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between vein 2 and apex. Hitid wing with the white semi- 

 hyaline markings conjoined, the basal white area with irregular 

 outer edge and four spots between vein 2 and apex, leaving a brown 

 mark beyond upper end of cell and an irregular terminal band very 

 narrow or obsolete between apex and vein 3. 



Bah. Cape Colony {Dre<je) ; Delagoa Bay {H. A. Junot). Exp., 

 S 38, $ 42 millim. 



262. Thyretes negus. 



Thyretes negus, Oberth. Et. Ent. iii. p. 31, pi. 3. f. 2 (1878); Kirby, Cat. 



Het. p. 103. 

 Thyretes phasma, Eutl. P. Z. S. 1896, p. 84(5. 



Head orange-yellow ; antennae brown, white at tips ; abdomen 

 brown, with some white hairs ; a white dorsal tuft at base and a 

 series of yellow spots. Fore wing brown, with a hyaline white 

 triangular spot in upper end of cell ; an elongate white patch below 

 the cell and vein 2 extending nearly to termen ; a triangular spot 

 above vein 2 and a series of five spots between vein 3 and apex. 

 Hind wing with conjoined hyaline white markings, the costal area 

 and a narrow terminal band running inwards along vein 2 brown. 



The type of negus from Abyssinia has the spot in upper angle of 

 cell of fore wing large, whilst i^liasma from Nyasaland and the 

 specimen from Sierra Leone have it small. 



Hah. Sieeea. Leone {C. B. Mitford) ; Nyasaland (Craiushai/), 

 type phasma ; Abyssinia. Exp., ^ 28, $ 38 millim. 



263. Thyretes monteiroi. 



Thyretes monfeiroi, Butl. Journ. Linn. See, Zool. xii. p. 350 (1876) ; Kirby, 

 Cat. Het. p. 103. 



2 . Head, tegulse, and patagia orange-yellow ; antennae brown ; 

 thorax brown ; abdomen brown, with six yellow bands and the 

 extremity yellow. Fore wing brown, with elongate semihyaline 

 yellow patch below the cell from near base to middle of vein 2 ; a 

 large spot above vein 2 and spot in upper end of cell ; a postmedial 

 spot above vein 6 and speck above vein 7 ; two conjoined spots between 

 veins 3 and 5. Hind wing with semihyaline patch in cell conjoined 

 to a yellower patch below base of cell ; a speck between veins 2 

 and 3 and two conjoined spots between veins 3 and 5. 



Hah. W. Africa, Ambriz (Mrs. Monteiro), 1 $ type. Exp. 

 30 millim. 



Genus THYROGONIA, nov. 



Type, T. efulensis. 



Proboscis absent ; palpi projecting about the length of head ; antennae of 

 female serrate ; mid and hind tibice with small terminal pairs of spurs. Fore 

 wing with vein 3 from well before angle of cell ; 4, 5 Irom angle ; 6 from 

 middle of discocellulars ; 7, 8, 9, 10 stalked; 11 from cell. Hind wing witli 

 vein 3 from long before angle of cell; 4, stalked, 5 obsoiescenL; 7 absent. 



