592 



AGARISTID^. 



112. Metagarista maenas. 



JEgocera oncsnas, Herr.-ScliafF. Aussereur. Schmett. ff. 20, 21 (1853) ; Kirby» 

 Cat. Het. p. 41. 



Head orange ; palpi with a spot on side of 2nd joint and the 3rd 

 joint black, a brown stripe on frons and vertex of head ; thorax 

 olive-grey, the tegulse and patagia with rufous edges, and the femora 

 with rufous stripe ; pectus and legs orange, the fore femora above 

 and tarsi black ; abdomen orange, with black bands above. Fore 

 wing olive-grey, the costal and inner areas to the postmedial line 

 suffused with olive-brown and thicklj^ irrorated with chocolate 

 scales ; a sinuous chocolate antemedial line oblique from costa to 

 below the cell, where it is angled ; the orbicular, reniform, and an 

 elliptical spot below end of cell with chocolate outline and centre 

 with leaden line on it ; the veins beyond the cell with chocolate 

 streaks, also the interspaces of terminal area; a double slightly- 

 waved postmedial line strongly excurved from costa to below 3, 

 then incurved, the outer line with some leaden-grey on it on inner 

 area; a fine waved chocolate terminal line; cilia chocolate at tips. 

 Hind wing deep orange, with reddish-brown maculate terminal band 

 and \\'aved terminal line. Underside of fore wing orange, with 

 black spots in cell and on discocellulars and some dark suffusion 

 beyond the postmedial line. 



Hah. AsHANTi, 1 S ; Cape Coast (Niblett), 1 cJ ; Old Calabae 

 {Sampson), 1 $ ; Cameroons {Rutherford), 1 c? ? 1 $ • Eocp. 58- 

 64 millim. 



113. Metagarista triphsenoides. 



Metagarista triphcBnoides, Wlk. i. p. 61 (1854); Butl. 111. Het. B. M. i. 

 p. 12, pi. 5. f. 7; Karscb, Ent. Nacbr. xxi. p. 352, pi. ii. f. 8; Kirby, 

 Cat. Het. p. 41. 



Fig. 257. — Metagarista triphcBnoides, (^ . 



Head rufous ; thorax olive-grey, the tegulse and patagia edged 

 with rufous; pectus orange; fore legs rufous, the tarsi black; 

 abdomen black with white bands, the base orange, the dorsal crests 

 rufous, the ventral surface orange with black segmental lines. 

 Fore wing whitish, more or less completely tinged with olive-brown. 



