12 AGAEISTID.E. — ZYGJEKIDM. 



iEgocera fervida. (Plate V. fig. 1.) 

 iEgocera fervida, Waller, Cat. Lep. Ilet. i. p. 57. n. 4 (1854). 



Primaries lighter or darker purplish brown, irrorated with grey ; costal margin and 

 fringe cream-colour ; an interno-median longitudinal band and an oblique transverse post- 

 median band cream-colour : secondaries orange, a black or red-brown elongate spot on the 

 discocellular nervures, and a broad slightly irregular marginal border of the same colour ; 

 fringe ochreous. Head aud thorax black-brown, with a central longitudinal cream-coloured 

 streak; abdomen orange, with a dorsal row of black spots; below paler; base, costa, and 

 bauds of primaries ochreous : secondaries with the outer border ferruginous, becoming darker 

 at anal angle. Pectus ochreous ; venter white, with lateral black dots. Expanse of wiugs 

 1 inch 10 lines to 2 inches 2 lines. 



Natal (Gueinzius) , South Africa (Sir A. Smith). 



The reddish-bordered form is simply a variety occurring with the typical form at Natal. 



METAGARISTA, Walker. 

 Metagarista triphaenoides. (Plate V. fig. 7.) 

 Metagarista triphaenoides, Waller, Cat. Lep. Het. i. p. 61. n. 1 (1854). 



Primaries pale brown, the base of costa and internal half of wing sprinkled with black 

 scales ; two or three black liturae across the basal half of the discoidal cell, two transverse 

 grey-centred elongate black spots with black-edged pale zones, one beyond the middle, the 

 other at the end of the cell ; two parallel waved discal lines, the nervures, and the intcr- 

 nervular folds black ; margin and fringe black, traversed by an undulated pale yellow line : 

 secondaries orange, with an interrupted black external border. Thorax pale brown ; abdomen 

 ochreous, banded with black. Wings below ochreous ; a diffused submarginal brown streak : 

 primaries with a black spot in the cell aud a second at the end of it. Body ochreous, venter 

 whitish. Expanse of wings 2 iuches 6 lines. 



Ashanti. 



We have a second smaller specimen in the Museum from Cape Coast. Phcegorista 

 leucomela of Hcrrich-Schaffer is a distinct but allied species. 



ZYGiENIDiE. 



ANTERIS, Wallengren. 



Anteris ampla. (Plate VI. fig. 12.) 



Zygsena ampla, Walker, Cat. Lep. Ilet. i. p. 101. n. 59 (1S54). 



Primaries dark brown, with live cream-coloured spots — one at the base, the other four 

 arranged in pairs across the middle and near the apex of the wing : secondaries ochreous the 



