell 

 beyond which the wing is dark reddish brown to the post- 

 median line between vein 3 and the costa; fringes grey 

 Secondaries uniform rufous brown, with pale grey fringes. 



? . Like the male, but with the abdomen dirty creamy 

 grey, the primaries paler and redder, the white lines more 

 distinct, and a subterminal irregular row of obscure inter- 

 nervular red spots just outside white postmedian line : 

 secondaries pale pinki.sh buff, with an obscure, white, trans- 

 verse, oblique band. 



Expanse, ^ 42, ? 82 mm. 



Ilab. Fort Jameson, N.E. Rhodesia. 



Types in my collection. 



Near T. polydora, Druce. 



Metanastriajamesoni, sp. n. 



<J . Palpi very dark purplish brown, nearly blackish ; head 

 chocolate-brown ; antennse greyish brown, pectinations very 

 long, tapering gradually to the tip ; thorax rich chocolate- 

 brown, with a small cream-coloured very short tuft on the 

 metathorax, so short as to appear little more than a spot ; 

 abdomen yellowish cream-colour, the breast and the whole 

 ventral surface chocolate-brown. Primaries rich chocolate- 

 brown, with a somewhat pale, waved, oblique postmedial 

 line, the area on the basal side of this line being much daiker 

 than that beyond ; a whitish dot in the cell : secondaries 







