Centra and Species o/Agaristitlae. -113 



streaked with fuscous ; abdotueu pink, with lateral and sul)- 

 latcral series ol" sinail bhick spots. Fore winj.^ red-brown, 

 the cell and the disk bevH)nd ami below it seuiihyalinc, a 

 black point itt base of costa and two iu cell, lliud wing 

 seiuihyaline, the veins, costal ami terminal areas pale reddish 

 brown, the inner margin i)ale pinkish ; cilia pale. 



Huh. S. Nigeria, Old Calabar {Crumpton) , 1 <$ type. 

 Ed-p. 5-1 mm. 



Agaristidae. 

 82 «. Polacanthopoda humphreyi, sp. u. 



(J. Head black, white at side; palpi white at base, the 

 extremity of second joint and base of third white; anteuuje 

 with the shaft white above ; thorax deep chocolate-red with 

 the dorsum black, the tegulre with white stripes, the thorax 

 with white dorsal streak, the patagia with white stripes and 

 orange hair on upper edge ; jjcetus orange with some wdiite 

 at neck ; fore legs black with orange streaks on femora and 

 tibiae, the latter fringed with white on outer side, the mid 

 and hind legs orange, the mid tibise with black spots near 

 base and extremity and Avhite ring at extremity, the hind 

 tibi3e with black spot near extremity and white ring at extre- 

 mity, the tarsi black ; abdomen orange with black dorsal 

 stripe and some silvery scales in the crests, a black seg- 

 mental line on fourth segment, the three terminal segments 

 black ringed with white, the ventral surface with the four 

 terminal segments black with patches of white. Fore wing 

 deep ehocolate-rcd, the costal area blackish to beyond middle, 

 the terminal ai'ca redder; a silvery streak on base of vein 1 ; 

 an oblique white striga from base of costa ; a very oblique 

 sul)basal yellowish- white line from costa to submcdian fold, 

 Avith silvery spot before it below costa and line from cell to 

 vein 1 ; an oblique white line irrorated with black from 

 below costa before middle to below middle of cell, with 

 silvery mark below it above vein 1 ; some silver below ante- 

 medial part of costa and an oblique bar across middle of cell ; 

 an oblique white bar across end of cell; a silvery diseoidal 

 bar with some silver above it below costa, a yellowish spot 

 below vein 2 and silver striga at inner margin ; an oblique 

 postmedial series of white streaks irrorated with black in the 

 interspaces from costa to vein 3, then white irroration to 

 inner margin with a silvery line before it, followed by an 

 obliq>ue white line from costa to vein 2, and dentate between 

 the streaks towards its lower extremity, then by a silvery 

 liae from costa to vein 4; a subterminal series of slight 



