358 , APPENDIX. 
obliterata, strigaque pone medium angustiori et minus distincta ; 
corpore rufo, abdoniine magis fulvo. Expans. alar, antic, fere unc. 5. 
Habitat in Africa merid. (D. Buxton.) In Mus. Hopeiano. 
Family BoMBYClDiE. 
The family BombyciDjE appears to be rich in species of the sub- 
family LiMACODlDES, the caterpillars of which are clothed with short 
erect bristles, which are capable of inflicting poisonous wounds ; their 
cocoons are very solid and egg-shaped. Notwithstanding their defen- 
sive appendages they are subject to the attacks of parasites, and in the 
" Transactions of the Entomological Society," 1876, pi. 10, I have given 
the history of a curious dipterous insect, Syst?-opiis criidelis, which 
destroys individuals of one of the species of this group. Mr. Gates 
obtained a number of species, the majority of which are, however, in 
a very mutilated condition. Of one, which is a very showy insect and 
appears to be undescribed, I give the description below : — 
LiMACODES ARGENTIFERA, Westw. 
Laste pallido-viridis, alis anticis basi macula media fasciaque sub- 
apicali valde curvata e guttis argenteis, singulis guttis annulo brunneo 
cinctis, fascia externa e medio marginis postici versus apicem extensa 
at guttis sensim decrescentibus ; alis posticis abdomineque fulvis. 
Expans. alar, antic, unc. i^. 
Paiitoctcenice Geinmanti, Felder, Reise Novara, pi. 82, fig. 16, 
proxima. 
Habitat prope Gubuleweyo. 
A large species of this family, Jana Mariana, was collected by 
Mr. Gates at Tati, and is figured in Plate G, fig. 6. The type speci- 
men is in the British Museum from Congo. It belongs to the modern 
Genus Jana, of Boisduval, but was described by the late Adam White 
under the name oi Boinbyx Mariana (Ann. Nat. Hist. xii. 264). It is 
fawn-coloured, the fore wings with four slender oblique undulating 
brown bands. In the hind wings the bands are rather broader and 
more distinct, and there is a large purplish black spot at the base of 
the latter. The fore wings measure from 4 inches to 4I inches in 
expanse. 
The species of the remaining Lepidopterous families captured by 
Mr. Gates did not comprise any remarkable new species, and were 
for the most part in a much broken condition, rendering their deter- 
mination very difficult. 
Grder CGLEOPTERA. 
Family Cicindelid^. 
Gf tlie carnivorous ground beetles five genera of CicindeliDjE 
Manticora, Platychile, and Dromica, with Ophryodera and Bostricho- 
phortis, are peculiar to the central and eastern sub-i^egions of Africa. 
