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Genus EusTEGASTA, Gcrst. 

 Eustcgnsta agril'idina, sp. ii. 



^. Black, iiitid, with dark grecu metallic reflections. 

 Head entirely of this colour except the lahruin, M-hich is 

 testaceous ; antenna; with five basal joints, black, nitid, 

 remainder fuscous. Pronotum of typical form, broadly 

 bordered laterally with orange. Teguiina with an orange 

 spot at base of discoidal area, another in apical third of 

 marginal area. Abdouicn above fuscous, broadly margined 

 with orange, beneath orange; supra-anal lamina short, 

 trigonal, fuscous ; subgcnital lamina small, asymmetrical, 

 without styles, black ; cerei pale testaceous. Front legs 

 orange ; mul and hind coxae black, outwardly bordered with 

 white, femora and tibiae orange, all the tarsi fuscous; front 

 ft. mora with two spines on anterior margin beneath; mid 

 femora with one spine on anterior margin, none on posterior 

 margin; hind femora with one spine on anterior margin, 

 three on posterior margin; formula of apical spines ,^,, {, /, ; 

 no genicular spine on front femora. 



Total length l.'J'o mm.; length of body 10 mm.; length 

 of tegmina lO'l mm. 



N^Kogo, French Congo (7/. Bunnet, 1903) ; one example 

 (I'aris Museum). 



The nearest ally of the species is E. metallica, Sauss. 



Eiisteyasta varieyuta, sp. n. 



J. Head testaceous; oceii)ut, a cordate patch on the 

 frons, the genie, two spots on the clypeus, and the palpi cas- 

 taneous or black ; antennne black, the six basal jonits nitid. 

 I'ronotum testaceous, the disk rufo-castaueous, with two 

 black longitudinal vittfe of irregular shape. Tegmina rufo- 

 castaneous ; mediastinal area and two thirds of marginal area 

 clear testaceous, the stripe at its termination expanding into 

 a s])ot that extends on to the outer part of discoidal Held ; 

 a humeral stripe; the anal vein and a longitudinal stripe in 

 the anal Held black, faint indications of a testaceous spot at 

 base of discoidal Held. Wings Havo-hyalinc ; median vein 

 bifurcate; ulnar vein with ten rami, four of which reach the 

 apex of the wing. Abdomen orange above and beneath ; 

 supra-anal lamina quadrate, posterior angles acute, not 

 emarginatc; subgcnital lamina asyuimclrical, with one style, 

 the right ; cerei orange. Coxje black, outwardly bordered 

 \nth testaceous; front femora castaneous, the other femora 



