604 



AGAKTSTID^.. 



iDav, and traces of a line beyond the postmedial band ; cilia yellow. 

 Hind wing orange ; the inner area suffused with red ; a discoidal 

 xed bar conjoined to the inner area and at vein 2 to the broad 

 terminal band, which is excised at middle; cilia orange. 



Hah. Bk. E. Africa {Scott-Elliot)^ 1 S ^'JV^^^- E.vp- 38 millim. 



129. ^gocera abyssinica, n. sp. (Plate LIV. fig. 14.) 



S . Bright rufous ; palpi fringed with orange, the extremity of 

 2nd joint, the base of 3rd, and a broad stripe on frons and vertex 

 of head cream-colour ; tegulae and thorax with dorsal cream-coloured 

 stripe ; pectus and legs yellowish, the fore tibiae and tarsi with dark 

 rings ; abdomen orange, with dorsal and lateral black bands. Fore 

 wing with cream-coloured spot below base of costa, followed by two 

 elongate spots, then a rounded spot, then a wedge-shaped spot in 

 submedian interspace ; a rounded spot in end of cell ; a slightly 

 oblique band beyond the cell from below costa to below vein 3 with 

 its lower extremity incurved ; a leaden point below costa near base, 

 antemedial points in cell and above vein 1, a discoidal bar, and traces 

 of a line beyond the postmedial band ; cilia yellow. Hind wing 

 yellow ; the inner area rufous ; a broad discoidal bar conjoined to 

 the inner area and the broad terminal band at vein 2 ; cilia yellow. 



$ . Black-brown. 



Hah, AjiYssiNiA, Atbara, 1 cT , 1 $ type. Ex])., ^ 38, 2 44 

 millim. 



130. .ffigocera rubida. 



jEffocera rubida, Fekl. Eeis. Nov. pi. 107. f. 14 (1874^; Kirby, Cat. Het. 

 p. 37. 



d . Head cream-coloured, with a black stripe on frons and vertex ; 

 palpi with rufous patch on 2nd joint, which is fringed with orange, 

 the extremity of 3rd joint black ; thorax rufous and black, with 

 cream-coloured stripes on tegulae, patagia, and vertex ; pectus and 

 legs orange, fore and mid tibisB and tarsi banded with black ; abdo- 

 men orange, with dorsal series of black spots. Pore wing yellow, 

 the inner area ferruginous red ; a black streak on base of costa ; a 

 subbasal leaden and black spot below costa ; an oblique antemedial 

 black line from costa to median nervure, with another just beyond 

 it from subcostal nervure to inner margin ; a quadrate ferruginous 

 spot in middle of cell, conjoined on median nervure to a patch in 

 end of cell with purplish-silvery centres, having an elliptical black- 

 edged yellow spot between them and a large reniform patch beyond 

 the cell before the postmedial black line, which is slightly angled 

 inwards below vein 6 and below vein 3 is strongly bent inwards ; the 

 terminal area strongly irrorated with red and with an ill-defined 

 red line parallel to the postmedial line, and traces of a diffused sub- 

 terminal line : cilia yellow. Hind wing orange ; the basal inner 

 area suffused with red : a broad red discoidal bar, and a broad ter- 

 minal band angled inwards below vein 2 ; cilia orange. 



Hah. Eritrea, Bogos; Abyssinia, Atbara, 1 J. Exp. 48 

 millim. 



