258 IMr. G. T. Bet hune- Baker on 



Lasiocampidge. 

 Taragama rufaria^ sp. n. 



$ . Palpi rufous below, with the extremities ot hairs tipped 

 with deep yellow, grey above ; head and collar grey ; an- 

 tenna rufous ; thorax rufous, with patagise deep rusty red, 

 edged finely with grey ; abdomen rufous on the dorsum, 

 ventral surface grey. Primaries dark rufous grey, with a 

 small wiiite basal spot, followed by an oblong spot or broad 

 dash of orange rusty red, intersected near its outer edge by 

 the fine white antemedian line, which line is nearly erect to 

 the cell, where it is interrupted, and is continued at the end 

 of the cell upwards in a slight curve to the costa. In the 

 male this line might be construed into an antemedian and 

 median line on account of the difference of the position of the 

 two parts, but the female insect shows it to be one, very 

 strongly angled outwards. Postmedian line fine, white, 

 strongly angled outwards in the fold to above vein 3, from 

 where it is angled and waved to the costa not far from the 

 apex ; a small rusty orange-red patch at tlie end of the cell, 

 beyond which the wing is dark reddish brown to the post- 

 median line between vein 3 and the costa; fringes grey. 

 Secondaries uniform rufous brown, with pale grey fringes. 



$ . Like the male, but with the abdomen dirty creamy 

 grey, the primaries paler and redder, the white lines more 

 distinct, and a subterminal irregular row of obscure inter- 

 nervular red spots just outside white postmedian line : 

 secondaries pale pinkish buff, with an obscure, white, trans- 

 verse, oblique baud. 



Expanse, $ 42, ? 82 mm. 



Hab. Fort Jameson, N.E. Rhodesia. 



Types in my collection. 



Near T. polydora, Druce. 



Metanastriajamesoni, sp. n. 



(J . Palpi very dark purplish brown, nearly blackish ; head 

 chocolate-brown ; antennae greyish brown, pectinations very 

 long, tapering gradually to the tip; thorax rich chocolate- 

 brown, with a small cream-coloured very short tuft on the 

 metathorax, so short as to appear little more tlian a spot ; 

 abdomen yellowish cream-colour, the breast and the whole 

 ventral surface chocolate-brown. Primaries rich chocolate- 

 brown, with a somewhat pale, waved, oblique postmedial 

 line, the area on the basal side of this line being much daiker 

 than that beyond ; a whitish dot in the cell : secondaries 



