-aSGOCERA. 



597 



•extremity of 3rd and antennse black ; tegulae with rufous and black 

 stripes ; edges of patagia and subdorsal stripes on thorax blue-black 

 aud orange ; tibia} and tarsi orange, banded with black and white ; 

 abdomen orange with dorsal series of black spots, the ventral 

 surface whitish. Fore wing dark brown, very thickly irrorated with 

 ochreous ; a metallic bhiish spot below costa near base ; a creamy- 

 white fascia edged with ferruginous red from base along median 

 nervure and below vein 6 ending in a point just before termen, its 

 upper edge indented by the silvery and blue orbicular and reniform 

 spots and its lower edge by a spot before the triangular expansion 

 at end of cell, which extends to submedian fold ; an orange -red 

 terminal line ; cilia blackish at base, whitish at tips. Hind wing 

 orange, with red discoidal spot and terminal band, the latter expand- 

 ing widely on apical area and below vein 2 ; a terminal orange 

 line ; the cilia fuscous at base, whitish at tips. Underside of fore 

 wing orange, the terminal area fuscous, indented by the wedge- 

 shaped spot which is orange. 



$ . Hind wing with the markings black. 



Hah. Abyssinia, Atbara, 2 (S ; Br. E. Africa, Wadelai (Emin)^ 

 5 (5* , Port Ogowe (Johmton), 1 $ ; Ashanti, 1 S ; Niger R., 

 Onitsha, 1 cT , 1 $ , Sapele (Sampson), 1 c? ; Lagos {Stralian), 1 S , 

 1 2 ; Congo, 2 c? , 2 $ ; Angola, Kinsembo, ] 2 . Exp. 38-44 

 millim. 



119. -ffigocera venulia. 



Noctua vemdia, Cram. Pap. Exot. ii. pi. 165, D (1777); Boisd. Mon. Zyg. 

 p. 13, pi. 1. f. 3 ; Moore, Lep. Ceyl. ii. p. 32, pi. 94. f. 1 ; Hmpsn. 

 Moths Ind. ii. p. 158 ; Kirby, Cat. Het. p. 36. 



Head white ; palpi with patch of brown and black at side of 

 2nd joint, the extremity of ^rd joint black; sides of frons and 

 antennae black ; thorax white, with brown stripes on tegulae, the 

 €dge8 of patagia and subdorsal stripes on thorax blackish and orange; 



Pig. 261. — JEgocera venulia, (^ . 

 (From Moths Ind. vol. ii.) 



tibiae, and tarsi orange, banded with black and white; abdomen 

 orange, with dorsal series of black spots, the ventral surface whitish. 

 Fore wing dark brown thickly irrorated with ochreous ; a creamy- 

 white fascia from base through the cell to near termen below vein 6, 



