1898.] OF THE SUBFAMILX PTKAUSTIIf.?;. 629 



with fuscous. Fore wing with the basal area fuscous spotted with 

 orange-red, its outer edge obliquely curved and with traces of a 

 black line ; an oblique black striga on costa ; the rest of wing dull 

 purpUsh ; a black discocellular lunule with bidentate yeUow spot 

 edged by red on its outer side ; the postmedial black line angled 

 outwards bslow costa and at vein 4, then retracted to below end 

 of cell and excurved again, and with a series of red-edged yellow 

 spots on its outer edge; a black marginal line; cilia chequered 

 black and yellow. Hind wing with the basal and inner areas pale 

 yellow ; a red spot below the cell and streak on vein 1 ; the apical 

 third of wing purpHsh, defined on inner side by a red line and 

 black point, and crossed by a black postmedial line with red and 

 yellow on its outer edge and tridentate beyond lower angle of cell ; 

 a fine black marginal line ; ciha yellow, dark at apex and middle. 



Hah, Humboldt Bay, N. Guinea (Doherty), Exp. 24 mm. Type 

 in Coll. Eothschild. 



(6)tAGE0TEEA FUMOSA, D. sp. 



Differs from effertalis in the male having a white patch on anal 

 segment above. Fore wing with the outer edge of basal area more 

 erect and slightly angled inwards on vein 1 ; a black discocellular 

 lunule instead of the yellow and orange patch. Hind wing with 

 smaller basal yellow patch with no orange on it. 



Hah. Accra ; Aburi, W. Africa. Exiy., S 26, $ 20 mm. 



(7)tAGEOTEBA CITEIKA, n. Sp. 



Differs from fumosa in the anal segment of abdomen being dark. 

 Fore wing with a small orange speck beyond the dark disco- 

 cellular line ; the outer part of costa with an orange fascia and 

 some orange beyond the postmedial line, which is much less re- 

 tracted at vein 2. Hind wing ^"ith straight prominent black post- 

 medial line between veins 7 and 2, with orange-red on its outer 

 edge. 



Hab. Accra, W. Africa. EwjJ' 18 mm. 



(8)tAGEOTEBA BASLsroTATA Hmpsn. 111. Het, viii. p. 137, pi. 155. 

 f. 13. India, Ceylon, & Burma. 



(9)tAGE0TEBA DisciNOTATA Swinh. A. M. N. H. (6) xiv. p. 207. 



N.E. India. 

 „ griseola Warr. A. M. N. H. (6) xvii. p. 139. 



(10)*AgEOTEEA IGIfEPICTA, n. sp. 



2 . Head, thorax, and abdomen yellow variegated with fiery red ; 

 antennae dark ; abdomen with shght dorsal segmental black lines 

 and the extremity purpUsh ; wings pale purplish. Fore wing with 

 the basal area yellow variegated with fiery red and with traces of 

 subbasal dark line and waved antemedial line ; a large somewhat 

 bidentate yellow-and-red patch beyond the cell defined by dark 

 scales, and with some diffused brown with two red points on it 

 below it ; a minutely crenulate postmedial line angled below costa 



