BURGENA.— ^GOCERA. 11 



whitish. Head and thorax black-brown, spotted with white ; abdomen shining brown, banded 

 with testaceous. Expanse of wings 2 inches 1 line. 

 Bab. — ? 



BURGENA, Walker. 



Burgena varia. (Plate IV. fig. 1.) 



Damias varia, Walker, Cat. Lep. Ilet. i. p. 15. n. 4 (1854). 



Black ; head and palpi streaked with white ; collar and margins of tcguke testaceous ; 

 abdomen banded with ochrcous : primaries with an elongated ochreous spot near the base ; 

 three central white spots in the form of a triangle : secondaries crossed by an irregular narrow 

 orange band. Expanse of wings 1 inch 8 to ] 1 lines. 



Australia, Richmond river. 



B. varia, B. transdueta, and B. educta chiefly differ in the width of the orange band of 

 secondaries. 



-EGOCERA, Latreille. 



JEgocera bimacula. (Plate V. fig. 4.) 



^Egocera bimacula, Walker, Cat. Lep. Het. i. p. 57. n. 5 (1854). 



Primaries chocolate-brown, irrorated with grey ; a large cuneiform patch, with its apex at 

 the base of the wing (interrupted in front by two blackish spots, and behind by one, with 

 plumbagineous centres) and an oblique band beyond the middle pale yellow ; a very irregular 

 purplish red band partially enclosing the yellow markings ; outer border purplish red, edged 

 with ochreous ; fringe brown internally, whitish externally : secondaries orange, with two 

 large central rounded black spots ; a broad submarginal irregular dark brown band ; a slender 

 deep red marginal line. Head and thorax chocolate-brown, varied with pale yellow ; abdomen 

 orange, spotted with black. Wings below paler than above ; costa of primaries ochraceous, 

 the same colour replacing the pale yellow markings. Expanse of wings 2 inches. 



North India. 



iEgocera latreillii. (Plate V. fig. 8.) 



jEgocera latreillii, Herrich-Seliiiffer, Aussl. ScJimett. i. pi. 5. fig. 19. 

 iEgocera magna, Walker, Cat. Lep. Het. i. p. 56. n. 3 (1854). 



Primaries reddish chocolate, sparsely irrorated with grey; costa and inner margin black- 

 brown ; a spot in the cell, a macular interno-median longitudinal streak, and a postmedian 

 band pale yellow ; several plumbagineous lines between the yellow markings ; outer margin 

 narrowly dark brown ; fringe ochreous : secondaries orange, with a large spot at the end of 

 the cell, and a rather broad submarginal dark brown border. Thorax reddish chocolate, varied 

 with pale yellow : abdomen orange. Wings below paler ; primaries with the margins and 

 markings ochreous. Expanse of wings 1 inch 11 lines to 2 inches 1 line. 



Sierra Leone (Foxcroft fy Morgan). 



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