HESPAGAKISTA. 631 



> 172. Hespagarista rendalli. 



Metagarista rendalli, Roths. Nov. Zool. iii. p. 97 (1896). 



Head and thorax black ; tegulse orange ; abdomen with the first 

 two segments black and orange, the next three orange, the terminal 

 segments and ventral surface black, the latter with orange spots. 



Fig. 277. — Hespagarista rendalli, (S . \. 



Fore wing black, with oblique somewhat triangular orange ante- 

 medial patch extending from below costa to or to below vein 1 ; 

 a rounded spot varying in size in end of cell ; an oblique somewhat 

 elliptical patch beyond the cell from below costa to vein 2 ; a 

 silvery-blue spot below base of costa, a bar in middle of cell, a 

 discoidal bar, an oblique streak below vein 2 with a spot below it 

 and two conjoined subapical spots. Hind wing orange, with broad 

 terminal black band, its inner edge angled inwards on vein 2. 



Hab. German E. Africa, Tanganyika Plateau, Kambole, 1 $ , 

 Stevenson Rd. (Dewar), 5 $ , Viraun Mt. (Oraiushay), 1 cJ; Br. C. 

 Africa, Zomba, type rendalli in Coll. Rothschild. Exp., c? 42, 

 2 50 millim. 



*173. Hespagarista inclusa. (Plate LIII. fig. 3.) 



Pristoceraa inclusa, Karsch, Ent. Nachr. 1895, p. 357, pi. ii. f. 5. 



2 . Head and thorax black ; tegulae orange ; abdomen orange, 

 with slight segmental lines and the extremity black, the ventral 

 surface black with orange spots. Fore wing black, with large 

 orange subbasal patch from below costa to vein 1, expanding in 

 submedian interspace and extending to just beyond middle, where 

 it extends to just below vein 1 ; an elliptical spot in end of cell ; a 

 large postmedial patch from below costa to below vein 2, rounded 

 at extremities, its inner edge indented at vein 3 and its outer edge 

 strongly excurved to near tornus ; a blue spot at base, a bar across 

 cell ; a discoidal bar and postmedial spots on veins 2 and 1. Hind 

 wing orange, with terminal rather narrow black band with crenu- 

 late inner edge and expanding on apical and tornal areas. 



Hab, W. Africa, Lr. Guinea ; Angola, Kuhiriri R. {Penrice\ in 

 Coll. Rothschild. Eocp. 50 millim. 



