TUERTA. 627 



band, with diffused inner edge and curved outer edge ; cilia white 

 at tornus. Frontal prominence small at extremity. 



c? . Thorax and fore wing deep chocolate. 



Hah. Gambia, Bathurst ; Togoland ; Niger R., Onitsha, 1 $ 5 

 Cameroons, 1 (5 . Eccp. 60 millim. 



166. Tuerta semyron. 



Agarista semyron, Herr.-Schaff. Aussereur. Schmett. f. 24 (1850); Kirby, 



Cat. Het. p. 24. 

 Eusemia chrysospila, Wlk. xxxv. 1860 (1866). 



Black-brown ; palpi pale yellow at base and in front ; sides of 

 froDS and a spot on back of head yellow ; a rim behind eyes ; 

 tegulae at middle and shoulders and patagia with yellow stripes ; 

 metathorax with yellow spot ; pectus and legs orange ; fore and 

 mid tibiae with black spots, the tarsi banded with black ; abdomen 

 orange, with segmental black bands. Fore wing with pale silky 

 yellow point at base, antemedial and medial quadrate spots in cell; 

 a quadrate spot below end of cell and spots beyond the cell between 

 veins 8 and 5 and 5 and 3 ; cilia white at apex and tornus ; some 

 silvery-blue marks at base ; antemedial points in and below cell and 

 above vein 1 ; a discoidal bar and spots on inner margin beyond 

 middle and near tornus. Hind wing with pale silky yellow spot in 

 cell, conjoined to a quadrate spot below the cell ; a rounded spot 

 with waved outer edge beyond the cell between veins 7 and 3 ; cilia 

 white at apex and below vein 1. 



Hah. Sumatra ; Philippines, 1 S type chrysospila, Manilla 

 (J, J. Walker), 1 5 . E.vp., 6 44, $ 52 millim. 



*167. Tuerta dispar. 



Mgocera dispar, Eoths. Nov. Zool. iii. p. 43, pi. 15. ff. 27, 28 (1896). 



S . Black ; head, tegulae, and some hair on front of patagia 

 orange ; the 3rd joint of palpi and antennge black ; fore coxae and 

 stripes on femora and tibiae orange. Fore wing with a point at 

 base; an oblique yellowish-white wedge-shaped antemedial patch 

 from subcostal nervure to above vein 1 ; an oblique band beyond 

 the cell between veins 8 and 2 with sinuous edges, rounded at 

 extremities and with its lower extremity incurved ; a silvery-blue 

 bar in end of cell, a discoidal bar, a line beyond the postmedial 

 band, and a streak below vein 2. Hind wing with yellowish-white 

 wedge-shaped patch in, below, and beyond the cell. 



$ . Fore wing with hardly a trace of the antemedial patch ; hind 

 wing wholly black ; abdomen with the extremity of anal tuft 

 orange. 



Hah. E. Africa, Wassein {Mathews), type t in Coll. Rothschild. 

 Exp., 6 46, $ 56 millim. 



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