644 AGAEISTID^. 



(S . With the lateral anal tufts orange ; fore wing with the band 

 less bent inwards towards costa ; hind wing with the band rather 

 broader and not angled. 



Hah. Old Calabar, type f $ angustifascia in Coll. Rothschild, 

 Cape Coast ; 1 $ without locality. Etjj., J 54, 2 ^^ millim. 



192. Massaga monteirona. (Plate LIY. fig. 6.) 



Massaga monteirona, Butl. Cist. Ent. i. p. 216 (1874) ; Kirby, Cat. Het. 



p. 33. 

 Eusemia metallica, Mab. Bull. Soc. Zool. Fr. iii. p. 88 (1878) ; Kirby, Cat. 



Het. p. 33. 



(S , Black shot with blue ; head, tegulae, pectus in front, fore 

 coxae, and femora crimson; 3rd joint of palpi, frontal prominence, 

 and antenucfi black ; abdomen with ventral yellow band on terminal 

 segment and oblique bands ou underside of claspers. Fore wing 

 with the veins streaked with metallic blue-green ; a diffused 

 obsolescent metallic greenish band just beyond the cell. Hind wing 

 more distinctly shot with blue, and with a postmedial series of short 

 streaks on the veins ; underside with the streaks on the veins 

 greenish yellow and extending more towards both base and termen, 

 on inner area becoming a large patch extending to near tornus. 



Hah. Congo ; Angola, Ambriz, Cabinda {Mrs. Monteiro), 2 J 

 type. Ex]j. 60 millim. 



Genus MASSAGIDIA, nov. 



Type, M. hesparia. 



Proboscis fully developed ; palpi with the 2nd joint obliquely upturned and 

 fringed with hair, the 3rd porrect, short in male, long in female ; frons with 

 truncate conical prominence with raised rim at extremity ; antennae nearly 

 simple, distinctly dilated towards extremity ; hind tibiae fringed with hair above; 

 abdomen smoothly scaled. Fore wing with vein 3 from close to angle of cell ; 

 5 from well above angle, the discocellulars incurved above it ; 6 Irom upper 

 angle; 9 from 10 anastomosing with 8 to form the areole, 7 from beyond the 

 areole ; 11 from cell. Hind wing with vein 2 from well before angle of cell; 

 3, 4 from angle ; 5 obsolescent from middle of discocellulars; 6, 7 from upper 

 angle. 



193. Massagidia hesparia. 



Geomeira hesparia, Cram. Pap. Exot. i. pi. 56, C (1775); Kirby,- Cat. Het. 



p. 33. 

 Massaga delicia, Butl. P. Z. S. 1868, p. 224, pi. 17. f. 2, c? ; Kirby, Cat. 



Het. p. 33. 

 Massaga demena, Druce, A. M. N. H. (6) xiv. p. 23 (1894), $ . 



c^ . Head, tegulae, fore cox8e,and femora crimson ; 3rd joint of palpi, 

 frontal prominence, and antennae black ; abdomen with a segmental 

 band on terminal segment and the anal tuft crimson ; wings shot 

 with brilliant blue. Fore wing with the veins streaked with 

 metallic blue ; a medial white band not quite reaching costa, its 

 inner edge slightly curved, its outer strongly dilated and angled 

 outwards beyond lower angle of cell ; cilia white at apex. Hind 



