OMPH ALOCEPS. — HESPAGARISTA. 



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oblique yellow band from below costa just beyond middle to above 

 tornus, with rather sinuous edges. Hind wing with oblique golden- 



Fig. 275. — Omphaloceps triangularis, (S . J. 



yellow triangular patch from basal half of costa to near termen at 

 vein 2, its costal area whitish. 



Hab. Cameroons, Ogove E,., 2 c? , 1 $ . Ewp., c? 52, $ 56 millim. 



Genus HESPAGARISTA. 



Wlk. i. p. 13(1854) 



Type. 



echione. 



Proboscis fully developed ; palpi oblique, clothed with longhair, the 3rd joint 

 short and extending to beyond frons, which has a truncate conical prominence 

 with raised rim at extremity ; antennae nearly simple and strongly dilated 

 towards extremity ; head, thorax, femora, and abdomen clothed with rough 

 hair ; tibias with the spurs moderate. Fore wing with veins 3 and 5 from close 

 to angle of cell ; 6 from upper angle ; 9 from 10 anastomosing with 8 to form 

 the areole ; 11 free. Hind wing with veins 3, 4 from angle of cell ; 5 obso- 

 lescent from middle of discocellulars ; 6, 7 from upper angle. 



Sect. I. Frons with the truncate prominence large ; abdomen of male with the 

 claspers tufted with very long hair above. 



A. Thorax orange echione. 



B. TegulsQ and patagia only orange caudata. 



170. Hespagarista echione. 



Agarista echione, Boisd. Voy. Deleg. ii, p. 595 (1847); Angas, Kaffirs 



Illustrated, pi. 30. f. 10 ; Kirby, Cat. Het. p. 21. 

 Hespagarista echione, yar.funebris, Roths. Nov. Zool. iii. p. 44 (1896). 

 Hespagarista interlecta, Wlk. i. p. 14 (1854). 

 Eusemia novemmaculata, Mab. Ann. Soc. Ent. Fr. (6) x. p. 54 ; id. Nov. 



Lep. i. p. 56, pi. 9. f. 1 ; Kirby, Oat. Het. pp. 25, 897. 



Black; 1st and 2nd joints of palpi with white points at extremity; 

 back of head and thorax above orange ; tibiae with white points ; 

 abdomen with lateral and sublateral series of white points. Fore 

 wing with ochreous point at base ; subbasal points below costa and 

 above vein 1 ; a spot in middle of cell and discoidal bar ; a large 

 rounded spot below middle of cell ; large spots beyond upper and 

 lower angles of cell and a spot above tornus ; some silvery-blue 

 scales below the cell near base ; an antemedial line, slightly angled 

 on median nervure ; an oblique bar across end of cell ; a postmedial 



