JEGOCEKA. 601 



whitish stripes ; tegulse at sides and middle, patagia, and thorax 

 with whitish stripes, the patagia fringed with orange above ; pectus 

 and legs orange, the tibia? and tarsi banded black and whitish ; 

 abdomen orange, with slight segmental black lines, the ventral 

 surface whitish with sublateral black spots. Eore wing bright 

 rufous ; the costal and inner areas thickly irrorated with creamy 

 white ; a spot below base of costa followed by two, sometimes con- 

 joined, streaks in submcdian interspace to well beyond middle, with 

 a short curved line beyond its extremity and some irroration above 

 it ; a small antemedial spot in cell ; a somewhat quadrate spot in 

 end of cell ; an oblique sinuous postmedial band from below costa 

 to below^ vein 3, with its lower end incurved and with a curved line 

 beyond it ; a subterminal line incurved below vein 3 ; a leaden- 

 silvery streak above base of vein 1 ; a bar across middle of cell to 

 the submedian fascia ; a discoidal bar with crea m-coloured striga 

 before it, and a terminal series of small spots ; cilia yellow. Hind 

 wing orange, with discoidal rufous bar diffused outwards at lower 

 extremity ; a terminal band with sinuous inner edges, excised at 

 middle and angled inwards on vein 2. 



2 . Head, thorax, and fore wing much darker ; hind wing with 

 the markings black. 



Bab. Br. E. Africa, Machakos (Orawshai/), 1 $, Athi-ya-Mawe 

 ( Betton), 2 $ , Uganda, Mnani (Ansorge), i c^ type in Coll. Roth- 

 schild. E.V2). 42-48 millim. ■ 



124. ^gocera fervida. 



jEgocera fervlda, Wlk. i. 57 (1854); Butl. 111. Het. B. M. i. p. 12, pi. 5. 



f. 7 ; Kirby, Cat. Het. p. 37. 

 JEffocem triphcBnoides, Wllgrn. Wien. ent. Mon. iv. p. 38 (1860). 

 Mgocera fimbria, Moschl. Stett. ent. Zeit. xxxiii. ij. 354 (1872); Kirby, 



Cat. Het. p. 37. 



(S . Head and thorax black-brown ; palpi fringed with oi'ange ; 

 extremity of 2nd joint and base of 3rd white ; frons, vertex of 

 head, tegulai, and thorax with broad whitish stripe ; pectus and 

 legs orange, fore tibiae and tarsi with black rings ; abdomen orange, 

 with dorsal series of black spots. Eore wing deep chocolate-red, 

 sparsely irrorated with ochreous, especially on costal area ; a cream- 

 coloured fascia from base of costa to well beyond middle in sub- 

 median interspace ; an oblique fascia from costa beyond middle to 

 above vein 2 near termen ; a leaden spot below costa near base ; 

 an antemedial bar below the fascia and one beyond the fascia ; a 

 bar in middle of cell and another on discocellulars ; cilia cream- 

 coloured. Hind wing orange, with red discoidal spot and terminal 

 band excised at middle and angled inwards at vein 2 ; cilia orange. 



$ . Pore wing and markings of hind wing blacker. 



Hab. I^. Congo (Bentley), Coll. Rothschild ; jN"atal (Gueinzius), 

 1 d, 1 $, Y erulam (T^'imen), 1 S, Karkloof {Marshall), 1 d , 

 Malvern {Marshall), 1 S , Estcourt (Hutchinson), 1 $ ; C. Colony, 

 Fort Pitt {A, Smith), 1 6 . Exp., S 52, $ 58 millim. 



