28 Lord Walsingham's monograph of the genera 



"Dark purplish cupreous. Head beneath and sides of the 

 thorax pale gilded yellow. Abdomen gilded red, with a purplish 

 cupreous spot near the base, which is gilded ; a purplish cupreous 

 subapical band ; tip and under side gilded. Hind wings gilded ; 

 costa and fringe red, the latter blackish cupreous towards the tip. 

 Length of the body, 2f lines ; of the wings, 5 lines (= 12 mm.). 



" E. divisella, var. ? 



" a. Port Natal. From M. Gueinzius' collection, 

 b. South Africa. From Mr. Argent's collection." 



Type, <? 2 , B. M. 



[PL vi., fig. 11.] 

 carteri, n. s. 



Alae anticse unicolores, subnitidae, viride-purpuriae, ciliis fuscis. 

 Alae posticae cupreae, ciliis ante medium coccineis, post medium 

 fuscis. Abdomine coccineo, macula basali purpureo, apicali nigro. 

 Capite, antennis, thorace, et tibiis purpureo-fuscis. 



Antenna purplish fuscous. Palpi purplish fuscous, yellowish 

 at the base externally. Head purplish fuscous. Thorax greenish, 

 or purplish fuscous above, bright ochreous beneath. Fore wings 

 glossy green, or purplish; cilia fuscous. Under side brownish 

 fuscous, tinged with purplish, a slight ochreous streak from the 

 base reaching nearly half-way along the costal margin. Hind 

 wings coppery brown ; cilia before the middle carmine, beyond it 

 dark fuscous. Under side carmine ; cilia fuscous, except at the 

 base of the abdominal margin. Abdomen brilliant carmine, tinged 

 with ochreous about the basal portion, a patch at the base rich 

 purple, and the anal segments black fringed with carmine. Under 

 side ochreous. Legs dark purplish fuscous. Exp. al. 12 mm. 



Hob. Bathurst (Mr. G. T. Carter). 



Type, $ , Mus. Wlsm. 



One of my three specimens from Bathurst, collected 

 by Mr. G. T. Carter, has the anal segments entirely 

 carmine, without any black whatever. 



[PL vi., fig. 12.] 



derogatella, Wlk., Cat. Lp. Ins. B. M., XXIX., 834 



(1864).* 



"<^. Cuprea ; caput subtus pectorisque latera aurato-flava ; 

 abdomen aurato-flavum, apice nigrum ; alae posticae auratae. 



* =fuscipennis, Z., var. 6. (ante, pp. 26 7). 



