36 /EGERID/E. 



GENUS NIGERIA. Fabr. : Illiger's Mag., vi. p. 287 (1807). 



141. Algeria pensilis. n. sp. 



Antennas, palpi, head and thorax above blackish brown, abdomen 

 purple with blue and green reflections. Antennas and palpi below 

 yellow, a ring of yellow hairs behind the head, some yellow on each 

 side of the thorax, anal tuft long, brown mixed with some yellow 

 hairs, wings limpid with black veins, fore-wings with a costal uniform 

 black band, an outer marginal band deepest in its centre and with 

 its inner margin curved corresponding nearly to the apical shape 

 of the wing, a thick black line closing the cell ; hind-wing with the 

 costa yellow from the base half way and then black, cilia of both 

 wings black. 



Below, pectus and sides of thorax yellow, abdomen black marked 

 with yellow, legs black above, yellow beneath. 



Expanse of wings inch, 



a. Sula (type). (Wallace). 



Has a much narrower outer marginal band than A. auriplena, 

 with its inner border differently shaped, and is differently marked 

 on the body. 



142. Algeria auriplena. 



SEgeria auriplena. Walker: xxxi. 13 (1864). 

 a. N. Guinea (type). (Wallace). 



143. Algeria clavioornis. 



ALgeria clavicomis. Walker: xxxi. 14 (1864). 

 a. Batchian (type). (Wallace). 



144. Algeria chalybea. 



sEgeria chalybea. Walker : Journ. Linn. Soc., Lond., vi. 82 (1862). 



xxxi. 13 (1864). 



a. Sarawak (type). (Wallace). 



GENUS BALAT-SJA. Walker: xxxi. 110(1864). 



145. Balataea homotona. n. sp. : PI. n. f. 18. 



<5 Antennas, and head black, palpi above black, last joint entirely 

 black, remainder ochreous beneath, a space ochreous on the head 

 between the antennae, a band behind the eye of ochreous hairs 

 followed by some white scales, thorax and abdomen greenish 

 brown speckled with minute grey atoms, abdomen with basal and 

 medial bands above, abdomen extending far beyond the hind-wings 

 with a long anal tuft composed of red and brown hairs with some 

 white at their base; fore- wing greenish brown, costal edge and a 



