NEONEGETA. 619 



white ; a wedge-shaped brown band with a cupreous gloss from 

 costa to middle of inner margin, its inner edge curved and extending 

 to base of costa, its outer edge oblique ; a terminal brown band with 

 a cupreous gloss, broad at costa, narrowing to tornus, its inner edge 

 curved. Hind wing white tinged with brown, the terminal area 

 suffused with brown except towards tornus ; the underside white, 

 the termen tinged with brown from apex to vein 4. 



2 . Hind wing entirely suffused with brown. 



Hab. Gambia {Sir G. Carter), type t d in Coll. Druce. Exj). 

 20 millim. 



7049. Neonegeta purpurea, n. sp. (Plate CXC. fig. 14.) 



Head yellowish white; palpi, lower part of frons, and antenna? 

 brown ; thorax yellowish white, the tegulse and metathorax brown 

 with a leaden-grey gloss ; fore and mid tibiae and tarsi tinged with 

 brown ; abdomen brown Avith the crests, slight segmental lines, and 

 the ventral surface yellowish white. Pore wing black-brown with 

 a brilliant purple gloss ; the basal area yellowish white oblicjuely 

 from base of costa to inner margin before middle ; a yellowish 

 white postmedial band expanding somewhat at costa and inner 

 margin. Hind wing brown with a cupreous gloss ; cilia whitish at 

 tips. Underside of fore wing black-brown with postmedial ochreous 

 mark on costa ; hind wing brown with diffused ochreous white 

 postmedial band from apical part of costa to lower angle of cell. 



Hub. Gold Coast, Bibianaha {Spurrell), 1 $ ; S. Nigeria, Ilesha 

 (Humfrey), 1 J , 4 $ type. Exj). 24 millim. 



7050. Neonegeta trigonica. 



Westermannia trigonica, Hmpsn. A. M. N. H. (7) xti. p. 590 (1905). 



cJ . Head, thorax, and abdomen pale brown ; palpi greyish in 

 front, blackish at sides ; pectus and legs greyish ; abdomen greyish 

 at base, the ventral surface greyish with dark patch at middle. 



Fig. 2i8. — Neonegeta trigonica, S . \. 



Fore wing with the basal area whitish tinged with brown ; a large 

 triangular golden bronze patch extending on costa from near base 

 to beyond middle, its apex at middle of inner margin, defined by 



