iEGOCERA. ASTEROPETES. 605 



131. ^gocera obrysos. (Plate LIII. fig. 2.) 



Eusemia obrysos, Mab. Bull. Soe. Zool. Fr. iii. p. 89 (1878) ; Kirbj, Oat. 

 Het. p. 37. 



$ . Head black ; palpi at base and extremity of 2nd joint orange ; 

 frons with lateral orange spots below the prominence, a band above 

 it and another on vertex of head ; tegulae black, orange at sides 

 and middle ; thorax chocolate strongly irrorated with white ; pectus 

 and legs orange, the fore and mid tibiae banded with black, the 

 tarsi rufous irrorated with white; abdomen orange. Fore wing 

 chocolate, strongly irrorated with white and black ; a white band 

 with sinuous edges across end of cell from subcostal nervure to sub- 

 median fold ; a similar band beyond the cell between veins 8 and .^ ; 

 cilia white towards apex and tornus. Hind wing orange, with 

 terminal black band very wide at costa, narrowing to tornus, its^ 

 inner edge angled inwards on vein 2 ; cilia white at apex and 

 middle. 



Hah. Madagascar, Betsileo (Oowan), 1 $ . Exp. 52 millim. 



*i32. ^gocera coryndoni. (Plate LIII. fig. 14.) 



Mgocera coryndoni, Roths. Nov. Zool. iii. p. 96 (1896). 

 Mgoceropsis se;parata, Weymer, Berl. ent. Zeit. 1896, p. 87. 



$ . Head and tegulse yellow, the 1st and 2nd joints of palpi 

 with black spots, the 3rd joint black with a few yellow scales ; 

 black spots on frons, between antennae, and two on vertex of head ; 

 antennae black, with white scales above ; tegulae with seven black 

 spots ; patagia with whitish and chocolate hair and black spot on 

 shoulders ; mesothorax grey, metathorax orange ; pectus and legs 

 orange, tore coxae grey behind, the tarsi black and orange ; abdomen 

 orange, with the dorsal crests, anal tuft, and ventral bands on 

 terminal segments black. Fore wing chocolate, the basal and 

 terminal areas tinged with grey, the disk with ochreous ; a medial 

 white band from below costa to submedian fold expanding below, 

 and a similar band beyond the cell between veins 8 and 3, each 

 patch with an olive line round it with silvery scales at its edges ; 

 silvery spots in middle of cell above and below medial band and a 

 discoidal bar; cilia grey. Hind wing orange, with terminal black 

 band 5 millim. in width at vein 7, 1^ at vein 2 ; cilia white mixed 

 with black. 



Hah. Germ. E. Africa, Tanga ; Zambesi, Loangwa R. {Coryndon), 

 Exp. 54 millim. This species is unknown to me, the types are 

 lost ; figured from a drawing sent me by Herr "Weymer from his 

 type separata. 



Genus ASTEROPETES, nov. 



Type, A. noctuina. 



Proboscis fully developed ; palpi upturned, fringed with long hair, the 3rd 

 joint long, naked, dilated at extremity and porrect ; frons with beak-like tri- 

 angular prominence ; head and thorax clothed with long hair ; antennae almost 

 simple, hardly dilated beyond middle ; tibiae fringed with long hair ; abdomea 



