1910.] MOTHS FROM NORTHERN RHODESIA. 399 



^Egocera teicolora B. Baker, A. M. 1ST. H. (8) iii. p. 434 (1909). 

 Congo, Katanga, Kambove ; N.E. Rhodesia, Kapopo. 



^Egocera dispar Roths. Nov. Zool. iii. p. 43. pi. 15. ff. 27, 28 

 (1896). 



Congo, Katanga, Kambove. 



Lophonotidia nocturna Hmpsn. Cat. Lep. Phal. B. M. iii 

 p. 617(1901). 



N.E. Rhodesia, E. Luangwa distr. 



Genus Hoplarista, nov. 



Type, H. Kazmaplaga. 



Proboscis fully developed ; palpi with the 2nd joint obliquely 

 upturned and moderately fringed with hair, the 3rd porrect, 

 rather long and somewhat dilated at extremity ; frons with long 

 flattened corneous process at middle, bifid at extremity, and 

 corneous plate below it excised in front ; eyes large, round ; 

 antennae slightly dilated towards extremity ; thorax clothed with 

 hair and scales mixed, the metathorax with spreading crest ; 

 tibia? moderately fringed with hair ; abdomen with hairy crest at 

 base only. Fore wing with the apex rounded, the termen 

 evenly curved and not crenulate : veins 3 and 5 from near angle 

 of cell ; 6 from upper angle ; 9 from 1 anastomosing with 8 to 

 form theareole; 11 from cell. Hing wing with veins 3,4 from 

 angle of cell ; 5 obsolescent from middle of discocellulars ; 6,7 

 from upper angle ; 8 anastomosing with the cell near base only. 



Hoplarista h^emaplaga, sp. n. (PL XXXVI. fig. 24.) 



<5 . Head and thorax dark chocolate-brown mixed with pale 

 yellow and some orange ; frons with lateral yellowish white spots 

 above ; pectus orange ; legs banded black and orange ; abdomen 

 banded black and orange, the ventral surface dark brown with 

 series of yellow bars. Fore wing dark chocolate- brown irrorated 

 with silvery blue and some yellow scales ; a triangular yellow 

 antemedial patch in cell with elongate blood-red patch below it, 

 connected with the oblique yellow medial band extending from 

 below costa to submedian fold, edged by blood-red at sides, its 

 inner edge slightly angled inwards at median nervure and sub- 

 median fold and its outer edge strongly dilated below; a post- 

 medial yellow patch from below costa to vein 2, rounded above 

 and its lower extremity pointed and bent inwards. Hind wing 

 deep orange ; a slight black discoidal lunule ; a black-brown ter- 

 minal band, its inner edge slightly incurved at cliscal fold and 

 strongly at vein 2 ; a small yellow spot on termen at submedian 

 fold. Underside of fore wing yellow, the costa black-brown 

 except towards base, a black-brown and red spot in middle of 

 cell with red spot below it in submedian interspace, a large 



