630 



AGARISTIDiE. 



slightly sinuous line bent inwards to costa. Hind wing with 

 ochreous patches in and below cell and somewhat wedge-shaped 

 spots beyond the cell between veins 2 and 6 ; cilia sometimes white 

 at apex. 



Fig. 276. — Hespagarista 



Ab. 1. funehris. Palpi, tibiae, and abdomen without white points; 

 fore wing with all the ochreous markings reduced, there being 

 hardly a trace of the basal spots or the large spot below the cell ; 

 hind wing wholly black. 



Hah. E. Afeica, Usambara (Legros), 1 $ ; Delagoa Bay (Mrs. 

 Monteiro, KenncJc), 2 c? , 2 $ ; Zululand (Angas), 1 S ; Natal 

 (Gueinzius), 1 d type interlecta, Malvern (IlarsJiall), 1 J. 



E.vp. 54 millim. 



*171. Hespagarista caudata. 



Agarista caudata, Dew. Mitth, Miinch. Ent. Ver. iii. p. 30, pi. i. ff. 3, 3 a 

 ■(1879) ; Kirby, Cat. Het. p. 21. 



c? . Black ; tegulse and patagia orange ; palpi and tibisB with 

 white points ; abdomen with lateral and sublateral series of white 

 points. Pore wing with basal and subbasal ochreous points ; a 

 sinuous silvery-blue antemedial line, with ochreous strigse beyond 

 it above and below vein 1 ; an elliptical spot in cell, with point 

 above it on costa ; a quadrate spot below middle of cell conjoined to 

 a spot below vein 1 ; a silvery-blue spot in end of cell and discoidal 

 ochreous spot ; a sinuous silvery-blue postmedial line, with ochreous 

 point on costa, and four elongate ochreous spots beyond it, the spot 

 on median nervules forked outwardly ; cilia white at apex. Hind 

 wing with broad ochreous band from below middle of costa to near 

 inner margin above tornus, interrupted by the dark veins. 



Hah. W. Africa, Guinea. Exp. 46 millim. This species is 

 unknown to me. 



Sect. II. Frons with the truncate prominence very small ; abdomen of male 

 with the claspei'3 clothed with short hair. 



A. Abdomen with the last three segments black rendallL 



B. Abdomen black at extremity only inclusa. 



